Quotes About Software

Freelance software designers in San Francisco may realize they have more in common with factory workers in western Pennsylvania than they do with the men and women who run Apple, Facebook, or Amazon.

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.

I got bitten by the free software bug in February of 1998 around the time of the Mozilla announcement.

I believe OS/2 is destined to be the most important operating system, and possibly program, of all time.

By the time Apple's Macintosh operating system finally falls into the public domain, there will be no machine that could possibly run it. The term of copyright for software is effectively unlimited.

Of course, I have my own limits as to how much game software I can take care of at any one time.

The number of lines of code a programmer can write in a fixed period of time is the same independent of the language used.

More software projects have gone awry for lack of calendar time than for all other causes combined.

Digital is expensive, from the computers to the professional software to the technicians, but digital helps me to create more beautiful images in less time.

With .NET once an API is published it's available to all programming languages at the same time.

It's probably fair to say that the ratio of time our Connector developers spend in the debugger versus the Emacs buffer is higher than with most software.

If there could've ever been a magical time to build an enterprise software company, now is absolutely that time.

I discovered shooting and filmmaking around the time all of the software became affordable to anyone with a PC.

Hal's internal fault predictor could have made a mistake." "It's more

In June 1991 he took the drastic step of asking a friend to post PGP on a Usenet bulletin board. PGP is just a piece of software, and so from the bulletin board it could be downloaded by anyone for free. PGP was now loose on the Internet.

JesteÅ› tak przydatny jak pomoc Microsoftu.

You mean you don't stage the software?" I asked him. "You don't test it?" "Why should we? Everything we do is live all the time, always new, minute by minute.This is the Web! Code it, post it, run it, change it, run it again.

Then, just when it seemed that only the barest of bugs survived, there would be a new version of the software. And with that, a fresh opportunity for introducing bugs.

The computer is no better than its program.

Apple makes great hardware. The reality is, in the OS, we see things differently.

People will buy hardware just to buy a single game if the game is really compelling.

Oracle is my second job ever that did not involve waitressing. But I still have my waitress apron just in case this does not work out. It's just that I fell in love with software when I was programming in college. When I was an investment banker, there were mostly mainframe companies and very few software ones.

We collectively, to get things done, work together as a team. Because the work really happens horizontally in our company, not vertically. Products are horizontal. It takes hardware plus software plus services to make a killer product.

I see three forces militating in favor of growing inequality: increasing measurement of worker value added, automation through smart software, and globalization.