Software Quotes

People who are really serious about software should make their own hardware. (Alan Kay)
Software is like sex: it's better when it's free. View quote
Linus Torvalds
Most software today is very much like an Egyptian pyramid with millions of bricks piled on top of each other, with no structural integrity, but just done by brute force and thousands of slaves. View quote
Alan Kay
We're entering a new world in which data may be more important than software. View quote
Tim O'Reilly
While the creative works from the 16th century can still be accessed and used by others, the data in some software programs from the 1990s is already inaccessible. View quote
Lawrence Lessig
Reading computer manuals without the hardware is as frustrating as reading manuals without the software. View quote
Arthur C. Clarke
The next generation of interesting software will be done on the Macintosh, not the IBM PC. View quote
Bill Gates
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? View quote
Alan Perlis
Software is eating the world. View quote
Marc Andreessen
Fighting patents one by one will never eliminate the danger of software patents, any more than swatting mosquitoes will eliminate malaria. View quote
Richard Stallman
Adding manpower to a late software project makes it later. (Fred Brooks)
Fight Features. ... The only way to make software secure, reliable, and fast is to make it small. View quote
Andrew S. Tanenbaum
Google did a great job hacking the Web to create search - and then monetizing search with advertising. And Apple did a great job humanizing hardware and software so that formerly daunting computers and applications could become consumer-friendly devices - even a lifestyle brand. View quote
Douglas Rushkoff
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?' View quote
Allison Pearson
Back in my day, I would probe by hand. Now you can get commercial software that does the job for you. View quote
Kevin Mitnick
I think it is important for software to avoiding imposing a cognitive style on workers and their work. View quote
Edward R. Tufte
I developed some unique software to public it on the web that I call the Folklore Project. View quote
Andy Hertzfeld
Every piece of software written today is likely going to infringe on someone else's patent. View quote
Miguel de Icaza
Our strategy in dealing with patents in Mono is the same strategy that any other software developer would take. In the event of a patent claim, we will try to find prior art to the claim of the patent. View quote
Miguel de Icaza
Defect-free software does not exist. View quote
Wietse Venema
The challenge with Postfix, or with any piece of software, is to update software without introducing problems. (Wietse Venema)
For many people my software is something that you install and forget. I like to keep it that way. View quote
Wietse Venema
The technological landscape of the present day has enfranchised its own electorates - the inhabitants of the marketing zones in the consumer society, television audiences and news magazine readerships, who vote with money at the cash counter rather than with ballot paper at the polling booth. These huge and passive electorates are wide open to any opportunist using the psychological weaponry of fear and anxiety, elements that are carefully blanched out of the world of domestic products and consumer software. View quote
J. G. Ballard
In fact, my main conclusion after spending ten years of my life working on the TEX project is that software is hard. It's harder than anything else I've ever had to do. View quote
Donald Knuth
[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. View quote
Steve Ballmer