Quotes About Software

You shouldn't restrict peoples' freedom on what they can and cannot do with code.

Watching a program run is not as revealing as reading its code.

As technologists, we all write code.

I have never written a line of commercial code in my life. Nor should I.

I just think there's a general interest in the world of computers.

Computing technology started out as number-crunching.

Like all software, Qmail can survive only when it keeps up with changing requirements.

Production-wise, I've always stuck with Ableton Live and there's really no reason to switch to something else at this point.

The acquisition of Symphony Teleca... gives us immediate scale in software services. With the addition of cloud, mobility, and analytics competencies, we will accelerate solutions for the connected car and for a broader set of industries and markets.

Android is very different from the GNU/Linux operating system because it contains very little of GNU. Indeed, just about the only component in common between Android and GNU/Linux is Linux, the kernel.

Linux has never been about quality. There are so many parts of the system that are just these cheap little hacks, and it happens to run.

In a biological system, the software builds its own hardware, but design is critical, and if you start with digital information, it has to be really accurate.

Any sufficiently advanced bug is indistinguishable from a feature.

Lottie did everything the old fashioned way, including the bookkeeping, which was fine with me since I knew nothing about accounting software anyway. To me, spreadsheets was what I did on Saturday mornings after washing my bed linen.

The software is where the magic is. If you're going to have all this power be simple enough, appealing enough and cool enough, it's going to be because the software is right.

Microsoft has a division that studies the way people work, to develop efficiency-improving software. (According to Microsoft's research up to 2007, if you're looking for a technological solution to being more efficient, getting a bigger computer screen is one of the few clear winners.)

The Art of Computer Programming

Don't try to refactor and add functionality at the same time.

Artificial intelligence is a tool, not a threat

Interactive computers and software will, I think, provide a less costly method of doing some kinds of inquiry, in knowledge acquisition and even reasoning and interaction.

Our technology is very scalable. Our software can accommodate enormous numbers of clients. It's a marvelous opportunity. We'll keep developing products.

most developers don't test at all! They key in a few values at random and click a few buttons. If they don't get any unhandled exceptions, that code is ready for QA!

Writing code? That's the easy part. Getting your application in the hands of users, and creating applications that people actually want to use—now that's the hard stuff.

That's not to say that all software project management books are crap. Just most of them. One of the few that I've found compelling enough to finish is Johanna Rothman's "Behind Closed Doors: Secrets of Great Management." She co-wrote it with Esther Derby.