Software Quotes
If something's expensive to develop, and somebody's not going to get paid, it won't get developed. So you decide: Do you want software to be written, or not?
A lot of people assume that creating software is purely a solitary activity where you sit in an office with the door closed all day and write lots of code.
Some people, through luck and skill, end up with a lot of assets. If you're good at kicking a ball, writing software, investing in stocks, it pays extremely well.
The most important thing was the creation of a... a standard, where hundreds of companies build hardware that can all run the same software.
The truth of Moore's law has made remarkable things possible. On the software side, I think natural user interfaces in all their forms are equally significant.
Finding information is either a software question or a question of how much information is online.
I can direct dial today a man my parents warred with. They wanted to kill him, I want to sell software to him.
It's hard to read through a book on the principles of magic without glancing at the cover periodically to make sure it isn't a book on software design.
For a business plan written when the hardware was a wire-wrapped board and the software was three demos on a graphics substrate, it was pretty close.
If you think your management doesn't know what it's doing or that your organisation turns out low-quality software crap that embarrasses you, then leave.
A lot of the parallel processing software we're currently developing for supercomputers is tantric.
The software is the strength of the electronic tribe because it's networking. It's creating oneness. It's creating tributaries that link together into a singular river.
I think, fundamentally, open source does tend to be more stable software. It's the right way to do things.
Digital is expensive, from the computers to the professional software to the technicians, but digital helps me to create more beautiful images in less time.
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.
It's probably fair to say that the ratio of time our Connector developers spend in the debugger versus the Emacs buffer is higher than with most software.
To be able to choose between proprietary software packages is to be able to choose your master. Freedom means not having a master.
You know, if you were *really* going to starve, you'd be justified in writing proprietary software.
I figure that since proprietary software developers use copyright to stop us from sharing, we cooperators can use copyright to give other cooperators an advantage of their own: they can use our code.
If there could've ever been a magical time to build an enterprise software company, now is absolutely that time.
The software program for motherhood is impossible to fully download into the male brain. You give them two tasks and they're like, 'I have to change the baby and get the dry cleaning?'
I think it is important for software to avoiding imposing a cognitive style on workers and their work.
While free software was meant to force developers to lose sleep over ethical dilemmas, open source software was meant to end their insomnia.
I wanted to grow in terms of making pictures, not adapting to new software and technology. But that's the game now.
Really great blogs do not take the place of great microprocessors. Great blogs do not replace great software. Lots and lots of blogs does not replace lots and lots of sales.
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
You can mass-produce hardware; you cannot mass-produce software - you cannot mass-produce the human mind.
Software development, like professional sports, has a way of making thirty-year-old men feel decrepit.
I discovered shooting and filmmaking around the time all of the software became affordable to anyone with a PC.
Trying to apply formal methods to all software projects is just as bad as trying to apply code-and-fix development to all projects.
I don't think I've ever seen a piece of commercial software where the next version is simpler rather than more complex.
Everything about the enterprise, and then by definition the software the enterprise uses has changed - just in the last 5 years.
Listen to your customers, but don't always build exactly what they're telling you. This is a really key distinction around building enterprise software.
