Software Quotes - page 5

Software is like entropy. It is difficult to grasp, weighs nothing, and obeys the second law of thermodynamics; i.e. it always increases. (Norman Ralph Augustine)
My best decision was to choose to go to Wall Street over law. I learned a lot and focused on the expanding software industry at a time when the independent software industry was just beginning. View quote
Safra A. Catz
I think the most difficult thing had been scaling the infrastructure. Trying to support the response we had received from our users and the number of people that were interested in using the software. View quote
Shawn Fanning
One of the problems with computers, particularly for the older people, is they were befuddled by them, and the computers have gotten better. They have gotten easier to use. They have gotten less expensive. The software interfaces have made things a lot more accessible. View quote
Steve Case
I think that the most beautiful thing lately hasn't been in hardware or software per se but collaboration - the idea behind Napster, which uses the distributed power of the Internet as its engine. View quote
Steven Levy
My ma is an economist. My dad is a software engineer. View quote
Suraj Sharma
Enterprise is hard work. You have to integrate the client with the optimized systems of all the servers and software. View quote
Samuel J. Palmisano
Most of the effort in the software business goes into the maintenance of code that already exists. View quote
Wietse Venema
However, writing software without defects is not sufficient. In my experience, it is at least as difficult to write software that is safe - that is, software that behaves reasonably under adverse conditions. View quote
Wietse Venema
In a previous life I wrote the software that controlled my physics experiments. That software had to deal with all kinds of possible failures in equipment. That is probably where I learned to rely on multiple safety nets inside and around my systems. View quote
Wietse Venema
This will surprise some of your readers, but my primary interest is not with computer security. I am primarily interested in writing software that works as intended. (Wietse Venema)
When I write software, I know that it will fail, either due to my own mistake, or due to some other cause. View quote
Wietse Venema
The Postfix security model is based on keeping software simple and stupid. View quote
Wietse Venema
I want to avoid locking people into solutions that work only with Postfix. People should have a choice in what software they want to use with Postfix, be it anti-virus or otherwise. View quote
Wietse Venema
Qmail out of the box works fine, so people will want to use it regardless of licensing restrictions, even when the software does not ship with their system software. View quote
Wietse Venema
Like all software, Qmail can survive only when it keeps up with changing requirements. View quote
Wietse Venema
My reply is: the software has no known bugs, therefore it has not been updated. View quote
Wietse Venema
Writing software that's safe even in the presence of bugs makes the challenge even more interesting. View quote
Wietse Venema
One is forced to assume that ordinary people have the computational capabilities and statistical software of econometricians. View quote
Gerd Gigerenzer
A tablet without software is just an inconveniently fragile and poorly reflective mirror, so the thing I want to be sure of when I buy a device is that I don't have to implicitly trust one corporation's judgment about what software I should and shouldn't be using. View quote
Cory Doctorow
I think the open software movement (and Linux in particular) is laudable. (Ken Thompson)
Originally, I wanted a machine that would cost $100. My idea was to spend nothing on the console technology so all the money could be spent on improving the interface and software. If we hadn't used NAND flash memory [to store data such as games and photos] and other pricey parts, we might have succeeded. View quote
Shigeru Miyamoto
It's not the union between my head and the electronic eye what makes me feel 'cyborg', it's the union between the software and my brain. View quote
Neil Harbisson
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. View quote
Louis V. Gerstner
Then we have computer science. It is true that software cannot exercise its powers of lightness except through the weight of hardware. But it is the software that gives the orders, acting on the outside world and on machines that exist only as functions of software and evolve so that they can work out ever more complex programs. The second industrial revolution, unlike the first, does not present us with such crushing images as rolling mills and molten steel, but with "bits" in a flow of information traveling along circuits in the form of electronic impulses. The iron machines still exist, but they obey the orders of weightless bits. View quote
Italo Calvino