Software Quotes

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Small: Reading computer manuals without the hardware is as frustrating as reading manuals without the software - Arth
Arthur C. Clarke
"Reading computer manuals without the hardware is as frustrating as reading manuals without the software"
Arthur C. Clarke, Writer
Small: Whether its Google or Apple or free software, weve got some fantastic competitors and it keeps us on our toes
Bill Gates
"Whether it's Google or Apple or free software, we've got some fantastic competitors and it keeps us on our toes"
Bill Gates, Businessman
Small: Since when has the world of computer software design been about what people want? This is a simple question of
Bill Gates
"Since when has the world of computer software design been about what people want? This is a simple question of evolution. The day is quickly coming when every knee will bow down to a silicon fist, and you will all beg your binary gods for mercy"
Bill Gates, Businessman
Small: Im sorry that we have to have a Washington presence. We thrived during our first 16 years without any of this.
Bill Gates
"I'm sorry that we have to have a Washington presence. We thrived during our first 16 years without any of this. I never made a political visit to Washington and we had no people here. It wasn't on our radar screen. We were just making great software"
Bill Gates, Businessman
Small: We are as much moving into a software age as we moved into an iron age - Whitfield Diffie
Whitfield Diffie
"We are as much moving into a software age as we moved into an iron age"
Whitfield Diffie, Scientist
Small: Every piece of software written today is likely going to infringe on someone elses patent - Miguel de Icaza
"Every piece of software written today is likely going to infringe on someone else's patent"
Miguel de Icaza, Scientist
Small: The software patent problem is not limited to Mono. Software patents affect everyone writing software today -
"The software patent problem is not limited to Mono. Software patents affect everyone writing software today"
Miguel de Icaza, Scientist
Small: Our strategy in dealing with patents in Mono is the same strategy that any other software developer would take
"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"
Miguel de Icaza, Scientist
Small: Human beings either function as individuals or as members of a pack. Theres a switch inside us, deep in our sp
Jaron Lanier
"Human beings either function as individuals or as members of a pack. There's a switch inside us, deep in our spirit, that you can turn one way or the other. It's almost always the case that our worst behaviour comes out when we're switched to the mob setting. The problem with a lot of software designs is that they switch us to that setting"
Jaron Lanier, Artist
Small: The 1980s will seem like a walk in the park when compared to new global challenges, where annual productivity
Jack Welch
"The 1980s will seem like a walk in the park when compared to new global challenges, where annual productivity increases of 6% may not be enough. A combination of software, brains, and running harder will be needed to bring that percentage up to 8% or 9%"
Jack Welch, Businessman
Small: Any good software engineer will tell you that a compiler and an interpreter are interchangeable - Tim Berners-
Tim Berners-Lee
"Any good software engineer will tell you that a compiler and an interpreter are interchangeable"
Tim Berners-Lee, Inventor
Small: In software systems it is often the early bird that makes the worm - Alan Perlis
"In software systems it is often the early bird that makes the worm"
Alan Perlis, Scientist
Small: I think it is important for software to avoiding imposing a cognitive style on workers and their work - Edward
"I think it is important for software to avoiding imposing a cognitive style on workers and their work"
Edward Tufte, Educator
Small: Software Engineering might be science but thats not what I do. Im a hacker, not an engineer - Jamie Zawinski
"Software Engineering might be science; but that's not what I do. I'm a hacker, not an engineer"
Jamie Zawinski, Scientist
Small: Venture capitalists are like lemmings jumping on the software bandwagon - Adam Osborne
"Venture capitalists are like lemmings jumping on the software bandwagon"
Adam Osborne, Author
Small: So what I was essentially doing was, I compromised the confidentiality of their proprietary software to advanc
Kevin Mitnick
"So what I was essentially doing was, I compromised the confidentiality of their proprietary software to advance my agenda of becoming the best at breaking through the lock"
Kevin Mitnick, Celebrity
Small: There is a lot of interest in the arts, music, theatre, filmmaking, engineering, architecture and software des
"There is a lot of interest in the arts, music, theatre, filmmaking, engineering, architecture and software design. I think we have now transitioned the modern-day version of the entrepreneur into the creative economy"
John Baldacci, Politician
Small: Twenty-five years ago, the notion was you could create a general problem-solver software that could solve prob
"Twenty-five years ago, the notion was you could create a general problem-solver software that could solve problems in many different domains. That just turned out to be totally wrong"
Howard Gardner, Psychologist
Small: Authoring tools are terrible there is almost no software that can create closed captions for media players. An
"'Authoring tools' are terrible; there is almost no software that can create closed captions for media players. And of course there is no training. TV captioning is bad enough, and this stuff is generally worse"
Joe Clark, Scientist
Small: While the creative works from the 16th century can still be accessed and used by others, the data in some soft
"While the creative works from the 16th century can still be accessed and used by others, the data in some software programs from the 1990s is already inaccessible"
Lawrence Lessig, Educator
Small: Is it possible that software is not like anything else, that it is meant to be discarded: that the whole point
"Is it possible that software is not like anything else, that it is meant to be discarded: that the whole point is to always see it as a soap bubble?"
