Software Quotes
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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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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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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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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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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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Find the simplest model that is not a lie is the key to better software design.
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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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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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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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Computers themselves, and software yet to be developed, will revolutionize the way we learn.
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Poor management can increase software costs more rapidly than any other factor.
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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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Software is the magic thing whose importance only goes up over time.
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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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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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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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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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More and more software would just increase the number of tasks that the computer would help solve.
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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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We in Microsoft are not the only software company but we are a great software company doing some unique work.
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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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Excessive or irrational schedules are probably the single most destructive influence in all of software
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A lot of people assume that creating software is purely a solitary activity where you sit in an office with the door closed all day and write lots of code.
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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.
