Software Quotes
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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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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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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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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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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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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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More and more software would just increase the number of tasks that the computer would help solve.
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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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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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In almost every job now, people use software and work with information to enable their organization to operate more effectively.
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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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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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There is this thing called the GPL Gnu Public Licence, which we disagree with... nobody can ever improve the software.
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Software is the magic thing whose importance only goes up over time.
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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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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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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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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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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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We in Microsoft are not the only software company but we are a great software company doing some unique work.
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Design Patterns - Elements of Reusable Object-Oriented Software.
