Software Quotes

Im a transactional lawyer; I negotiate all types of things, but with a particular focus in software licenses.

PowerPoint is the Rodney Dangerfield of software. It gets no respect.

I think the open software movement (and Linux in particular) is laudable.

For the average home-user, anti-virus software is a must.

Back in my day, I would probe by hand. Now you can get commercial software that does the job for you.

The use of pirated software in China is really quite a sizeable loss to our software producers.

So what makes me happy? I was really happy to build this house. That's it; building things. The trouble with software is that it's very hard to show your aunt in Florida what you've done.

I think I am very goal oriented. I'd like to win the America's cup. I'd like Oracle to be the No 1 software company in the world. I still think it is possible to beat Microsoft.

The only reason [not to use] perl is that some sysadmins don't allow software that they didn't pay for. By all means, let them send me money if it makes them feel better.

The free software community should be supported more widely. I’m totally in solidarity with what they do.

When it comes to software, I much prefer free software, because I have very seldom seen a program that has worked well enough for my needs, and having sources available can be a life-saver.

I think that freely available software can not only keep up with the evolution of commercial software, but often exceed what you can do commercially.

With software, you really can replicate and do a lot of very real and active development in parallel, and actually try it out and see what works.

I obviously think that freely available software can not only keep up with the evolution of commercial software, but often exceed what you can do commercially.

What we believe is going to be very important is the delivery of traditional software and services and hardware over the Net. That's a form of electronic marketplace.

If you look at the top 10 enterprise software companies, a lot of them are important but irrelevant companies. It's really important to be relevant and important.

We can't ever forget that the Internet now is just a staid utility. The exciting platforms are software applications that are very, very simple.

Patent law holds us back, in every which way, shape or form. There is place for it, in physical products, in pharmaceuticals, but in software in particular, there is no place for it.

My own personal dream is that the majority of the web runs on open source software.

As the web becomes more and more of a part of our every day lives, it would be a horrible tragedy if it was locked up inside of companies and proprietary software.

I think it's great that people now have access to Pro Tools and other recording software at home. I've never understood how anyone could be comfortable in a recording studio

What [software] must not do is not the inverse of what it must do. .

Requirement completeness: Requirements are sufficient to distinguish the desired behavior of the software from that of any other undesired program that might be designed. .

The ever-growing size of software applications is what makes Moore's Law possible: 'If we hadn't brought your computer to its knees, why would you go out and buy a new one?'

In the early days of the software industry, people cared about copyright and didn't give a damn about patents - they copied each other willy-nilly.

There's only four things we do better than anyone else: music movies microcode (software) high-speed pizza delivery

Then people started using it more and more and it became the most downloaded software on the internet.

Software development is technical activity conducted by human beings.

Even philosophers who did not mind psychology, claimed the brain was irrelevant because it was the hardware, and we only need to know about the software.

I wrote a lot of software to do various kinds of special things, and I loved the idea of composing pieces in an electronic studio.

That's software in the States that I helped to develop. It enables people with disabilities to improvise.

In 1991, I co-founded my first start-up, Ink Development, which made software for an early tablet computer.

Writing system software is like planning a family.If you make a mistake you have to live with it for 20 years.

Once GNU is written, everyone will be able to obtain good system software free, just like air.

It's clear that other problems such as [...] the domination of business over government, science, thought, and society, are much bigger than non-free software.

Grammar Checker – A software program that is not needed by those who know grammar and virtually useless for those who don’t.

I love making things, like software, and films, and laughter. And working with Gus Silber, to make the Funny Business book, has been a fantastic journey.

Even though I teach with 35mm, my method takes people by surprise, because it isn't fast, and it isn't about hardware or software, or even great results. It's about great process.

A brilliant author or businesswoman or senator or software engineer is brilliant only in tiny bursts. The rest of the time, they’re doing work that most any trained person could do.

I got a degree in math, from not a good school in Texas, and then I went to work as a software engineer. Just not glamorous at all.

I want people to understand the amazing, positive way our software can make leisure time more enjoyable, and work and businesses more successful.

[Apple and RIM] are probably restricted, in some sense, to a certain maximum. ... If you want to reach more people than that, you sort-of have to separate the hardware and the software issue.

A typical software project can present more opportunities to learn from mistakes than some people get in a lifetime.

I'm also a fan with sticking with the most standard software that millions of other users also use, because you get the benefit of all those other users' problems and solutions.

Some PhD physicists write software or work for hedge funds, but physics still has a problem with having very smart people but not enough opportunities.

My ma is an economist. My dad is a software engineer.

Early on, when software was developed by computer scientists, just people working with computers, people passed around software because that was how you got computers to do things.

Releasing Linux versions has always been a matter of higher code quality, good software architecture, and technical interest for the platform.

When it comes to e-book playback devices and software, I have always thought that the emphasis on ergonomic concerns as a tipping point for the end-user population was misplaced.

Cooperation is just like two pagodas - one hardware and one software. Combined, we can take the leadership position in the world.