Software Quotes

It's hardware that makes a machine fast. It's software that makes a fast machine slow.

Software comes from heaven when you have good hardware.

With bundled machines you can throw away the hardware and keep the software, and it's still a good buy.

Only drug dealers and software companies call their customers 'users'

Software gets slower faster than hardware gets faster.

The hardest part of design ... is keeping features out.

To most Christians, the Bible is like a software license. Nobody actually reads it. They just scroll to the bottom and click 'I Agree'.

When done well, software is invisible.

Software is a gas; it expands to fill its container.

I just became one with my browser software.

The cheapest, fastest, and most reliable components are those that aren't there.

... with proper design, the features come cheaply. This approach is arduous, but continues to succeed.

In short, software is eating the world

This is a software-powered world.

Never in the annals of software engineering was so much owed by so many to so few lines of code

I developed some unique software to public it on the web that I call the Folklore Project.

Computers themselves, and software yet to be developed, will revolutionize the way we learn.

Proprietary software tends to have malicious features. The point is with a proprietary program, when the users dont have the source code, we can never tell. So you must consider every proprietary program as potential malware.

The amateur software engineer is always in search of magic.

Software is getting slower more rapidly than hardware becomes faster.

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.

The biggest issue on software teams is making sure everyone understands what everyone else is doing.

To change the printout of the body, you must learn to rewrite the software of the mind.

Software is the magic thing whose importance only goes up over time.

Defect-free software does not exist.

Like any well designed software product, Windows is designed, developed and tested as an integrated whole.

Structure is translation software for your imagination.

The hardest single part of building a software system is deciding precisely what to build.

Software is a great combination between artistry and engineering.

The only way to make software secure, reliable, and fast is to make it small.

Technology no longer consists just of hardware or software or even services, but of communities. Increasingly, community is a part of technology, a driver of technology, and an emergent effect of technology.

In the free/libre software movement, we develop software that respects users' freedom, so we and you can escape from software that doesn't.

Good software, like wine, takes time.

Software will never replace the Koran.

Software engineering economics.

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?

It seems certain that much of the success of Unix follows from the readability, modifiability, and portability of its software.

For most software startups, this translates to keep growing. For hardware startups, it translates to don't let your ship date slip.

As for a picture, if it isn't worth a thousand words, the hell with it.

Software will get to be somewhat more mature, ah, but it will never be as predictable as most areas of engineering.

For whatever reason somebody can be convinced to buy a PC, it opens up a whole new market for all of us in the software business.

We will still be enormously profitable and by far the most profitable enterprise software company.

My reply is: the software has no known bugs, therefore it has not been updated.

Lisp ... made me aware that software could be close to executable mathematics.

Uruguay is one of the biggest producers of software. We are breaking with the neoliberal model. We do not believe in free trade.

Experience doesn't necessarily teach anything.

There is a constant need for new systems and new software.

Any good software engineer will tell you that a compiler and an interpreter are interchangeable.

The designer of a new kind of system must participate fully in the implementation.

There is this thing called the GPL (Gnu Public Licence), which we disagree with... nobody can ever improve the software.