Quotes About Software

Internet Explorer, Microsoft's crashware turd that no one under the age of forty used voluntarily.

But the people who had to use the software were never actually consulted in the purchase cycle, so why bother to

But the people who had to use the software were never actually consulted in the purchase cycle, so why bother to make the software any good for those people?

If capital is what produces a stream of income - and that is a definition no one seems to quarrel with - then it follows that software is a form of capital. It has always been difficult to measure any form of knowledge capital, but in the past the problem was not as urgent, since the ratio of difficult-to-quantify knowledge capital to more tangible capital was not as high or growing as rapidly as it is today.

Asked about the fact that Apple's iTunes software for Windows computers was extremely popular, Jobs joked, 'It's like giving a glass of ice water to somebody in hell.

The best way to predict the future is to invent it" and "People who are serious about software should make their own hardware.

another approach to the creation of software emerged. It was pushed by one of the diehard denizens of the MIT Artificial Intelligence Lab and Tech Model Railroad Club, Richard Stallman

Micro-Soft BASIC: Paul Allen wrote the non-runtime stuff. Bill Gates wrote the runtime stuff. Monte Davidoff wrote the math package.

Stallman issued a manifesto: "I consider that the Golden Rule requires that if I like a program I must share it with other people who like it. Software sellers want to divide the users and conquer them, making each user agree not to share with others. I refuse to break solidarity with other users in this way. . . . Once GNU is written, everyone will be able to obtain good system software free, just like air."123

stories on the company's woes. "NeXT is incompatible with other computers at a time when the industry is moving toward interchangeable systems," Bart Ziegler of Associated Press reported. "Because relatively little software exists to run on NeXT

Outside of Search, Google's products—Android, Google Docs—are shit.

relented, but it left Hertzfeld with a bad taste. When his leave was coming to an end, Hertzfeld made an appointment to have dinner with Jobs, and they walked from his office to an Italian restaurant a few blocks away. "I really want to return," he told Jobs. "But things seem really messed up right now." Jobs was vaguely annoyed and distracted, but Hertzfeld plunged ahead. "The software team is completely

Torvalds and Eric Raymond began to use, open-source software, which emphasized the pragmatic goal of getting people to collaborate in order to create software more effectively.

So starting in 1999 Apple began to produce application software for the Mac, with a focus

the beginning of 2002 Apple faced a challenge. The seamless connection between your iPod, iTunes software, and computer made it easy to manage the music you

The only problem with Microsoft is they just have no taste, they have absolutely no taste

So Apple needed a partner, one that could make a stable operating system, preferably one that was UNIX-like and had an object-oriented application layer. There was one company that could obviously supply such software—NeXT—but it would take a while for Apple to focus on it. Apple first homed in on

His product comes with an interesting feature called incompatibility," Gates told the Washington Post. "It doesn't run any of the existing software. It's a super-nice computer. I don't think if I went out to design an incompatible computer I would have done as well as he did.

Dan Bricklin, who conceived the first financial spreadsheet program, VisiCalc.

One was how computers could be networked; the second was how object-oriented programming worked.

que el hardware se convertiría en una mercancía más y que sería en la programación donde radicaría el verdadero valor. Hasta la irrupción de Bill Gates, esta idea se les escapaba a la mayoría de los hombres.

take gets beamed back to our servers and skimmed by an algorithm reader, which is a piece of software that's maybe as smart as a puppy. It sits up and barks when something really unusual happens in its field of vision.

To a programmer, an operating system is defined by its API.

Core concepts: Human beings all have souls. Souls are software objects. Software is not immortal.]