Software Quotes

I developed some unique software to public it on the web that I call the Folklore Project.

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

Code reuse is the Holy Grail of Software Engineering.

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

The amateur software engineer is always in search of magic.

Software gets slower faster than hardware gets faster. (Or, sometimes known by] Grove [the head of Intel] giveth and Gates [the head of Microsoft] taketh away.)

Software is like entropy. It is difficult to grasp, weighs nothing, and obeys the second law of thermodynamics; i.e. it always increases.

The most fundamental problem in software development is complexity. There is only one basic way of dealing with complexity: divide and conquer

Over the next 10 years, I expect many more industries to be disrupted by software, with new world-beating Silicon Valley companies doing the disruption in more cases than not.

I regularly read Internet user groups filled with messages from people trying to solve software incompatibility problems that, in terms of complexity, make the U.S. Tax Code look like Dr. Seuss.

Software is getting slower more rapidly than hardware becomes faster.

Health care and education, in my view, are next up for fundamental software-based transformation.

It's easier for our software to compete with Linux when there's piracy than when there's not.

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.

The biggest issue on software teams is making sure everyone understands what everyone else is doing.

Inadequate use of usability engineering methods in software development projects have been estimated to cost the US economy about $30 billion per year in lost productivity.

Up to a point, it is better to just let the snags [bugs] be there than to spend such time in design that there are none.

Don't document bad code - rewrite it.

Hey, I'm a good software engineer, but I'm not exactly known for my fashion sense. White socks and sandals don't translate to 'good design sense'.

There are no significant bugs in our released software that any significant number of users want fixed.

Doctors can be replaced by software – 80% of them can. I’d much rather have a good machine learning system diagnose my disease than the median or average doctor.

From day one our next generation system will run all our exsisting software - so that gives us a head start.

Giving the Linus Torvalds Award to the Free Software Foundation is a bit like giving the Han Solo Award to the Rebel Alliance.

Software sucks because users demand it to.

The Internet "browser"... is the piece of software that puts a message on your computer screen informing you that the Internet is currently busy and you should try again later.

Our civilization depends critically on software, and we have a dangerously low degree of professionalism in the computer fields

When Paul Allen and I started Microsoft over 30 years ago, we had big dreams about software. We had dreams about the impact it could have.

Your "use case" should be, there's a 22 year old college student living in the dorms. How will this software get him laid?

To change the printout of the body, you must learn to rewrite the software of the mind.

One of the best programmers I ever hired had only a High School degree; he's produced a lot of great software, has his own news group, and made enough in stock options to buy his own nightclub.

As a rule, software systems do not work well until they have been used, and have failed repeatedly, in real applications.

Defect-free software does not exist.

Listening, Testing, Coding, Designing. That's all there is to software. Anyone who tells you different is selling something.

Software is the magic thing whose importance only goes up over time.

We're entering a new world in which data may be more important than software.

More and more major businesses and industries are being run on software and delivered as online services - from movies to agriculture to national defense.

It's hard to propose a $100 laptop for a world community of kids and then not say in the same breath that you're going to depend on the community to make software for it.

Structure is translation software for your imagination.

Like any well designed software product, Windows is designed, developed and tested as an integrated whole.

Open source is a development methodology; free software is a social movement.

A great lathe operator commands several times the wage of an average lathe operator, but a great writer of software code is worth 10,000 times the price of an average software writer.

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

GNU, which stands for Gnu's Not Unix, is the name for the complete Unix-compatible software system which I am writing so that I can give it away free to everyone who can use it.

The hardest single part of building a software system is deciding precisely what to build.

Personalization is the automatic tailoring of sites and messages to the individuals viewing them, so that we can feel that somewhere there's a piece of software that loves us for who we are.

The default movement on a software project should be in the direction of taking elements of the software away to make it simpler rather than adding elements to make it more complex.

The greatest risk we face in software development is that of overestimating our own knowledge.

Software is a great combination between artistry and engineering.

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

I would say that hardware is the bone of the head, the skull. The semiconductor is the brain within the head. The software is the wisdom and data is the knowledge.