Software Quotes

"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"

"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"

"Back in my day, I would probe by hand. Now you can get commercial software that does the job for you"

"Software comes from heaven when you have good hardware"

"There is no neat distinction between operating system software and the software that runs on top of it"

"Red Carpet Enterprise has been really well received since one guy can install it in about an hour, and it makes it trivial to deal with software management issues like deploying updates and creating standard package sets for your various machines"

"It's probably fair to say that the ratio of time our Connector developers spend in the debugger versus the Emacs buffer is higher than with most software"

"Adding manpower to a late software project makes it later"

"Of course, all of the software I write runs on Linux; that's the beauty of standards, and of cross-platform code. I don't have to run your OS, and you don't have to run mine, and we can use the same applications anyway!"

"There is one major problem with anti-virus software: It needs updating. Users cannot be relied upon to have even the anti-virus software in the first place, let alone be able or willing to pay for the updates"

"The scanning of barcodes, or the reading of RFID transponders, generates data that is used in a software package to provide management or control information"

"By the time Apple's Macintosh operating system finally falls into the public domain, there will be no machine that could possibly run it. The term of copyright for software is effectively unlimited"

"Yet, I am convinced that there is a need for high quality software, and the time will come when it will be recognized that it is worth investing effort in its development and in using a careful, structured approach based on safe, structured languages"

"Software development is technical activity conducted by human beings"

"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"

"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"

"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"

"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"