Quotes About Progress

I never was a great sports player. In fact, in fourth grade, I had the second to the worst softball throw.

The first approximation in this future that we're looking at is that everyone will be physically well off. They will have a great abundance in material goods, and I think that will soften some of the conflicts we see now.

Fair and softly goes far.

Software is eating the world, but AI is going to eat software.

Software eventually and necessarily gained the same respect as any other discipline.

In short, software is eating the world.

Software makes the world go round.

There is a strong movement towards increased accountability for software developers and software development organizations.

Writing genetic code like we do software will usher in a completely new way of living for all of us. When this happens, our society will be as fundamentally changed as we have seen from the invention of computers.

More and more major businesses and industries are being run on software and delivered as online services - from movies to agriculture to national defense.

There's nothing more frustrating than seeing cynics sit there and say, 'Well, nobody can make any more money because Microsoft and Intel own everything.' Is the software industry mature, or is it embryonic? I would say it's embryonic. There will be a hundred more Microsofts, not just one.

IT put India on the map of the world and told Indians that they are somebody in the world. There is something about technology that is very empowering: 'We are designing software for the best companies in the world.'

Our lives and our culture have been significantly changed and improved by hardware, software, and services developed by immigrants.

At Microsoft, the magic of software is used to take on very interesting challenges.

Companies in every industry need to assume that a software revolution is coming.

From day one our next generation system will run all our exsisting software - so that gives us a head start.

While the creative works from the 16th century can still be accessed and used by others, the data in some software programs from the 1990s is already inaccessible.

One of the problems with computers, particularly for the older people, is they were befuddled by them, and the computers have gotten better. They have gotten easier to use. They have gotten less expensive. The software interfaces have made things a lot more accessible.

The days when you needed amazing Silicon Graphics machines to run animation software are gone now.

The days when a car aficionado could repair his or her own car are long past, due primarily to the high software content.

If you know how to make software, then you can create big things.

All the reasons that have made software so successful are beginning to happen with hardware. So much can be done so quickly, prototyped so rapidly, and the costs are so low.

The process of software development doesn't feel any better than it did a generation ago.

Before I became a game designer, I was a software engineer.