Software Quotes

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?

Proprietary software is an injustice.

We decided that the French could never write user-friendly software because they're so rude.

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.

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.

There's not a long track record of people leaving professional sports to become a software developer.

Any good software engineer will tell you that a compiler and an interpreter are interchangeable.

Companies in every industry need to assume that a software revolution is coming.

The software patent problem is not limited to Mono. Software patents affect everyone writing software today.

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.

There is a constant need for new systems and new software.

I'm not saying we purposely introduced bugs or anything, but this is kind of a natural result of any complexities of software... that you can't fully test it.

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

The days when you needed amazing Silicon Graphics machines to run animation software are gone now.

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.

I think malware is a significant threat because the mitigation, like antivirus software, hasn't evolved to a point to really mitigate the risk to a reasonable degree.

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.

Most people treat the office manual the way they treat a software manual. They never look at it.

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.

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.

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

Defect-free software does not exist.

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.