Software Quotes

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

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.

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.

Digital art software has empowered both the painterly side of photographers, and the photographer side of painters.

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

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.

For music, unlike a $500 software program, people are paying a buck or two a song, and it's those dollars and pennies that have to add up to pay for not just the cost of that song, but the investment in the next song.