Software Quotes
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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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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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More and more software would just increase the number of tasks that the computer would help solve.
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Qmail out of the box works fine, so people will want to use it regardless of licensing restrictions, even when the software does not ship with their system software.
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At the end of the day, the GPL is not about making software free; it's about destroying value.
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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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Find the simplest model that is not a lie is the key to better software design.
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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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There is this thing called the GPL Gnu Public Licence, which we disagree with... nobody can ever improve the software.
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Defect-free software does not exist.
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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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I was just the one who upgraded her software and made sure that nothing broke down. If anyone was equipped for the job, it was me, the professional computational linguist.
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It should be noted that no ethically-trained software engineer would ever consent to write a DestroyBaghdad procedure. Basic professional ethics would instead require him to write a DestroyCity procedure, to which Baghdad could be given as a parameter.
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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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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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Poor management can increase software costs more rapidly than any other factor.
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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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The most important thing was the creation of a... a standard, where hundreds of companies build hardware that can all run the same software.
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Design Patterns - Elements of Reusable Object-Oriented Software.
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Software is the magic thing whose importance only goes up over time.
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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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It's a curious thing about our industry: not only do we not learn from our mistakes, we also don't learn from our successes.
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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.
