1.
It's hardware that makes a machine fast. It's software that makes a fast machine slow.
Craig Reucassel
2.
Software comes from heaven when you have good hardware.
Ken Olsen
3.
With bundled machines you can throw away the hardware and keep the software, and it's still a good buy.
Adam Osborne
4.
Only drug dealers and software companies call their customers 'users'
Edward Tufte
5.
Software gets slower faster than hardware gets faster.
Niklaus Wirth
7.
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
9.
The cheapest, fastest, and most reliable components are those that aren't there.
Gordon Bell
12.
... with proper design, the features come cheaply. This approach is arduous, but continues to succeed.
Dennis Ritchie
15.
Never in the annals of software engineering was so much owed by so many to so few lines of code
Martin Fowler
16.
I developed some unique software to public it on the web that I call the Folklore Project.
Andy Hertzfeld
17.
Computers themselves, and software yet to be developed, will revolutionize the way we learn.
Steve Jobs
18.
The amateur software engineer is always in search of magic.
Grady Booch
19.
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.
Richard Stallman
20.
Software is getting slower more rapidly than hardware becomes faster.
Niklaus Wirth
21.
The biggest issue on software teams is making sure everyone understands what everyone else is doing.
Martin Fowler
22.
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
23.
To change the printout of the body, you must learn to rewrite the software of the mind.
Deepak Chopra
24.
Software is the magic thing whose importance only goes up over time.
Bill Gates
27.
Like any well designed software product, Windows is designed, developed and tested as an integrated whole.
Bill Gates
28.
The hardest single part of building a software system is deciding precisely what to build.
Fred Brooks
29.
Software is a great combination between artistry and engineering.
Bill Gates
30.
The only way to make software secure, reliable, and fast is to make it small.
Andrew S. Tanenbaum
31.
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.
Howard Rheingold
33.
Software will never replace the Koran.
Dan Wieden
34.
In the free/libre software movement, we develop software that respects users' freedom, so we and you can escape from software that doesn't.
Richard Stallman
36.
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
37.
There is a constant need for new systems and new software.
Marc Andreessen
38.
The designer of a new kind of system must participate fully in the implementation.
Donald Knuth
39.
Any good software engineer will tell you that a compiler and an interpreter are interchangeable.
Tim Berners-Lee
40.
There is this thing called the GPL (Gnu Public Licence), which we disagree with... nobody can ever improve the software.
Bill Gates
41.
When we started off we didn't know how to spell software.
Steve Jobs
43.
Software is a gas ! It expands to fit the container it is in !
Nathan Myhrvold
44.
Tip: Take the stodgiest, oldest, slowest moving industry you can find. And build amazing software for it.
Aaron Levie
45.
[We in Microsoft] are not the only software company but we are a great software company doing some unique work.
Bill Gates
46.
By trade, I am a software programmer, so I never really had any experience with movies before. I started out with 'Paranormal Activity.
Oren Peli
47.
For most software startups, this translates to keep growing. For hardware startups, it translates to don't let your ship date slip.
Sam Altman
48.
It seems certain that much of the success of Unix follows from the readability, modifiability, and portability of its software.
Dennis Ritchie
49.
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.
Kevin O'Leary
50.
As for a picture, if it isn't worth a thousand words, the hell with it.
Ad Reinhardt