Software Quotes

I got bitten by the free software bug in February of 1998 around the time of the Mozilla announcement.

There is a lot of interest in the arts, music, theatre, filmmaking, engineering, architecture and software design. I think we have now transitioned the modern-day version of the entrepreneur into the creative economy.

Whether it's Google or Apple or free software, we've got some fantastic competitors and it keeps us on our toes.

One of the ways that Microsoft beat Apple way back in the day was that they were a lot more open; today, in the world I come from, the free software and open-source world, Microsoft is not generally viewed as open; they're viewed as proprietary.

The only thing I understand deeply, because in my teens I was thinking about it, and every year of my life, is software. So I'll never be hands-on on anything except software.

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%.

Any editing, software work, and mail is done in this exported Plan 9.

I think software patents are a bad idea. Many patents are given for trivial inventions.

While the creative works from the 16th century can still be accessed and used by others, the data in some software programs from the 1990s is already inaccessible.

Adding manpower to a late software project makes it later.

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.

Most software today is very much like an Egyptian pyramid with millions of bricks piled on top of each other, with no structural integrity, but just done by brute force and thousands of slaves.

None of our competitors have ever made two systems that run the same software.

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

In the free/libre software movement, we develop software that respects users' freedom, so we and you can escape from software that doesn't.

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.

In short, software is eating the world.

Most of the effort in the software business goes into the maintenance of code that already exists.

My first company, Pure Software, was exciting and innovative in the first few years and bureaucratic and painful in the last few before it got acquired. The problem was we tried to systemize everything and set up perfect procedures.

Software Engineering might be science; but that's not what I do. I'm a hacker, not an engineer.

Software development is technical activity conducted by human beings.

For many people my software is something that you install and forget. I like to keep it that way.

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.

We have most of the software industry running Autonomy.

All software sucks.

Writing software that's safe even in the presence of bugs makes the challenge even more interesting.

It's hardware that makes a machine fast. It's software that makes a fast machine slow.

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

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.

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.