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Quotes About Software

If the Monroe was like any other hotel I'd ever stayed in, it used a piece of software called a property management system, which kept track of every time a guest room door was opened from the outside using a keycard. So there was always what's called an audit trail.
~ Joseph Finder
A game concept is a description of a game detailed enough to begin discussing it as a potential commercial product—a piece of software that the public might want to buy.
~ Ernest Adams
How the fuck do you negotiate with a piece of software?
~ Ernest Cline
They may have used alien technology in these things," she said. "But the software they installed to run it all was clearly created by humans—overworked, underpaid programmers like me who take all kinds of shortcuts. The security protocols on the file-sharing system are a total joke. It only took me about five minutes to jailbreak this thing.
~ Ernest Cline
There was always a trick to beating a computer-controlled opponent. At a game like this, a gifted human player could always triumph over the game's AI, because software couldn't improvise. It could either react randomly, or in a limited number of predetermined ways, based on a finite number of preprogrammed conditions. This was an axiom in videogames, and would be until humans invented true artificial intelligence.
~ Ernest Cline
At a game like this, a gifted human player could always triumph over the game's AI, because software couldn't improvise. It could either react randomly, or in a limited number of predetermined ways, based on a finite number of preprogrammed conditions. This was an axiom in videogames, and would be until humans invented true artificial intelligence.
~ Ernest Cline
a gifted human player could always triumph over the game's AI, because software couldn't improvise. It could either react randomly, or in a limited number of predetermined ways, based on a finite number of preprogrammed conditions. This was an axiom in videogames, and would be until humans invented true artificial intelligence.
~ Ernest Cline
Not trusting my instincts any further, I loaded up a piece of high-end avatar dance software called Travoltra, which I'd downloaded and tested earlier that evening. The program took control of Parzival's movements, synching them up with the music, and all four of my limbs were transformed into undulating cosine waves. Just like that, I became a dancing fool. Art3mis
~ Ernest Cline
could always triumph over the game's AI, because software couldn't improvise. It could either react randomly, or in a limited number of predetermined ways, based on a finite number of preprogrammed conditions. This was an axiom in videogames, and would be until humans invented true artificial intelligence. Our second game came right down
~ Ernest Cline
probably because they didn't have to spend half their time acting as babysitters and disciplinarians. The OASIS software took care of that, ensuring that students remained quiet and in their seats. All the teachers had to do was teach.
~ Ernest Cline
The ONI's software and documentation have already been emailed to your private OASIS account
~ Ernest Cline
After releasing Mono 1.0, we started work on a new edition of Mono that will be released later in the year.
~ Miguel de Icaza
E-mail is the most influential application ever to appear on a personal computer, and it remains sadly deficient.
~ Alan Cooper
It doesn't cost anything to replicate code. So the companies that make code, that's why they've done so well. We take it for granted now, but why is it that code is free? It's because somebody built this self-replicating process.
~ George Dyson
Yet we still see continuous reports of bugs.
~ Vint Cerf
A well installed microcode bug will be almost impossible to detect.
~ Ken Thompson
one reason Theranos got into trouble was that it used a Silicon Valley model commonly applied to software, which can afford to have initial glitches and failures, for medical testing, which cannot.
~ Bent Flyvbjerg
It always helps to be a good programmer. It is important to like computers and to be able to think of things people would want to do with their computers.
~ Bill Budge
People everywhere love Windows.
~ Bill Gates
DOS is ugly and interferes with users' experience.
~ Bill Gates
I'm sorry that we have to have a Washington presence. We thrived during our first 16 years without any of this. I never made a political visit to Washington and we had no people here. It wasn't on our radar screen. We were just making great software.
~ Bill Gates
Since when has the world of computer software design been about what people want? This is a simple question of evolution. The day is quickly coming when every knee will bow down to a silicon fist, and you will all beg your binary gods for mercy.
~ Bill Gates
DNA is like a computer program but far, far more advanced than any software ever created.
~ Bill Gates
If you've never used Word, think of it as an add-in for people who can't seem to type their letters in Excel).
~ Bill Jelen