Software Quotes

There is no neat distinction between operating system software and the software that runs on top of it.

...it is simplicity that is difficult to make.

Software entities (classes, modules, functions, etc.) should be open for extension, but closed for modification.

In software, we rarely have meaningful requirements. Even if we do, the only measure of success that matters is whether our solution solves the customer's shifting idea of what their problem is.

Our technology is very scalable. Our software can accommodate enormous numbers of clients. It's a marvelous opportunity. We'll keep developing products.

More and more software would just increase the number of tasks that the computer would help solve.

Maintaining a consistent platform also helps improve product support - a significant problem in the software industry.

Certainly there's a phenomenon around open source. You know free software will be a vibrant area. There will be a lot of neat things that get done there.

I was lucky to be involved and get to contribute to something that was important, which is empowering people with software.

We can collaborate with a Netscape employee or partner who's halfway around the world. We can distribute information and software to customers and shareholders, and get their feedback.

Second law: The complexity barrier. Software complexity (and therefore that of bugs) grows to the limits of our ability to manage that complexity.

Similarly, computer literacy courses tend to produce computer people who know a lot about computers or a piece of software but they don't help people become fluent with the machine.

Software Engineering is that part of Computer Science which is too difficult for the Computer Scientist.

The days when you needed amazing Silicon Graphics machines to run animation software are gone now.

Find the simplest model that is not a lie is the key to better software design.

Software is usually expected to be modified over the course of its productive life. The process of converting one correct program into a different correct program is extremely challenging.

With the DS and Wii, following the titles that were released at launch, the momentum dropped when there was a gap in software releases. We're making plans so that this type of thing won't happen.

Except for its backward compatibility with existing Wii software and accessories, we have so far failed to make propositions worthy of Wii U's position as a successor to the Wii system.

My best decision was to choose to go to Wall Street over law. I learned a lot and focused on the expanding software industry at a time when the independent software industry was just beginning.

Shareware tends to combine the worst of commercial software with the worst of free software.

Every piece of software written today is likely going to infringe on someone else's patent.

When I write software, I know that it will fail, either due to my own mistake, or due to some other cause.

Excessive or irrational schedules are probably the single most destructive influence in all of software

Software patents, in particular, are very ripe for abuse. The whole system encourages big corporations getting thousands and thousands of patents. Individuals almost never get them.

People will realize that software is not a product; you use it to build a product.

By the time Apple's Macintosh operating system finally falls into the public domain, there will be no machine that could possibly run it. The term of copyright for software is effectively unlimited.

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.

We will still be enormously profitable and by far the most profitable enterprise software company.

Lisp ... made me aware that software could be close to executable mathematics.

For whatever reason somebody can be convinced to buy a PC, it opens up a whole new market for all of us in the software business.

There is only one real computer - the universe - whose hardware is made up of non-spatial states of consciousness and software is made up of superhuman as well as non-superhuman thoughts.

By trade, I am a software programmer, so I never really had any experience with movies before. I started out with 'Paranormal Activity.

In software speed to market, speed to learning is really key. In hardware if you screw it up you are dead. So accuracy really matters.

Free software' is a matter of liberty, not price. To understand the concept, you should think of 'free' as in 'free speech,' not as in 'free beer'.

We can provide beta software to our developers in advance of the general public. We can easily link up with external partners, customers, and suppliers.

The Adobe flash plug-in is non-free software, and people should not install it, or suggest installing it, or even tell people it exists.

Uruguay is one of the biggest producers of software. We are breaking with the neoliberal model. We do not believe in free trade.

Twenty-five years ago, the notion was you could create a general problem-solver software that could solve problems in many different domains. That just turned out to be totally wrong.

As a person with the retentive mental capacity of a goldfish and a dislike of repetition, I frequently make use of the thesaurus built into my Microsoft Word U.K. Software.

Experience doesn't necessarily teach anything.

Paying isn’t wrong, and being paid isn’t wrong. Trampling other people’s freedom and community is wrong, so the free software movement aims to put an end to it, at least in the area of software.

I have not seen anyone assume that all the citizens of New York are guilty of murder, violence, robbery, perjury, or writing proprietary software.

Our mailing lists (and their repeater newsgroups) are only for the purpose of promoting proprietary software.

Software and hardware design is less different than software designers think, but more different than hardware designers think.

More software projects have gone awry for lack of calendar time than for all other causes combined.

The complexity of software is an essential property, not an accidental one. Hence, descriptions of a software entity that abstract away its complexity often abstracts away its essence.

Successful software always gets changed.

You know, IBM was almost knocked out of the box by other types of computer software and manufacturing.

For most software startups, this translates to keep growing. For hardware startups, it translates to don't let your ship date slip.

Our goal in making these changes is to enable Microsoft to achieve greater agility in managing the incredible growth ahead and executing our software-based services strategy.