Software Quotes

"Software development is technical activity conducted by human beings"

"We can collaborate with a Netscape employee or partner who's halfway around the world. We can distribute information and software to customers and shareholders, and get their feedback"

"The Postfix security model is based on keeping software simple and stupid"

"My reply is: the software has no known bugs, therefore it has not been updated"

"I think that the most beautiful thing lately hasn't been in hardware or software per se but collaboration - the idea behind Napster, which uses the distributed power of the Internet as its engine"

"Writing software that's safe even in the presence of bugs makes the challenge even more interesting"

"This will surprise some of your readers, but my primary interest is not with computer security. I am primarily interested in writing software that works as intended"

"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"

"Most of the effort in the software business goes into the maintenance of code that already exists"

"The challenge with Postfix, or with any piece of software, is to update software without introducing problems"

"For many people my software is something that you install and forget. I like to keep it that way"

"Indeed, the woes of Software Engineering are not due to lack of tools, or proper management, but largely due to lack of sufficient technical competence"

"However, writing software without defects is not sufficient. In my experience, it is at least as difficult to write software that is safe - that is, software that behaves reasonably under adverse conditions"

"I think we're proving ourselves as we go along. The past several months our strategy has been evolutionary - making maximum advantage of our client browser, as well as our enterprise software for people who want to build Web sites"

"Now, you can just get a laptop, get some software, put a microphone on it and make a record. You have to know how to do it. It does help if you've had 35 or 40 years of experience in the studio. But, it still levels the playing field so artists can record their own stuff"

"We can provide beta software to our developers in advance of the general public. We can easily link up with external partners, customers, and suppliers"

"I don't believe in government regulation of the software industry"

"For music, unlike a $500 software program, people are paying a buck or two a song, and it's those dollars and pennies that have to add up to pay for not just the cost of that song, but the investment in the next song"

"Diaspora starts about a thousand years from now. Most of human civilisation has moved inside computers; essentially, a major branch of our descendants consists of conscious software"

"If Unix could present the same face, the same capabilities, on machines of many different types, it could serve as a common software environment for all of them"

"Our technology is very scalable. Our software can accommodate enormous numbers of clients. It's a marvelous opportunity. We'll keep developing products"

"I got bitten by the free software bug in February of 1998 around the time of the Mozilla announcement"

"I really think it is amazing that people actually buy software"

"I just became one with my browser software"