Software Quotes - Page 4

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

The Postfix security model is based on keeping software simple and stupid.

My ma is an economist. My dad is a software engineer.

A brilliant author or businesswoman or senator or software engineer is brilliant only in tiny bursts. The rest of the time, they’re doing work that most any trained person could do.

Once GNU is written, everyone will be able to obtain good system software free, just like air.

Software development is technical activity conducted by human beings.

Then people started using it more and more and it became the most downloaded software on the internet.

On a strategic level, employers really are behaving stupidly. Look at how they do recruiting: this automated process under which they will publish a job description chock full of so-called "key words", and then have software algorithms that attempt to match applicants to the resumes against those key words. So where in the key word collection do we capture institutional knowledge? No one advertises for that. Of course they don't.

...your Web browser is Ronald Reagan.

There's only four things we do better than anyone else: music movies microcode (software) high-speed pizza delivery

What [software] must not do is not the inverse of what it must do. .

I think that freely available software can not only keep up with the evolution of commercial software, but often exceed what you can do commercially.

I obviously think that freely available software can not only keep up with the evolution of commercial software, but often exceed what you can do commercially.

There's a saying in the software design industry: "Good. Fast. Cheap. Pick two."

PowerPoint is the Rodney Dangerfield of software. It gets no respect.

Being blind, I rely on software that talks to me.

The great thing about crummy software is the amount of employment it generates.

Of all the things you can spend a lot of money on, the only things you expect to fail frequently are software and medicine.

It turned out that building mobile software was a lot more like building hardware... where you had 1 shot and you had to get it right, right out of the gate.

I am involved in the creation of software, and I'm also in the music business.

Plan to throw one (implementation) away; you will, anyhow.

Like many older fans of Free Software and Open Source, I have discovered that it is really only free in the sense that the time you spend on it is worthless.

Software is largely a service industry operating under the persistent but unfounded delusion that it is a manufacturing industry

Software constraints are only confining if you use them for what they're intended to be used for.

I wrote a piece of software in 1998 that created fictional weather.