Quotes About Software

I concluded that I know how to start and grow software companies. The worthwhile thing I could do was create livelihoods for people.

The iPhone was the first phone that brought what we used to think of as 'desktop quality' software to a handheld platform: software where you just say, 'Wow, that's a great user experience,' not merely, 'Wow, that's a great user experience for a handheld.'

Some of these isolated applications that sit on one machine are a million lines of code. How do you deal with that? Most people have no way to wrap their head around it.

Real programmers can write assembly code in any language.

If you want to write the software to control the national medical system of a large country, Java is perfect.

A lot of people assume that creating software is purely a solitary activity where you sit in an office with the door closed all day and write lots of code.

People who are more than casually interested in computers should have at least some idea of what the underlying hardware is like. Otherwise the programs they write will be pretty weird.

Some scientists use TeX or LatEX but for most people Word is the thing that writers use these days.

When I first got into technology I didn't really understand what open source was. Once I started writing software, I realized how important this would be.

Easytrak is no guarantee against mismanagement. But you cannot manage a large program without software like it today. It is a project information management system that helps people develop a solution to a problem with many parts to track.

I'm not really into the business of giving out tips, but if you are not using an all-encompassing software to integrate and sync your schedule, then you might be losing time. Most of these are free, and they can allow you to keep track of everything in one place and then access that from your computer, phone, or tablet.

There's not a long track record of people leaving professional sports to become a software developer.

By trade, I am a software programmer, so I never really had any experience with movies before. I started out with 'Paranormal Activity.'

After graduation, I took a job with Manufacturers Hanover Trust in software development. I don't think I was there more than a month.

Besides a cool name and a hot stock, what did Red Hat's investors get? Over the nine months ending November 30, the company produced $13 million in revenues, on which it ran a net loss of $9 million.13 Red Hat's business was barely bigger than a street-corner delicatessen—and a lot less lucrative. But traders, inflamed by the words "software" and "Internet," drove the total value of Red Hat's shares to $21.3 billion by December 9.

The hero's journey software in our heads is demanding to be lived out. The blanks are insisting on being filled in.

More often than not, what you open, unwrap and install on your hard drive is not what you were told you were getting.

I spend a fair amount of time on my computer, but I don't hack into anything. I have to open the manual and follow instructions.

Legacy code" often differs from its suggested alternative by actually working and scaling.

IBM veteran and computer science professor Frederick Brooks argued that adding manpower to complex software projects actually delayed progress.

Chris Brown, a software-development manager at the time.

Employees remember that when the home and kitchen category was introduced in the fall of 1999, kitchen knives would fly down the conveyor chutes, free of protective packaging. Amazon's internal logistics software didn't properly account for new categories, so the computers would ask workers whether a new toy entering the warehouse was a hardcover or a paperback book.

In the seminal high-tech book The Mythical Man-Month, IBM veteran and computer science professor Frederick Brooks argued that adding manpower to complex software projects actually delayed progress. One reason was that the time and money spent on communication increased in proportion to the number of people on a project.

Every piece of software written today is likely going to infringe on someone else's patent.