Software Quotes
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Poor management can increase software costs more rapidly than any other factor.
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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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Computers themselves, and software yet to be developed, will revolutionize the way we learn.
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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 managers have realized that most software people are slightly brain damaged, that they're off on their own planets.
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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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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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Software is the magic thing whose importance only goes up over time.
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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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Find the simplest model that is not a lie is the key to better software design.
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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 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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More and more software would just increase the number of tasks that the computer would help solve.
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When we started off we didn't know how to spell 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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Finding information is either a software question or a question of how much information is online.
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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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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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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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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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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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Excessive or irrational schedules are probably the single most destructive influence in all of software
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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.
