Software Quotes

In a user lead model, users are bringing in their own technology... and you can build software then, around the user.

In computers, every 'new explosion' was set off by a software product that allowed users to program differently.

Just the attempt to learn a [new] language is like running different software through the brain.

I never could have written the screenplay because I would have been forced to learn new software and I can't learn one more thing.

By being able to write a genome and plug it into an organism, the software, if you will, changes the hardware.

SAP is becoming the standard for business software. Oracle is in a state of chaos.

I was writing and developing software for alumnae to be able to connect and communicate.

Some software is actually pretty good, by any standard. Think of the Mars Rovers, Google, and the Human Genome Project. Now, that's quality software!

Software as an asset isn't stable over time; it needs to be maintained.

You are in big trouble when you start writing software to impress girls.

[Core concepts: Human beings all have souls. Souls are software objects. Software is not immortal.]

You haven’t experienced awkwardness until you’ve seen a three-million-dollar piece of software cry.

It's time to re-appreciate the original software: paper.

I wrote a piece of software in 1998 that created fictional weather.

Software constraints are only confining if you use them for what they're intended to be used for.

But cheer up - we could be selling tobacco. It's not like software kills people if used as intended

The True-GNU philosophy is more extreme than I care for, but it certainly laid a foundation for the current scene, as well as providing real software.

The structure of software systems tend to reflect the structure of the organization that produce them.

In the software business there are many enterprises for which it is not clear that science can help them; that science should try is not clear either.

Software is largely a service industry operating under the persistent but unfounded delusion that it is a manufacturing industry

Complexity control is the central problem of writing software in the real world

Those who write software only for pay should go hurt some other field.

Like many older fans of Free Software and Open Source, I have discovered that it is really only free in the sense that the time you spend on it is worthless.

A word says more than a thousand images. Exercises for the visually inclined: illustrate "appreciation", "humor", "software", "education", "inalienable rights", "elegance", "fact".

I think managers have realized that most software people are slightly brain damaged, that they're off on their own planets.

Free open-source software, by its nature, is unlikely to feature secret back doors that lead directly to Langley, Va.

Software work is the most complex that humanity has ever undertaken.

Plan to throw one (implementation) away; you will, anyhow.

I have found that meditation has helped me with my academic career and has given me insights into musical composition and software design.

I develop artificially intelligent technologies, along with educational and game software and let the business people take it where they will.

I am involved in the creation of software, and I'm also in the music business.

I no longer teach meditation, only software design.

Consciousness, like a complex system of software, has thousands of levels of nested, self-accessing subroutines

Follow your dreams wherever they lead you and pay for those dreams with good jobs in software programming and computer design!

The two [separate] UIs are both incredibly simple and don't even look like computer programs; they barely need menus. [When combined, they] suddenly look like software.

It turned out that building mobile software was a lot more like building hardware... where you had 1 shot and you had to get it right, right out of the gate.

What kind of programmer is so divorced from reality that she thinks she'll get complex software right the first time?

All the songs were written on guitar and then put into the computer, where I played around with different sounds I was hearing and what was available in the software.

If you love a medium made of software, there's a danger that you will become entrapped in someone else's recent careless thoughts. Struggle against that.

Of all the things you can spend a lot of money on, the only things you expect to fail frequently are software and medicine.

Software breaks before it bends, so it demands perfection in a universe that prefers statistics.

The great thing about crummy software is the amount of employment it generates.

The hardware and the software will come from Silicon Valley. But the watch case, the dial, the design, the idea, the crown, that part of the watch will, of course, be Swiss.

Being blind, I rely on software that talks to me.

Open source is an intellectual-property destroyer, I can't imagine something that could be worse than this for the software business and the intellectual-property business.

Indeed one of the best ways to deflect attacks is to make it look like they're succeeding. It's the software equivalent of playing dead.

Make a faster machine and people will flock to inefficient software.

I don't like creating software anymore. It's too exact. It's like karate; there's no room for error.

Adding last-minute features, whether in response to competitive pressure, as a developer's pet feature, or on the whim of management, causes more bugs in software than almost anything else.

I have mostly software synthesizers and software drum machines. I'm very lazy. I don't really like to plug in a lot of equipment and external boxes and everything.