Software Quotes
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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 don't think I've ever seen a piece of commercial software where the next version is simpler rather than more complex.
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Another trick in software is to avoid rewriting the software by using a piece that's already been written, so called component approach which the latest term for this in the most advanced form is what's called Object Oriented Programming.
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I think managers have realized that most software people are slightly brain damaged, that they're off on their own planets.
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When we started off we didn't know how to spell software.
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Computers themselves, and software yet to be developed, will revolutionize the way we learn.
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Defect-free software does not exist.
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Find the simplest model that is not a lie is the key to better software design.
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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.
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The project will use state-of-the-art technology on both the hardware and software side. The sheer size and scope makes this project physically complex and technically challenging.
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Certainly there's a phenomenon around open source. You know free software will be a vibrant area. There will be a lot of neat things that get done there.
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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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There are no secrets on an successful software project. Both good and bad news must be able to move up and down the ptoject hierarchy without restriction.
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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.
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More and more software would just increase the number of tasks that the computer would help solve.
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Whether it's Google or Apple or free software, we've got some fantastic competitors and it keeps us on our toes.
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We flew down weekly to meet with IBM, but they thought the way to measure software was the amount of code we wrote, when really the better the software, the fewer lines of code.
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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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We in Microsoft are not the only software company but we are a great software company doing some unique work.
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Excessive or irrational schedules are probably the single most destructive influence in all of software
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Software is definitely engineering. It's different in that we take on novel tasks every time. It's not like building a certain bridge that is virtually identical to some previous bridge or some previous building.
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I got a degree in math, from not a good school in Texas, and then I went to work as a software engineer. Just not glamorous at all.
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When Paul Allen and I started Microsoft over 30 years ago, we had big dreams about software. We had dreams about the impact it could have.
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Design Patterns - Elements of Reusable Object-Oriented Software.