Quotes About Software

Virtual reality is a tough sell for a software developer. They have to convince investors that not only are they going to build a good game, which is what they normally have to do, they have to convince them that it's going to be a good game and that virtual reality will be successful.

We support about 5,000 non-governmental organizations (NGOs) with software, training, and technical support. We provide our software at virtually no cost to them, and they're lighting up the world with what they do.

The Internet browser is the most susceptible to viruses. The browser is naive about downloading and executing software. Google is trying to help by releasing the Chrome browser as open source.

We're trying to make our software available to users in as economically efficient a way as possible. That means distributing the software directly to them; taking payment through Mastercard, Visa, Paypal, and other options; and not having a store take 30 percent.

Hiring people to write code to sell is not the same as hiring people to design and build durable, usable, dependable software.

A design remedy that prevents bugs is always preferable to a test method that discovers them.

If we want users to like our software we should design it to behave like a likeable person: respectful, generous and helpful.

More than the act of testing, the act of designing tests is one of the best bug preventers known.

Software and hardware design is less different than software designers think, but more different than hardware designers think.

I think psychoanalyze-pinhead is the important lesson of GNU Emacs.

Yaz?l?m konusunda iddial? insanlar kendi donan?mlar?n? yapmal?lar.

The hardware and the software will come from Silicon Valley. But the watch case, the dial, the design, the idea, the crown, that part of the watch will, of course, be Swiss.

Most software has a tiny essence that justifies its existence, everything after that is wants and desires mistaken for needs and necessities.

Premature optimization is the root of all evil.

When a software development process moves to daily test cycles, we gain the benefits of smaller changes, fewer open bugs, faster feedback, and faster cycle time.

Beware of bugs in the above code; I have only proved it correct, not tried it.

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

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What kind of programmer is so divorced from reality that she thinks she'll get complex software right the first time?

the modern relationship between software and hardware is essentially the same as that between music and the instrument or voice that brings it to life. A single computer can transform itself into the cockpit of a fighter jet, a budget projection, a chapter of a novel, or whatever else you want, just as a single piano can be used to play Bach or funky blues.

a new open-interface standard that would allow hardware and software to evolve independently.

two young Multicians, named Dan Bricklin and Bob Frankston, who would go on to galvanize the emerging microcomputer industry with a little program called VisiCalc, the first electronic spreadsheet.

Since he'd based it on an earlier, experimental language by Thompson, code-named "B," Ritchie code-named his language "C.

In his first year at Intel he met some superstar Russian software designers who worked under contract for the chipmaker, and he realized that they could be an important resource for him.