Software Quotes
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I actually am fairly uncomfortable about it, even if our firm stipulation was that they cannot tell us what to do. We are simply doing what we do anyways - securing software - and they have no say in the matter. I try to convince myself that our grant means a half of a cruise missile doesn't get built.
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The difference between the best worker on computer hardware and the average may be 2 to 1, if you're lucky. With automobiles, maybe 2 to 1. But in software, it's at least 25 to 1. The difference between the average programmer and a great one is at least that. The secret of my success is that we have gone to exceptional lengths to hire the best people in the world. And when you're in a field where the dynamic range is 25 to 1, boy, does it pay off.
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Software entities (classes, modules, functions, etc.) should be open for extension, but closed for modification.
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There are no significant bugs in our released software that any significant number of users want fixed.
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We are still in the infancy of naming what is really happening on software development projects.
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SAP is becoming the standard for business software. Oracle is in a state of chaos.
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I can direct dial today a man my parents warred with. They wanted to kill him, I want to sell software to him.
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Software is a great combination between artistry and engineering.
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I was trying to figure out what to do next, I'd been accumulating ideas for productivity tools - software people could use every day, particularly to help organize their lives.
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In the next 10 years, data science and software will do more for medicine than all of the biological sciences together.
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Software is getting slower more rapidly than hardware becomes faster.
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The only people who have anything to fear from free software are those whose products are worth even less.
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Analytical software enables you to shift human resources from rote data collection to value-added customer service and support where the human touch makes a profound difference.
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However, writing software without defects is not sufficient. In my experience, it is at least as difficult to write software that is safe - that is, software that behaves reasonably under adverse conditions.
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Beauty is more important in computing than anywhere else in technology because software is so complicated. Beauty is the ultimate defense against complexity. ... The geniuses of the computer field, on the the other hand, are the people with the keenest aesthetic senses, the ones who are capable of creating beauty. Beauty is decisive at every level: the most important interfaces, the most important programming languages, the winning algorithms are the beautiful ones.
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Software engineering economics.
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So we do software for watches, for phones, for TV sets, for cars. And some of these take a long time to catch on.
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I'm not saying we purposely introduced bugs or anything, but this is kind of a natural result of any complexities of software... that you can't fully test it.
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Most software has a tiny essence that justifies its existence, everything after that is wants and desires mistaken for needs and necessities.
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The best thing software can be is easy, but the way to do this is to get the defaults right, not to limit users' choices.
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Fight Features. … The only way to make software secure, reliable, and fast is to make it small.
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The truth of Moore's law has made remarkable things possible. On the software side, I think natural user interfaces in all their forms are equally significant.
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High-quality software is not expensive. High-quality software is faster and cheaper to build and maintain than low-quality software, from initial development all the way through total cost of ownership.
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We are a non-utopian political movement. We are not interested in going nowhere. We are not interested in going to some place we have never been, which we will get to after the revolution because people will be different. The crucial operating premise of the Free Software Movement as a revolutionary politic is: Proof of Concept plus Running code. Here. We did it already. It's sort of working. If you take a copy and help us fix it, it could really be something. Here. You want it? Take it. We like it. It's Free.
