Quotes About Software

I love Scrivener. I've been using it since early 2007, and now I can't imagine working in anything else.

I think Movable Type is a really good product for certain applications.

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

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

Organizations want small changes in functionality on a more regular basis. An organization like Flickr deploys a new version of its software every half hour. This is a cycle that feeds on itself.

When we launched the first version of Basecamp in 2004, we decided to build software for small companies just like us.

Early versions of Microsoft Word left a lot to be desired. However, to the company's credit, it quickly learned where Word fell short, made the necessary changes, and repeatedly introduced new versions of the software.

I just thought making machines intelligent was the coolest thing you could do. I had a summer internship in AI in high school, writing neural networks at National University of Singapore - early versions of deep learning algorithms. I thought it was amazing you could write software that would learn by itself and make predictions.

I don't have a huge amount of gear, but on the software side, I have a number of plug-in chains that act as abstracted versions of real instruments.

We are focusing on four vertical markets - utilities, public sector, large enterprises, and transportation. And, we are building a software business as well that includes analytics, security, IOT platforms, and AI.

Trying to read our DNA is like trying to understand software code - with only 90% of the code riddled with errors. It's very difficult in that case to understand and predict what that software code is going to do.

I might seem biased, but I use Evernote every day. It came to me through my readers, who I'd asked for software recommendations via Twitter and Facebook. For seemingly every function, the answer was 'Man, you have to use Evernote.'

Certainly there's a phenomenon around open source. You know free software will be a vibrant area. There will be a lot of neat things that get done there.

As things go digital, the notion of new editions will go away. A publisher can add video and assessment content at scale, make the change in 30 seconds and it's just a software update.

One of the things that Java is good at is giving you this homogeneous view of a reality that's usually very heterogeneous.

If you're talking about Java in particular, Python is about the best fit you can get amongst all the other languages. Yet the funny thing is, from a language point of view, JavaScript has a lot in common with Python, but it is sort of a restricted subset.

From the point of view of the people who are using the platform, one of the most valuable things about Java is the consistency, the interoperability.

This will surprise some of your readers, but my primary interest is not with computer security. I am primarily interested in writing software that works as intended.

Programs are meant to be read by humans and only incidentally for computers to execute.

Computer programs are the most complex things that humans make.

There are only two things wrong with C++: The initial concept and the implementation.

Lisp has all the visual appeal of oatmeal with fingernail clippings mixed in.

Our civilization depends critically on software, and we have a dangerously low degree of professionalism in the computer fields

The Internet "browser"... is the piece of software that puts a message on your computer screen informing you that the Internet is currently busy and you should try again later.