Software Quotes

I really think it is amazing that people actually buy software.

~ Bill Budge

Accountants, machinists, medical technicians, even software writers that write the software for 'machines' are being displaced without upscaled replacement jobs. Retrain, rehire into higher paying and value-added jobs? That may be the political myth of the modern era. There aren't enough of those jobs.

~ Bill Gross

Software is a great combination between artistry and engineering.

~ Bill Gates

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

~ Marc Andreessen

The critical thing in developing software is not the program, it's the design. It is translating understanding of user needs into something that can be realized as a computer program.

~ Mitch Kapor

If we want users to like our software, we should design it to behave like a likeable person.

~ Alan Cooper

There are two methods in software design. One is to make the program so simple, there are obviously no errors. The other is to make it so complicated, there are no obvious errors.

~ Tony Hoare

Hey, I'm a good software engineer, but I'm not exactly known for my fashion sense. White socks and sandals don't translate to 'good design sense'.

~ Linus Torvalds

The i730 combines the familiarity of Windows Mobile software with the innovative design of Samsung that will be a popular choice for mobile professionals.

~ Suzan Delbene

Software is like gardening - one day I'll go behind the shed and clean up. But if nobody ever goes there, does it matter a lot?

~ Mike Krieger

People who are really serious about software should make their own hardware.

~ Alan Kay

In software systems it is often the early bird that makes the worm.

~ Alan Perlis

The joke about SAP has always been, it's making '50s German manufacturing methodology, implemented in 1960s software technology, delivered to 1970-style manufacturing organizations, like, it's really - yeah, the incumbency - they are still the lingering hangover from the dot-com crash.

~ Marc Andreessen

Technology no longer consists just of hardware or software or even services, but of communities. Increasingly, community is a part of technology, a driver of technology, and an emergent effect of technology.

~ Howard Rheingold

Every young person gets so excited about new software packages and new technology.

~ John Lasseter

We're building what I call 'software apartheid.' We're in the process of creating a divided society: those who can use technology on one side, and those who can't on the other. And it happens to divide neatly along economic lines.

~ Alan Cooper

One of the biggest problems that software developers face is that technology changes rapidly. It is very hard to stay current.

~ Vivek Wadhwa

Making sounds that literally no one has ever heard before because the software and the technology's never been there, and pairing that with great songwriting, then that's what's exciting for me. That's what I wanna do.

~ Flume

Defect-free software does not exist.

~ Wietse Venema

Life is a DNA software system.

~ Craig Venter

As every new breed of virus is conceived, created and released into the wild, another small change is made to the anti-virus software to combat the new threat.

~ Glenn Turner

There is one major problem with anti-virus software: It needs updating. Users cannot be relied upon to have even the anti-virus software in the first place, let alone be able or willing to pay for the updates.

~ Glenn Turner

Free software is software that respects your freedom and the social solidarity of your community. So it's free as in freedom.

~ Richard Stallman