Software Quotes

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Small: Software is like sex: its better when its free
Linus Torvalds
"Software is like sex: it's better when it's free"
Linus Torvalds, Businessman
Small: Computers themselves, and software yet to be developed, will revolutionize the way we learn
Steve Jobs
"Computers themselves, and software yet to be developed, will revolutionize the way we learn"
Steve Jobs, 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: 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: When it comes to software, I much prefer free software, because I have very seldom seen a program that has wor
Linus Torvalds
"When it comes to software, I much prefer free software, because I have very seldom seen a program that has worked well enough for my needs, and having sources available can be a life-saver"
Linus Torvalds, Businessman
Small: People enjoy the interaction on the Internet, and the feeling of belonging to a group that does something inte
Linus Torvalds
"People enjoy the interaction on the Internet, and the feeling of belonging to a group that does something interesting: that's how some software projects are born"
Linus Torvalds, Businessman
Small: The engineering is long gone in most PC companies. In the consumer electronics companies, they dont understand
Steve Jobs
"The engineering is long gone in most PC companies. In the consumer electronics companies, they don't understand the software parts of it. And so you really can't make the products that you can make at Apple anywhere else right now. Apple's the only company that has everything under one roof"
Steve Jobs, Businessman
Small: Reading computer manuals without the hardware is as frustrating as reading manuals without the software
Arthur C. Clarke
"Reading computer manuals without the hardware is as frustrating as reading manuals without the software"
Arthur C. Clarke, Writer
Small: Any good software engineer will tell you that a compiler and an interpreter are interchangeable
Tim Berners-Lee
"Any good software engineer will tell you that a compiler and an interpreter are interchangeable"
Tim Berners-Lee, Inventor
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: Its hardware that makes a machine fast. Its software that makes a fast machine slow
Craig Bruce
"It's hardware that makes a machine fast. It's software that makes a fast machine slow"
Craig Bruce
Small: Most people treat the office manual the way they treat a software manual. They never look at it
James Levine
"Most people treat the office manual the way they treat a software manual. They never look at it"
James Levine, Musician
Small: I think software patents are a bad idea. Many patents are given for trivial inventions
"I think software patents are a bad idea. Many patents are given for trivial inventions"
Larry Wall, Author
Small: I want people to use Perl. I want to be a positive ingredient of the world and make my American history.
"I want people to use Perl. I want to be a positive ingredient of the world and make my American history. So, whatever it takes to give away my software and get it used, that's great"
Larry Wall, Author
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: Our democracy, our constitutional framework is really a kind of software for harnessing the creativity and pol
Al Gore
"Our democracy, our constitutional framework is really a kind of software for harnessing the creativity and political imagination for all of our people. The American democratic system was an early political version of Napster"
Al Gore, Vice President
Small: We are as much moving into a software age as we moved into an iron age
Whitfield Diffie
"We are as much moving into a software age as we moved into an iron age"
Whitfield Diffie, 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: People who are really serious about software should make their own hardware
Alan Kay
"People who are really serious about software should make their own hardware"
Alan Kay, Scientist
Small: Over the next 10 years, I expect many more industries to be disrupted by software, with new world-beating Sili
"Over the next 10 years, I expect many more industries to be disrupted by software, with new world-beating Silicon Valley companies doing the disruption in more cases than not"
Marc Andreessen, Businessman
Small: My own theory is that we are in the middle of a dramatic and broad technological and economic shift in which s
"My own theory is that we are in the middle of a dramatic and broad technological and economic shift in which software companies are poised to take over large swathes of the economy"
Marc Andreessen, Businessman
Small: More and more major businesses and industries are being run on software and delivered as online services - fro
"More and more major businesses and industries are being run on software and delivered as online services - from movies to agriculture to national defense"
Marc Andreessen, Businessman
Small: Todays leading real-world retailer, Wal-Mart, uses software to power its logistics and distribution capabiliti
"Today's leading real-world retailer, Wal-Mart, uses software to power its logistics and distribution capabilities, which it has used to crush its competition"
Marc Andreessen, Businessman
Small: On the back end, software programming tools and Internet-based services make it easy to launch new global soft
"On the back end, software programming tools and Internet-based services make it easy to launch new global software-powered start-ups in many industries - without the need to invest in new infrastructure and train new employees"
Marc Andreessen, Businessman
Small: Companies in every industry need to assume that a software revolution is coming
"Companies in every industry need to assume that a software revolution is coming"
Marc Andreessen, Businessman
Small: In short, software is eating the world
"In short, software is eating the world"
Marc Andreessen, Businessman
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: Every piece of software written today is likely going to infringe on someone elses patent
"Every piece of software written today is likely going to infringe on someone else's patent"
Miguel de Icaza, Scientist
Small: Then people started using it more and more and it became the most downloaded software on the internet
"Then people started using it more and more and it became the most downloaded software on the internet"
Niklas Zennstrom, Scientist
Small: I think the most difficult thing had been scaling the infrastructure. Trying to support the response we had re
"I think the most difficult thing had been scaling the infrastructure. Trying to support the response we had received from our users and the number of people that were interested in using the software"
Shawn Fanning, Businessman
Small: Why shouldnt we give our teachers a license to obtain software, all software, any software, for nothing? Does
William Gibson
"Why shouldn't we give our teachers a license to obtain software, all software, any software, for nothing? Does anyone demand a licensing fee, each time a child is taught the alphabet?"
William Gibson, Writer
Small: Any editing, software work, and mail is done in this exported Plan 9
"Any editing, software work, and mail is done in this exported Plan 9"
Dennis Ritchie, 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: Digital art software has empowered both the painterly side of photographers, and the photographer side of pain
"Digital art software has empowered both the painterly side of photographers, and the photographer side of painters"
Buffy Sainte-Marie
Small: In software systems it is often the early bird that makes the worm
"In software systems it is often the early bird that makes the worm"
Alan Perlis, Scientist
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