Alan Perlis, Scientist
Small: One of the problems with computers, particularly for the older people, is they were befuddled by them, and the
"One of the problems with computers, particularly for the older people, is they were befuddled by them, and the computers have gotten better. They have gotten easier to use. They have gotten less expensive. The software interfaces have made things a lot more accessible"
Steve Case, Businessman
Small: When I write software, I know that it will fail, either due to my own mistake, or due to some other cause - Wi
"When I write software, I know that it will fail, either due to my own mistake, or due to some other cause"
Wietse Venema, Scientist
Small: In a previous life I wrote the software that controlled my physics experiments. That software had to deal with
"In a previous life I wrote the software that controlled my physics experiments. That software had to deal with all kinds of possible failures in equipment. That is probably where I learned to rely on multiple safety nets inside and around my systems"
Wietse Venema, Scientist
Small: I want to avoid locking people into solutions that work only with Postfix. People should have a choice in what
"I want to avoid locking people into solutions that work only with Postfix. People should have a choice in what software they want to use with Postfix, be it anti-virus or otherwise"
Wietse Venema, Scientist
Small: The days when a car aficionado could repair his or her own car are long past, due primarily to the high softwa
"The days when a car aficionado could repair his or her own car are long past, due primarily to the high software content"
Marc Andreessen, Businessman
Small: Qualified software engineers, managers, marketers and salespeople in Silicon Valley can rack up dozens of high
"Qualified software engineers, managers, marketers and salespeople in Silicon Valley can rack up dozens of high-paying, high-upside job offers any time they want, while national unemployment and underemployment is sky high"
Marc Andreessen, Businessman
Small: Perhaps the single most dramatic example of this phenomenon of software eating a traditional business is the s
"Perhaps the single most dramatic example of this phenomenon of software eating a traditional business is the suicide of Borders and corresponding rise of Amazon"
Marc Andreessen, Businessman
Small: Well, user feedback was excellent. Even when the software didnt work at all, there were few people who were av
"Well, user feedback was excellent. Even when the software didn't work at all, there were few people who were avid users, and there were people who were just sending excellent feedback and excellent ideas"
Shawn Fanning, Businessman
Small: You know, IBM was almost knocked out of the box by other types of computer software and manufacturing - Roy Ro
"You know, IBM was almost knocked out of the box by other types of computer software and manufacturing"
Roy Romer, Politician
Small: Interactive computers and software will, I think, provide a less costly method of doing some kinds of inquiry,
"Interactive computers and software will, I think, provide a less costly method of doing some kinds of inquiry, in knowledge acquisition and even reasoning and interaction"
Roy Romer, Politician
Small: The days when you needed amazing Silicon Graphics machines to run animation software are gone now - Dave Rownt
"The days when you needed amazing Silicon Graphics machines to run animation software are gone now"
Dave Rowntree, Musician
Small: I have this hope that there is a better way. Higher-level tools that actually let you see the structure of the
"I have this hope that there is a better way. Higher-level tools that actually let you see the structure of the software more clearly will be of tremendous value"
Guido van Rossum, Scientist
Small: I developed some unique software to public it on the web that I call the Folklore Project - Andy Hertzfeld
Andy Hertzfeld
"I developed some unique software to public it on the web that I call the Folklore Project"
Andy Hertzfeld, Inventor
Small: Limit use of shareware and public domain software to systems without fixed disks. If you do use them on fixed
"Limit use of shareware and public domain software to systems without fixed disks. If you do use them on fixed disks, allocate separate subdirectories... Public domain or shareware software should never be placed in the root directory"
John McAfee, Businessman
Small: As every new breed of virus is conceived, created and released into the wild, another small change is made to
"As every new breed of virus is conceived, created and released into the wild, another small change is made to the anti-virus software to combat the new threat"
Glenn Turner, Athlete
Small: Computers have become more friendly, understandable, and lots of years and thought have been put into developi
Roberta Williams
"Computers have become more friendly, understandable, and lots of years and thought have been put into developing software to convince people that they want and need a computer"
Roberta Williams, Designer
Small: So far, Indian companies have focused more on customer application. This needs to shift to packaged software f
"So far, Indian companies have focused more on customer application. This needs to shift to packaged software for sectors such as banking and financial services"
Sanjay Kumar, Businessman
Small: Defect-free software does not exist - Wietse Venema
"Defect-free software does not exist"
Wietse Venema, Scientist
Small: People who are really serious about software should make their own hardware - Alan Kay
Alan Kay
"People who are really serious about software should make their own hardware"
Alan Kay, Scientist
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