Quotes About Software

I have absolutely no idea about space exploration. I'm a software guy. But because I'm a non-expert, I've been able to bring the software concept of modularity into the space sector, which was never done before.

developers are getting the benefits others pay for.

By the way, what is that you're working on?" "Software-configurable RAID grid." She pauses, a cable in each hand. "Go on, your ride will be waiting." "RAID grid being . . . ?" "Redundant Array of Interconnected Demons." She bares her teeth at him. "Demons!" he squeaks, and clutches his magic dice.

one of the quirkier cognitive disorders to which software project management is prone.

This document describes progress to date in establishing a defensive network capable of repelling wide-scale incursions by reconfiguring the national closed-circuit television surveillance network as a software-controlled look-to-kill multiheaded basilisk. To

when it isn't spending half its energy scanning for viruses or painting a pretty drop-shadow under the mouse pointer it runs like greased whippet shit.

But they're just software! Software based on fucking lobsters, for God's sake! I'm not even sure they are sentient—I mean, they're, what, a ten-million-neuron network hooked up to a syntax engine and a crappy knowledge base? What kind of basis for intelligence is that?

federal researchers cannot rule out mere chance as the cause of any variation in the performance of students who use these software products and students who do not.

También ha creado una plataforma de innovación, igual que el iPhone de Apple es una plataforma para desarrolladores de software independientes que construyen un negocio en torno a las aplicaciones propias que operan en el teléfono.

If you were building a real-time game like one of Zynga's games, the WordPress model wouldn't work well for that.

The interesting thing about Android's design is how little we modified the kernel.

A lot of that momentum comes from the fact that Linux is free.

on.  The main one is the PC, but Minecraft is also available for gaming systems.  So, you must figure out where you would like to play the game and get the necessary software. I prefer to play on my PC.  This offers me quick access to the internet so that I can fight other players and gather resources.  I also like this because I can find advice at any time while I'm

a cultura é o software de uma sociedade, um programa para cultivar a humanidade e dar forma à sua liberdade. (p. 154)

As the old joke goes: "Software, free. User manual, $10,000." But it's no joke. A couple of high-profile companies, like Red Hat, Apache, and others make their living selling instruction and paid support for free software. The copy of code, being mere bits, is free. The lines of free code become valuable to you only through support and guidance. A lot of medical and genetic information will go this route in the coming decades. Right now getting a full copy of all your DNA is

As the old joke goes: "Software, free. User manual, $10,000." But it's no joke.

As Tony Hoare observed: There are two ways of constructing a software design: one way is to make it so simple that there are obviously no deficiencies and the other is to make it so complicated that there are no obvious deficiencies.

Fixing bugs is not making progress. You aren't paid to debug. Debugging is waste.

one of software's biggest obstacles is smart people who purposefully propagate the guru myth.

If we accept that code is design — a creative process rather than a mechanical one — the software crisis is explained. We now have a design crisis: the demand for quality, validated designs exceeds our capacity to create them. The pressure to use incomplete design is strong.

Under the new policy, any time the NSA discovers a major flaw in software, it must disclose the vulnerability to vendors and others so the flaw can be patched.

Like conventional weapons, most digital weapons have two parts—the missile, or delivery system, responsible for spreading the malicious payload and installing it onto machines, and the payload itself, which performs the actual attack, such as stealing data or doing other things to infected machines. In this case, the payload was the malicious code that targeted the Siemens software and PLCs.

Source: Deep Shift – Technology Tipping Points and Societal Impact, Global Agenda Council on the Future of Software and Society, World Economic Forum, September 2015.

Age is like the newest version of a software — it has a bunch of great new features but you lost all the cool features the original version had.