Quotes About Software

You can either have software quality or you can have pointer arithmetic, but you cannot have both at the same time.

If you want more effective programmers, you will discover that they should not waste their time debugging, they should not introduce the bugs to start with.

Some history clique had applied averaging software to the world's great spiritual books, then programmed it to spit out godlike decrees. For some reason, the software had told them not to eat pigs.

In the upper right corner, Gamma Matsui was kicking a new tech religion. Some history clique had applied averaging software to the world's great spiritual books, then programmed it to spit out godlike decrees. For some reason, the software had told them not to eat pigs. "Who would do that in the first place?" Aya asked.

When it comes to software, I much prefer free software, because I have very seldom seen a program that has worked well enough for my needs, and having sources available can be a life-saver.

First, solve the problem. Then write the code.

When you use other people's software you live in somebody else's dream.

There is a fundamental distinction, however, between approaches to designing technology to benefit humans and designing technology as an end in itself. Today, that distinction is expressed in whether increasingly capable computers, software, and robots are designed to assist human users or to replace them.

With all the advances in medicine and technology, why has someone not created a pill that cures heartbreak? Emotional penicillin. Why has someone not invented software that will sweep all traces of your ex out of your brain or an app that eliminates unrequited love?

I was just the one who upgraded her software and made sure that nothing broke down. If anyone was equipped for the job, it was me, the professional computational linguist.

Where do we find love and comfort in this comfortless, mechanical world? And above all, More wanted to know, where is God? Descartes's answer was confident and pat. God was the omnipotent Legislator who has made everything and installed all the necessary rules that govern the universe, including the laws of mathematics, rather the way the manufacturer installs software on a new Android. Then God steps aside and lets His creation "do its thing.

Understanding language is core to a lot of Google products such as Gmail.

Grant, if we edited Fortran, I assume that you'd put a column thing in there.

That's why it's often helpful to invest in a spreadsheet computer program such as Excel, a software package like Quicken, or any number of Internet sites, that can display and total all your investments.

Loading new software into new computers and using it for the first time was like playing Russian roulette. It demanded and got a lot of respect.

In fact, I've had many lawyers who I felt provided excellent advice and service during important decisions or difficult times. That being said, I always wondered why the law firms that serve the most innovative technology companies in the world rarely adopt innovative software or try to improve their business operations.

Perhaps all of us have come to rely too deeply on machinery and software to be our allies without wondering about the cost: the way technology doesn't fix problems without creating new ones.

'Programming' is a four-letter word.

I think malware is a significant threat because the mitigation, like antivirus software, hasn't evolved to a point to really mitigate the risk to a reasonable degree.

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

As an open system, Android is not under the tight control of its creator, Google.

Despite outsiders being invited to write software, the iPhone thus remains tightly tethered to its vendor - the way that the Kindle is controlled by Amazon.

What you have in most education software is that they're catering to the decision-maker who makes the budget allocations, and that decision-maker has a lot of check boxes. Does it do this? Check. Does it do that? Check. They could care less about the end user experience.

Originally, I was in both software and in online computing. The first innovation really was sort of at that time that we're marrying the telephone and the computer so that people wouldn't have to drive to the computer center. We didn't have $1 000 computers.