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

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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

6.
The hardest part of design ... is keeping features out.
Donald A. Norman

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

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When done well, software is invisible.
Bjarne Stroustrup

9.
Software is a gas; it expands to fill its container.
Nathan Myhrvold

10.
I just became one with my browser software.
Bill Griffith

11.
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

13.
In short, software is eating the world
Marc Andreessen

14.
This is a software-powered world.
Satya Nadella

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

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

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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

25.
Defect-free software does not exist.
Wietse Venema

26.
Structure is translation software for your imagination.
James Scott Bell

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

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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

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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

32.
Software will never replace the Koran.
Dan Wieden

33.
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

34.
Good software, like wine, takes time.
Joel Spolsky

35.
Software engineering economics.
Barry Boehm

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.
Software is a gas ! It expands to fit the container it is in !
Nathan Myhrvold

38.
Tip: Take the stodgiest, oldest, slowest moving industry you can find. And build amazing software for it.
Aaron Levie

39.
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

40.
[We in Microsoft] are not the only software company but we are a great software company doing some unique work.
Bill Gates

41.
It seems certain that much of the success of Unix follows from the readability, modifiability, and portability of its software.
Dennis Ritchie

42.
For most software startups, this translates to keep growing. For hardware startups, it translates to don't let your ship date slip.
Sam Altman

43.
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

44.
As for a picture, if it isn't worth a thousand words, the hell with it.
Ad Reinhardt

45.
Software will get to be somewhat more mature, ah, but it will never be as predictable as most areas of engineering.
Bill Gates

46.
We will still be enormously profitable and by far the most profitable enterprise software company.
Larry Ellison

47.
My reply is: the software has no known bugs, therefore it has not been updated.
Wietse Venema

48.
Lisp ... made me aware that software could be close to executable mathematics.
L Peter Deutsch

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

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Experience doesn't necessarily teach anything.
Gerald Weinberg