Software Quotes
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If you think your management doesn't know what it's doing or that your organisation turns out low-quality software crap that embarrasses you, then leave.
Edward Yourdon -
Perhaps the worst software technology of all time was the use of physical lines of code for metrics. Continued use of this approach, in the author's opinion, should be considered professional malpractice.
Capers Jones
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I've passion for software, and Microsoft provide me a true platform.
Arfa Karim -
Software was the key element that would determine how useable and how broadly applicable the machine was.
Bill Gates -
As the commercial confrontation between free software and software-that's-a-product becomes more fierce, patent law's going to be the terrain on which a big piece of the war's going to be fought. Waterloo is here somewhere.
Eben Moglen -
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.
Andrew Leigh -
Software will get to be somewhat more mature, ah, but it will never be as predictable as most areas of engineering.
Bill Gates -
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.
Bran Ferren
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The most important people is to pick people who like to write software and who are good at... good developers like working with each other. And they... they reinforce each other's skills.
Bill Gates -
Defect-free software does not exist.
Wietse Venema -
At the end of the day, the GPL is not about making software free; it's about destroying value.
Darl McBride -
Cultural conditioning is like bad software. Over and over it's diddled with and re-written so that it can just run on the next attempt. But there is cultural hardware, and it's that cultural hardware, otherwise known as authentic being, that we are propelled toward by the example of the shaman and the techniques of the shaman. ... Shamanism therefore is a call to authenticity.
Terence McKenna -
Software is more important than hardware.
Bill Gates -
A primary cause of complexity is that software vendors uncritically adopt almost any feature that users want.
Niklaus Wirth
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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.
Bill Gates -
Software will never replace the Koran.
Dan Wieden -
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.
Bill Gates -
The software patent problem is not limited to Mono. Software patents affect everyone writing software today.
Miguel de Icaza -
The most important thing was the creation of a... a standard, where hundreds of companies build hardware that can all run the same software.
Bill Gates -
There's a strong distinction to be made between dry code smart contacts and wet code's physical law. So law is based on our minds, our wetware - it's based on analogy. The law is more flexible; software is more rigid. Various laws tend to be batched in jurisdictional silos. Software tends to be independent.
Nick Szabo
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Computers themselves, and software yet to be developed, will revolutionize the way we learn.
Steve Jobs -
Creating a piece of software is always complicated because you're doing something new. If you just wanted something that had been done before you'd just use that old piece of software. So there are no repetitive tasks.
Bill Gates -
Fight Features. … The only way to make software secure, reliable, and fast is to make it small.
Andrew S. Tanenbaum -
There is this thing called the GPL Gnu Public Licence, which we disagree with... nobody can ever improve the software.
Bill Gates