Software Quotes

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

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.

Defect-free software does not exist.

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 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.

Like all software, Qmail can survive only when it keeps up with changing requirements.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Shareware tends to combine the worst of commercial software with the worst of free software.

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.

The days when a car aficionado could repair his or her own car are long past, due primarily to the high software content.

Every piece of software written today is likely going to infringe on someone else's patent.

Free software is software that respects your freedom and the social solidarity of your community. So it's free as in freedom.

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.

I think it is important for software to avoiding imposing a cognitive style on workers and their work.

With bundled machines you can throw away the hardware and keep the software, and it's still a good buy.

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.

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

Computers themselves, and software yet to be developed, will revolutionize the way we learn.

The thing is, there are so many different ways to make music these days with virtual instruments, software applications, physical instruments, and computer programs.

Then people started using it more and more and it became the most downloaded software on the internet.

I don't believe in government regulation of the software industry.

I was trying to figure out what to do next, I'd been accumulating ideas for productivity tools - software people could use every day, particularly to help organize their lives.