“ There are no significant bugs in our released software that any significant number of users want fixed. ”
- Bill Gates- Copy
- 3.9K
“ Why shouldn't we give our teachers a license to obtain software, all software, any software, for nothing? Does anyone demand a licensing fee, each time a child is taught the alphabet? ”
- William Gibson- Copy
- 101
“ We really need it because Microsoft keeps releasing sloppier and sloppier software that needs a faster and faster machine. The speed is crazy. ”
- Ken Olsen- Copy
- 3.4K
“ The chief limiting factor for e-business is a skill shortage-not the ability to buy hardware and software-or lack of ideas or capital. ”
- John Patrick- Copy
- 58
“ Is it possible that software is not like anything else, that it is meant to be discarded: that the whole point is to always see it as a soap bubble? ”
- Alan Perlis- Copy
- 1.4K
“ As a rule, software systems do not work well until they have been used, and have failed repeatedly, in real applications. ”
- Dave Parnas- Copy
- 3K
“ It's important that design gets 'cooked' into the product at the start, whether you're talking about software, office space, or a web design. It's not an afterthought. ”
- Alan Webber- Copy
- 1.8K
“ Personalization: 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. ”
- David Weinberger- Copy
- 2.1K
“ The suddenness of the leap from hardware to software cannot but produce a period of anarchy and collapse, especially in the developed countries. ”
- Marshall McLuhan- Copy
- 3.1K
“ Analytical software enables you to shift human resources from rote data collection to value-added customer service and support where the human touch makes a profound difference. ”
- Bill Gates- Copy
- 3.7K
“ It's scary to think that the infrastructure of the industrialized world is increasingly based on software like this. ”
- Stephen Wolfe- Copy
- 3K
“ Brooks' Law: Adding manpower to a late software project makes it later. ”
- Fred Brooks- Copy
- 569
“ 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. ”
- Dave Barry- Copy
- 3.4K
“ It's hardware that makes a machine fast. It's software that makes a fast machine slow. ”
- Craig Bruce- Copy
- 2.3K
“ So we do software for watches, for phones, for TV sets, for cars. And some of these take a long time to catch on. ”
- Bill Gates- Copy
- 3.6K
“ 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. ”
- Howard Gardner- Copy
- 904
“ The IBM PC was a huge milestone, including a model where the hardware competes separately from the software. The fundamental advantage of that model - and what it's meant for the PC industry - is still not recognized by people who don't realize how critical that was… ”
- Bill Gates- Copy
- 2.5K
“ The American Dream one of the greatest ideas in the history of human achievement … It thrives today in an age when its core components of freedom and opportunity are open to more Americans than ever before. It holds a real, identifiable place in the American heart and mind, and it informs the aspirations of everyone from farmers to software developers, from detectives to bankers, from soldiers to social workers … It defines us as a people, even as we add to its meaning with each new chapter in our national experience and our individual actions. ”
- Dan Rather- Copy
- 4K
“ The 1980s will seem like a walk in the park when compared to new global challenges, where annual productivity increases of 6% may not be enough. A combination of software, brains, and running harder will be needed to bring that percentage up to 8% or 9%. ”
- Jack Welch- Copy
- 3K
“ There are two ways of constructing a software design: One way is to make it so simple that there are obviously no deficiencies, and the other way is to make it so complicated that there are no obvious deficiencies. The first method is far more difficult. ”
- C.A.R. Hoare- Copy
- 1.7K
“ But I'm talking about responsibility, a sense of responsibility. Developing software to help human beings develop more of a sense of responsibility. Kids need that. Adults need it too. More self worth. More self-respect. ”
- Herbie Hancock- Copy
- 1K
“ My experience has been that if you're a consultant who charges $1000 per day, you have to deliver a real product, like software code. But if you charge $10,000 per day, all you have to do is go to dinner with the company president. ”
- Donald Norman- Copy
- 3.7K
“ Software is a great combination between artistry and engineering. When you finally get done and get to appreciate what you have done it is like a part of yourself that you've put together. I think a lot of the people here feel that way. ”
- Bill Gates- Copy
- 2.4K
“ Software is usually accompanied by documentation in the form of big fat scary manuals that nobody ever reads. In fact, for the past five years most of the manuals shipped with software products have actually been copies of Stephen King's The Stand with new covers pasted on. ”
- Dave Barry- Copy
- 2.5K
“ Programming today is a race between software engineers stirring to build bigger and better idiot-proof programs, and the universe trying to produce bigger and better idiots. So far, the universe is winning. ”
- Linus Torvalds- Copy
- 814
“ Fatware has been a nasty little dance that we've endured for most of this decade. Intel builds a hot new machine and Microsoft follows quickly with new and ever more bulky software that consumes all of the new machine's resources to do its stuff. So, Intel builds another machine. ”
- James Coates- Copy
- 2.7K
“ I am a design chauvinist. I believe that good design is magical and not to be lightly tinkered with. The difference between a great design and a lousy one is in the meshing of the thousand details that either fit or don't, and the spirit of the passionate intellect that has tied them together, or tried… ”
- Ted Nelson- Copy
- 1.6K
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