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Quotes About Software

It's better to wait for a productive programmer to become available than it is to wait for the first available programmer to become productive.
~ Steve McConnell
The computer would do anything you programmed it to do.
~ Vinton Cerf
The chakras are very intelligent – they are like the software of the whole computer body.
~ Dharma Mittra
I use a really simple calendar program on my computer.
~ Jamie Zawinski
Bill Gates did predict that computers for people made sense because he wrote a basic.
~ Steve Wozniak
If you think you're a really good programmer... read Knuth's Art of Computer Programming... You should definitely send me a resume if you can read the whole thing.
~ Bill Gates
Owning a computer without programming is like having a kitchen and using only the microwave oven
~ Charles Petzold
There is only one real computer - the universe - whose hardware is made up of non-spatial states of consciousness and software is made up of superhuman as well as non-superhuman thoughts.
~ Kedar Joshi
Whereas smaller computer languages have features designed into them, C++ is unusual in having a whole swathe of functionality discovered, like a tract of 19th century Africa.
~ Unknown
In 1991, I co-founded my first start-up, Ink Development, which made software for an early tablet computer.
~ Pierre Omidyar
Besides, REAL computers have a rename system call.
~ Larry Wall
I never was much of a game player, but I loved to be on the computer.
~ Cory Arcangel
Early on, when software was developed by computer scientists, just people working with computers, people passed around software because that was how you got computers to do things.
~ Tim O'Reilly
See Section 5.6.1.4 of the PMBOK® Guide. For adaptive life cycle software projects, work performance data includes velocity, which is used to help establish a realistic scope of work for subsequent iterations.
~ Unknown
I started to write a new editor not too long ago and had it about half done after two days.
~ Bill Joy
There's an old joke among software developers. When something works in an unexpected but strangely effective way, the developers often kid, "Oh, that's not a bug. That's a future." While this is usually a joke, designers can use the same technique of reframing the problem when tackling their own projects. In fact, there's an old joke among designers: "It's not a problem. It's an opportunity.
~ Unknown
about 48 percent of GE's software is developed in India.
~ Daniel H. Pink
I often see people saying 'Nobody has produced an invulnerable software system; therefore, nobody will ever produce an invulnerable software system.
~ Daniel J. Bernstein
Indeed. With NT, I can usually see in a matter of minutes that what I'm trying to do simply can't be done with the available software.
~ Daniel J. Bernstein
making a bootable disk image and checking on your old machine
~ Daniel J. Levitin
One of the ways that Microsoft beat Apple way back in the day was that they were a lot more open; today, in the world I come from, the free software and open-source world, Microsoft is not generally viewed as open; they're viewed as proprietary.
~ Jimmy Wales
Traditional TV will have to innovate their TV delivery software in new ways beyond just offering their content in an app in order to change the viewing erosion of TV.
~ Mark Cuban
Be careful about virtual relationships with artificially intelligent pieces of software.
~ Larry Ellison
The thing is, there are so many different ways to make music these days with virtual instruments, software applications, physical instruments, and computer programs.
~ Mike Shinoda