Software Quotes
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Software was the key element that would determine how useable and how broadly applicable the machine was.
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The software is where the magic is. If you're going to have all this power be simple enough, appealing enough and cool enough, it's going to be because the software is right.
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The default movement on a software project should be in the direction of taking elements of the software away to make it simpler rather than adding elements to make it more complex.
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Paul and I, we never thought that we would make much money out of the thing. We just loved writing software.
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We've spent some time talking to Independent Software Vendors recently and the software community welcomes the arrival of a consistent environment to this area.
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Services are the present and future development trend for enterprise software. We've all agreed to speak the lingua franca of services. This is immensely important to customers; just as HTML enabled the explosion of the Web, SOA is doing the same for business applications.
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The software patent problem is not limited to Mono. Software patents affect everyone writing software today.
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One of the great enemies of design is when systems or objects become more complex than a person - or even a team of people - can keep in their heads. This is why software is generally beneath contempt.
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There are thousands of ways to mess up or damage a software projects, and only a few ways to do them well
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We're focused on providing innovations in software, driving the continuous improvement for a much better experience, and there's a lot going on here that speaks to this decade and what's going to happen in this decade. We can kind of sum it up in terms of saying, "Yes, you can."
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It is a high bar to say that it's more fun than working on software because the work at Microsoft that both Melinda Gates and I did was thrilling. We were making breakthroughs and empowering people.
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DNA is like a computer program but far, far more advanced than any software ever created.
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The only thing I understand deeply, because in my teens I was thinking about it, and every year of my life, is software. So I'll never be hands-on on anything except software.
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This is a software-powered world.
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Patents? Disappointed? Don't think of it that way. Software patents weren't feasible then so we chose not to risk $10,000.
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In almost every job now, people use software and work with information to enable their organization to operate more effectively.
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Software will never replace the Koran.
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Software is inherently complicated. If you say to somebody I want an airline reservation system, to really say what you want in terms of overbooking and fares, and different airlines communicating with each or schedule changes, it's immensely complex. And so you can't write a program that's any simpler than that full specification.
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When you write a piece of software you assume a certain type of hardware. If you assume hardware that's too powerful then you can't sell many copies cause very few people have that machine. If you assume hardware that's too simple your product can't do as much.
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Defect-free software does not exist.
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Software is different than other products um, partly because it's, it's not physical and, and partly because of its complexity. You can express in software millions of different cases and making sure that you handle all of them correctly is extremely difficult.
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Our strategy in dealing with patents in Mono is the same strategy that any other software developer would take. In the event of a patent claim, we will try to find prior art to the claim of the patent.
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Yes, virus companies are playing on your fears to try to sell you bs protection software for Android, RIM and IOS. They are charlatans and scammers. IF you work for a company selling virus protection for android, rim or IOS you should be ashamed of yourself.
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I think that even knocking on the door allows you to understand a little bit of that kind of stuff. Mainly what Silicon Valley has taught me, in that respect, is the business side of it, with that gold rush element as opposed to creating software.
