Software Quotes
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Open source is one of those odd phenomena that crops up from time to time that is good for everybody. The software is invariably good quality, and it's free, so it's ideal for any area that does not convey a competitive advantage.
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Software entities (classes, modules, functions, etc.) should be open for extension, but closed for modification.
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We are still in the infancy of naming what is really happening on software development projects.
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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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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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I've passion for software, and Microsoft provide me a true platform.
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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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Software is a great combination between artistry and engineering.
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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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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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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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SAP is becoming the standard for business software. Oracle is in a state of chaos.
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Software is getting slower more rapidly than hardware becomes faster.
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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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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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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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I've always been obsessed with electronics and using computers and software. It's always been part of my vernacular.
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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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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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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.
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I made my money with software - encoded knowledge without which few products and services can exist today - and so it seemed imperative that this would be the field where I would give something back.
