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• This is what our customers are asking for to take them to the next level and free them from the bondage of mainframe and client-server software.

  Marc Benioff

  Next Level, Asking, Levels

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• It is food - we now know that food is information, not just calories, and that it can upgrade your biologic software. The majority of chronic disease is primarily a food borne illness. We ate ourselves into this problem and we have to eat ourselves out of it.

  Mark Hyman, M.D.

  Majority, Disease, Information

  "Can Social Networks Cure Disease? Part I" by Mark Hyman, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 20, 2012.

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

  Bill Gates

  Magic, Importance

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• Any editing, software work, and mail is done in this exported Plan 9

  Dennis Ritchie

  Editing, Done, Mail

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• The free software community should be supported more widely. I’m totally in solidarity with what they do.

  Laura Poitras

  Community, Should, Solidarity

  "Laura Poitras on the Crypto Tools That Made Her Snowden Film Possible" by Andy Greenberg, www.wired.com. October 15, 2014.

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• A competitive threat is not the same thing as an antitrust violation… It is difficult to make out FairSearch’s precise antitrust arguments. There are alternatives to ITA’s software: both the GDSs but also upstarts such as the U.K.’s Everbread Ltd., which has relationships with 60 low-cost carriers, and Vayant Travel Technologies LLC of New York. It isn’t clear, therefore, that competition would be reduced even if Googled didn’t honor ITA’s contracts with other travel companies.

  Peter Gallagher

  New York, Technology, Competition

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• To treat programming scientifically, it must be possible to specify the required properties of programs precisely. Formality is certainly not an end in itself. The importance of formal specifications must ultimately rest in their utility -in whether or not they are used to improve the quality of software or to reduce the cost of producing and maintaining software.

  Jim Horning

  Learning, Quality, Cost

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• At one time, I hated the iPhone - but that was only before I used one for the first time. Now, it would be difficult for me to make the switch to any other platform. I've spent a fair amount of money on apps that continue to ride with me as I upgrade my iS devices. The iPhone certainly has its share of flaws and shortcomings, but having spent a great deal of time with other devices that claim to be "killer" continue to fall short. The industry needs competition, but I just need my mobile communications computer to work with a healthy array of software.

  Chris Pirillo

  Fall, Communication, Iphone

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• Except for its backward compatibility with existing Wii software and accessories, we have so far failed to make propositions worthy of Wii U's position as a successor to the Wii system.

  Satoru Iwata

  Playing Games, Accessories, Wii

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• So we do software for watches, for phones, for TV sets, for cars. And some of these take a long time to catch on.

  Bill Gates

  Phones, Long, Car

  "One-on-One with Bill Gates". Interview with Peter Jennings, abcnews.go.com. February 16, 2005.

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• To make an embarrassing admission, I like video games. That's what got me into software engineering when I was a kid. I wanted to make money so I could buy a better computer to play better video games. Nothing like saving the world.

  Elon Musk

  Inspirational, Kids, Engineering

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• In the emerging, highly programmed landscape ahead, you will either create the software or you will be the software. It's really that simple: Program, or be programmed. Choose the former, and you gain access to the control panel of civilization. Choose the latter, and it could be the last real choice you get to make.

  Douglas Rushkoff

  Real, Simple, Civilization

  Douglas Rushkoff (2010). “Program Or Be Programmed: Ten Commands for a Digital Age”, p.7, OR Books

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• 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.

  Bill Gates

  Simple, Magic, Enough

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• Of course, I have my own limits as to how much game software I can take care of at any one time.

  Shigeru Miyamoto

  Games, Care, Limits

  "Q&A: Shigeru Miyamoto Looks Into Nintendo's Future". Interview with Chris Kohler, www.wired.com. December 13, 2011.

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• Really great blogs do not take the place of great microprocessors. Great blogs do not replace great software. Lots and lots of blogs does not replace lots and lots of sales.

  Larry Ellison

  Doe, Really Great, Microprocessor

  "Special Report: Can That Guy in Ironman 2 Whip IBM in Real Life?". www.reuters.com. May 13, 2010.

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• There is a constant need for new systems and new software.

  Marc Andreessen

  Needs, Constant

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• A simple [writing] style is the result of very hard work.

  William Zinsser

  Hard Work, Writing, Simple

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• Google’s objective is to organize the world’s information and to make it accessible. Unicode plays a central role in this effort because it is the principal means by which content in every language can be represented in a form that can be processed by software. As Unicode extends its coverage of the world’s languages, it helps Google accomplish its mission.

  Vinton Cerf

  Mean, Play, Effort

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• I think the most difficult thing had been scaling the infrastructure. Trying to support the response we had received from our users and the number of people that were interested in using the software.

  Shawn Fanning

  Thinking, Numbers, People

  "Q&A: Napster creator Shawn Fanning". Interview with Giancarlo Varanini, www.zdnet.com. March 3, 2000.

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• GNU, which stands for Gnu's Not Unix, is the name for the complete Unix-compatible software system which I am writing so that I can give it away free to everyone who can use it.

  Richard Stallman

  Writing, Names, Giving

  Richard Stallman (2002). “Free Software, Free Society: Selected Essays of Richard M. Stallman”, p.27, Lulu.com

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• You know, if you were *really* going to starve, you'd be justified in writing proprietary software.

  Richard Stallman

  Writing, Justified, Knows

  Richard M. Stallman's speech "Free Software: Freedom and Cooperation", New York University in New York, New York, www.gnu.org. May 29, 2001.

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• I figure that since proprietary software developers use copyright to stop us from sharing, we cooperators can use copyright to give other cooperators an advantage of their own: they can use our code.

  Richard Stallman

  Giving, Use, Advantage

  Richard Stallman (2002). “Free Software, Free Society: Selected Essays of Richard M. Stallman”, p.75, Lulu.com

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

  Wietse Venema

  Bugs, Known

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• Qmail out of the box works fine, so people will want to use it regardless of licensing restrictions, even when the software does not ship with their system software.

  Wietse Venema

  People, Doe, Use

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• The American Dream is one of the greatest ideas in the history of human achievement . . . It thrives today in an age when its core components of freedom and opportunity are open to more Americans than ever before. It holds a real, identifiable place in the American heart and mind, and it informs the aspirations of everyone from farmers to software developers, from detectives to bankers, from soldiers to social workers . . . It defines us as a people, even as we add to its meaning with each new chapter in our national experience and our individual actions.

  Dan Rather

  Dream, Real, Heart

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