Quotes and Sayings About Software
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Tip: Take the stodgiest, oldest, slowest moving industry you can find. And build amazing software for it.
-- Aaron Levie -
As for a picture, if it isn't worth a thousand words, the hell with it.
-- Ad Reinhardt -
With bundled machines you can throw away the hardware and keep the software, and it's still a good buy.
-- Adam Osborne -
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 -
Up to a point, it is better to just let the snags [bugs] be there than to spend such time in design that there are none.
-- Alan Turing -
Fight Features. … The only way to make software secure, reliable, and fast is to make it small.
-- Andrew S. Tanenbaum -
I developed some unique software to public it on the web that I call the Folklore Project.
-- Andy Hertzfeld -
I really think it is amazing that people actually buy software.
-- Bill Budge -
I just became one with my browser software.
-- Bill Griffith -
To most Christians, the Bible is like a software license. Nobody actually reads it. They just scroll to the bottom and click 'I Agree'.
-- Bill Maher -
Software as an asset isn't stable over time; it needs to be maintained.
-- Brian Behlendorf -
Constrain the user's expectations to match the abilities of the software.
-- Bruce Tognazzini -
[Core concepts: Human beings all have souls. Souls are software objects. Software is not immortal.]
-- Charles Stross -
It's hardware that makes a machine fast. It's software that makes a fast machine slow.
-- Craig Reucassel -
It's time to re-appreciate the original software: paper.
-- Dale Dauten -
I wrote a piece of software in 1998 that created fictional weather.
-- Daniel Suarez -
Software constraints are only confining if you use them for what they're intended to be used for.
-- David Byrne -
The only people who have anything to fear from free software are those whose products are worth even less.
-- David F. Emery -
To change the printout of the body, you must learn to rewrite the software of the mind.
-- Deepak Chopra -
... with proper design, the features come cheaply. This approach is arduous, but continues to succeed.
-- Dennis Ritchie -
It seems certain that much of the success of Unix follows from the readability, modifiability, and portability of its software.
-- Dennis Ritchie -
The hardest part of design ... is keeping features out.
-- Donald A. Norman -
The designer of a new kind of system must participate fully in the implementation.
-- Donald Knuth -
Only drug dealers and software companies call their customers 'users'
-- Edward Tufte -
Software engineering is not about right and wrong but only better and worse
-- Ellen Ullman -
Every good work of software starts by scratching a developers personal itch.
-- Eric S. Raymond -
Software is largely a service industry operating under the persistent but unfounded delusion that it is a manufacturing industry
-- Eric S. Raymond -
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.
-- Erik Naggum -
Adding manpower to a late software project makes it later
-- Fred Brooks
