Software Quotes

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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.

Defect-free software does not exist.

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.