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If debugging is the process of removing software bugs, then programming must be the process of putting them in.

The most amazing achievement of the computer software industry is its continuing cancellation of the steady and staggering gains made by the computer hardware industry.

Venture capitalists are like lemmings jumping on the software bandwagon.

Software comes from heaven when you have good hardware.

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

Diaspora starts about a thousand years from now. Most of human civilisation has moved inside computers; essentially, a major branch of our descendants consists of conscious software.

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

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

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.

In the next 10 years, data science and software will do more for medicine than all of the biological sciences together.

Our biological body itself is a form of hardware that needs re-programming through tantra like a new spiritual software which can release or unblock its potential.

Only drug dealers and software companies call their customers 'users'

We decided that the French could never write user-friendly software because they're so rude.

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

Software gets slower faster than hardware gets faster.

Considering the current sad state of our computer programs, software development is clearly still a black art, and cannot yet be called an engineering discipline.

The hardest part of design ... is keeping features out.

The function of good software is to make the complex appear to be simple.

The software patent problem is not limited to Mono. Software patents affect everyone writing software today.

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

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.

Hardware: where the people in your company's software section will tell you the problem is. Software: where the people in your company's hardware section will tell you the problem is.

Fighting patents one by one will never eliminate the danger of software patents, any more than swatting mosquitoes will eliminate malaria.

The suddenness of the leap from hardware to software cannot but produce a period of anarchy and collapse, especially in the developed countries.

Indeed, the woes of Software Engineering are not due to lack of tools, or proper management, but largely due to lack of sufficient technical competence.

You can either have software quality or you can have pointer arithmetic, but you cannot have both at the same time.

Learning to program has no more to do with designing interactive software than learning to touch type has to do with writing poetry

To most Christians, the Bible is like a software license. Nobody actually reads it. They just scroll to the bottom and click 'I agree'.

Hiring people to write code to sell is not the same as hiring people to design and build durable, usable, dependable software.

When done well, software is invisible.

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.

I just became one with my browser software.

The cheapest, fastest, and most reliable components are those that aren't there.

Software is a gas; it expands to fill its container.

The key idea of agile is that teams essentially manage themselves. ... It works in software, and it turns out that it works with kids.

I prefer software where kids build something and run into problems they have to solve.

... with proper design, the features come cheaply. This approach is arduous, but continues to succeed.

Our goal in education should be to foster the ability to use the computer in everything you do, even if you don't have a specific piece of software for the job.

An API that isn't comprehensible isn't usable.

If we want users to like our software we should design it to behave like a likeable person: respectful, generous and helpful.

There's only one trick in software, and that is using a piece of software that's already been written.

In short, software is eating the world

The most important single aspect of software development is to be clear about what you are trying to build.

A primary cause of complexity is that software vendors uncritically adopt almost any feature that users want.

This is a software-powered world.

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

In software systems it is often the early bird that makes the worm.

So what I was essentially doing was, I compromised the confidentiality of their proprietary software to advance my agenda of becoming the best at breaking through the lock.

Never in the annals of software engineering was so much owed by so many to so few lines of code

With multimedia, everything blurs. Software takes the concept of the imagination and makes it something you can edit, tweak, and transform with digital techniques. Everything becomes an edited file.