Top 25 Software Quotes of 103 - Page 2

Defect-free software does not exist.

Wietse Venema

Technology, Doe, Software

Software is the magic thing whose importance only goes up over time.

Bill Gates

Magic, Importance, Software

Structure is translation software for your imagination.

James Scott Bell

Imagination, Structure, Software

James Scott Bell (2016). “Just Write: Creating Unforgettable Fiction and a Rewarding Writing Life”, p.127, "F+W Media, Inc."

Like any well designed software product, Windows is designed, developed and tested as an integrated whole.

Bill Gates

Window, Integrated, Software

The hardest single part of building a software system is deciding precisely what to build.

Fred Brooks

Building, Software, Hardest

Software is a great combination between artistry and engineering.

Bill Gates

Engineering, Combination, Software

Bill Gates, Janet Lowe (1998). “Bill Gates Speaks: Insight from the World's Greatest Entrepreneur”, p.70, John Wiley & Sons

In the free/libre software movement, we develop software that respects users' freedom, so we and you can escape from software that doesn't.

Richard Stallman

Movement, Software, Libre

"Is Android really free software?" by Richard Stallman, www.theguardian.com. September 19, 2011.

The only way to make software secure, reliable, and fast is to make it small.

Andrew S. Tanenbaum

Fighting, Way, Software

"Some Notes on the 'Who Wrote Linux' Kerfuffle, Release 1.5". www.cs.vu.nl. May 20, 2004.

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

Technology, Community, Software

Good software, like wine, takes time.

Joel Spolsky

Wine, Programming, Software

Software will never replace the Koran.

Dan Wieden

Software

I love software and I love technology.

Marc Benioff

Technology, Software

"RealTime CrunchUp: Salesforce's Benioff Talks Social Enterprise Strategy, Chatter And More". RealTime CrunchUp event, techcrunch.com. November 20, 2009.

We will still be enormously profitable and by far the most profitable enterprise software company.

Larry Ellison

Inspirational, Software, Enterprise

Lisp ... made me aware that software could be close to executable mathematics.

L Peter Deutsch

Mathematics, Made, Software

For whatever reason somebody can be convinced to buy a PC, it opens up a whole new market for all of us in the software business.

Kevin O'Leary

Reason, Software, Whole

Software will get to be somewhat more mature, ah, but it will never be as predictable as most areas of engineering.

Bill Gates

Engineering, Mature, Software

...it is simplicity that is difficult to make.

Bertolt Brecht

Simplicity, Difficult, Software Design

Software engineering economics.

Barry Boehm

Engineering, Economics, Software

Mingshu Li, Barry Boehm, Leon J. Osterweil (2005). “Unifying the Software Process Spectrum: International Software Process Workshop, SPW 2005, Beijing, China, May 25-27, 2005 Revised Selected Papers”, p.66, Springer Science & Business Media

Is it possible that software is not like anything else, that it is meant to be discarded: that the whole point is to always see it as a soap bubble?

Alan Perlis

Soap Bubbles, Software, Discarded

My reply is: the software has no known bugs, therefore it has not been updated.

Wietse Venema

Bugs, Software, Known

Any good software engineer will tell you that a compiler and an interpreter are interchangeable.

Tim Berners-Lee

Software, Engineers, Interpreter

Donald Knuth, Grady Booch, Linus Torvalds, Steve Wozniak, Vint Cerf (2011). “Leaders in Computing: Changing the Digital World”, p.44, BCS, The Chartered Institute