Quotes About Software

Scrivener can be a tricky beast to get your head around. When you do, a bell rings, and suddenly it all seems perfectly clear. But to reach that stage you have to understand what it can do, and try it out for yourself. Which can be daunting.

Corporations have been killing the risk-taking and exploration that makes software great. They have tried to rip the soul out of development.

I'm a common sense person who tries to analyze and I have to look at all sides of the issue because you don't want software that only does something but doesn't fix the other errors.

I think software patents are a bad idea. Many patents are given for trivial inventions.

When I am starting a new game, I have to program it for the Apple, because I want to get all of the markets.

Writing code? That's the easy part. Getting your application in the hands of users, and creating applications that people actually want to use - now that's the hard stuff.

If something's expensive to develop, and somebody's not going to get paid, it won't get developed. So you decide: Do you want software to be written, or not?

There has never been an unexpectedly short debugging period in the history of computers.

To hackers, a program was an organic entity that had a life independent from that of its author.

I just became one with my browser software.

Everything is going to be connected to cloud and data... All of this will be mediated by software.

Any editing, software work, and mail is done in this exported Plan 9.

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

Software eventually and necessarily gained the same respect as any other discipline.

If you build a car, you can only sell it once. If you paint a fence, you only get paid for it once. If you create a piece of software that's essentially free to reproduce, you can keep getting paid over and over perpetually.

Proprietary software is an injustice.

You can mass-produce hardware; you cannot mass-produce software - you cannot mass-produce the human mind.

Software is the language of automation.

National security always matters, obviously. But the reality is that if you have an open door in your software for the good guys, the bad guys get in there, too.

For many people my software is something that you install and forget. I like to keep it that way.

Companies that make keys, credit card companies, any company in the service business - anything to do with a consumer is probably a software company.

There is a strong movement towards increased accountability for software developers and software development organizations.

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?

We shifted our philosophy from being a computer mapping group that would support planners to the idea of building actual software that would be well engineered. Because at that time, our software was not well-engineered at all; it was basically built with project funding and for project work, largely by ourselves.