Software Quotes

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.

Reading computer manuals without the hardware is as frustrating as reading manuals without the software.

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.

We're entering a new world in which data may be more important than software.

Software development is technical activity conducted by human beings.

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.

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.

People who are really serious about software should make their own hardware.

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.

I was lucky to be involved and get to contribute to something that was important, which is empowering people with software.

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.

A lot of people who work on open-source software don't mind making money elsewhere. They aren't anticommercial.

In software systems it is often the early bird that makes the worm.

Digital art software has empowered both the painterly side of photographers, and the photographer side of painters.

A geek is a guy who has everything going for him but he's just too young. He's got the software but he doesn't have the hardware yet.

'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.

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.

All software sucks.

We also had good software in the key categories and more focus on the gameplaying capability, so more of the marketing effort was targeted at game customers.

Software patents are dangerous to software developers because they impose monopolies on software ideas.

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.

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

Software comes from heaven when you have good hardware.

Software is like entropy. It is difficult to grasp, weighs nothing, and obeys the second law of thermodynamics; i.e. it always increases.

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.

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.

As a rule, software systems do not work well until they have been used, and have failed repeatedly, in real applications.

I took a job in the U.S. because I wanted to work on products that would get into end users' hands. In Norway, most of the jobs are in server software, niche stuff.

When I write software, I know that it will fail, either due to my own mistake, or due to some other cause.

If you use a proprietary program or somebody else's web server, you're defenceless. You're putty in the hands of whoever developed that software.