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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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

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.

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 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.

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

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

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 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%.

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

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

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.