Software Quotes - page 17

The only thing I understand deeply, because in my teens I was thinking about it, and every year of my life, is software. So I'll never be hands-on on anything except software. (Bill Gates)
Certainly there's a phenomenon around open source. You know free software will be a vibrant area. There will be a lot of neat things that get done there. View quote
Bill Gates
People can criticize Microsoft for supporting this TV thing for the past eight years, but it is a long-term bet, ... There is not any other software business that is as dedicated to the vision of the TV and the PDA personal digital assistant as we are. View quote
Bill Gates
Im not a Luddite completely I believe in refrigerators to cool my martinis, and washing machines because I hate to see women smacking their laundry against a rock. When I hear about hardware, I think of pots and pans, and when I hear about software, I think of sheets and towels. View quote
Studs Terkel
The clumsiness of people who have to engage their brain at every step is unbearably painful to watch, at least to me, and that's what the novice-friendly software makes people do, because there's no elegance in them, it's just a mass of features to be learned by rote. However, this suits people a hell of a lot better than setting out at age 6 to become a great ballet dancer and achieving their goal 20 years later after every tendon and muscle and joint has been asked to perform just a little bit more than nature ever intended over and over and over again. To most people, this is insanity. But in reality, it's art, and it's the art in what we do that makes us human. View quote
Erik Naggum
1,3,7-trimethylxanthine – a basic ingredient in quality software. View quote
Erik Naggum
The novice-friendly software is more like a misbehaving dog: it shits on the floor, it destroys things, and stinks – the novice-friendly software embodies the opposite of what computer people have dreamed of for decades: artificial stupidity. It's more human. View quote
Erik Naggum
It is not just software glitches and corrupted memory cards that should be on the minds of election officials. Hackers pose another very real problem whereby an election could be tilted towards a favored candidate. View quote
Bob Barr
All software sucks. View quote
Alan Cox
We speak of 'software eating the world,' 'the Internet of Things,' and we massify 'data' by declaring it 'Big.' But these concepts remain for the most part abstract. It's hard for many of us to grasp the impact of digital technology on the 'real world' of things like rocks, homes, cars, and trees. We lack a metaphor that hits home. View quote
John Battelle
My own theory is that we are in the middle of a dramatic and broad technological and economic shift in which software companies are poised to take over large swathes of the economy. (Marc Andreessen)
There is a constant need for new systems and new software. View quote
Marc Andreessen
More and more major businesses and industries are being run on software and delivered as online services - from movies to agriculture to national defense. View quote
Marc Andreessen
Qualified software engineers, managers, marketers and salespeople in Silicon Valley can rack up dozens of high-paying, high-upside job offers any time they want, while national unemployment and underemployment is sky high. View quote
Marc Andreessen
TV and the press have always functioned according to the same sets of rules and technical standards. But the Internet is based on software. And anybody can write a new piece of software on the Internet that years later a billion people are using. View quote
Marc Andreessen
On the back end, software programming tools and Internet-based services make it easy to launch new global software-powered start-ups in many industries - without the need to invest in new infrastructure and train new employees. View quote
Marc Andreessen
The days when a car aficionado could repair his or her own car are long past, due primarily to the high software content. View quote
Marc Andreessen
Over the next 10 years, I expect many more industries to be disrupted by software, with new world-beating Silicon Valley companies doing the disruption in more cases than not. View quote
Marc Andreessen
Perhaps the single most dramatic example of this phenomenon of software eating a traditional business is the suicide of Borders and corresponding rise of Amazon. View quote
Marc Andreessen
Today's leading real-world retailer, Wal-Mart, uses software to power its logistics and distribution capabilities, which it has used to crush its competition. View quote
Marc Andreessen
I regularly read Internet user groups filled with messages from people trying to solve software incompatibility problems that, in terms of complexity, make the U.S. Tax Code look like Dr. Seuss. (Dave Barry)
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 ne. View quote
Dave Barry
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. View quote
Dave Barry
Asked about the fact that Apple's iTunes software for Windows computers was extremely popular, Jobs joked, 'It's like giving a glass of ice water to somebody in hell. View quote
Walter Isaacson
Software patents may be used as a form of outright coercion, providing protection against theft of ideas as a potentially high cost to future inventors. View quote
Nathaniel Borenstein