Quotes About Software

You haven't experienced awkwardness until you've seen a three-million-dollar piece of software cry.

Kidnapping is a harsh word." "But accurate. I assume you're not going to hang around Mars until I fix the software bug, if a problem ever existed. I'm on a one-way voyage to Slakeria, right?

The only code that doesn't have bugs is code that is not yet written.

I learned that programming was mostly typing. To this day, I don't understand why software development takes so long.

The only way for errors to occur in a program is by being put there by the author. No other mechanisms are known. Programs can't acquire bugs by sitting around with other buggy programs.

There does not now, nor will there ever exist, a programming language in which it is the least bit hard to write bad programs.

most shameful rip-off of the Mac operating system yet, but the software made their PCs good-enough facsimiles of the Mac.

If change is the only constant in the universe, then software change is not only constant but ubiquitous.

The software architecture of a system is the set of structures needed to reason about the system, which comprise software elements, relations among them, and properties of both.

For music, unlike a $500 software program, people are paying a buck or two a song, and it's those dollars and pennies that have to add up to pay for not just the cost of that song, but the investment in the next song.

The reason why Apple computers have worked so well over time is that, unlike Microsoft, they don't bend over backward to be compatible with every piece of hardware or software in the digital universe. To code or create for Apple, you follow Apple's rules. If you're even allowed to.

Old companies that had nothing to do with software in the past all have software development activities to unlock the invention that's occurring inside of these organizations. And so the developer is a very important part of that overall ecosystem.

Education should not be about building more schools and maintaining a system that dates back to the Industrial Revolution. We can achieve so much more, at unmatched scale with software and interactive learning.

I am a software engineer, a popular public speaker, and an expert in the Unreal engine.

It's simply unrealistic to depend on secrecy for security in computer software. You may be able to keep the exact workings of the program out of general circulation, but can you prevent the code from being reverse-engineered by serious opponents? Probably not. The secret to strong security: less reliance on secrets.

The iPod wasn't the first MP3 player. Nor were the iPhone and iPad the first in their categories. The real reason for the success of these devices - the true unsung hero at Apple - is the iTunes software and iTunes Store. Because Apple provided them, it wasn't just selling hardware.

The challenge with Postfix, or with any piece of software, is to update software without introducing problems.

My reply is: the software has no known bugs, therefore it has not been updated.

Received wisdom is that if you spend time up front getting the design right, you avoid costs later. But the longer you spend getting the design right, the more your upfront costs are, and the longer it takes for the software to start earning.

A program that has not been tested does not work.

As a rule, software systems do not work well until they have been used, and have failed repeatedly, in real applications.

I took a job in the U.S. because I wanted to work on products that would get into end users' hands. In Norway, most of the jobs are in server software, niche stuff.

A lot of people who work on open-source software don't mind making money elsewhere. They aren't anticommercial.

[We in Microsoft] are not the only software company but we are a great software company doing some unique work.