Software Quotes - Page 15

• One of the great skills in using any language is knowing what not to use, what not to say. There's that simplicity thing again.

  Ron Jeffries

  Skills, Knowing, Simplicity

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• Crappy old OSes have value in the basically negative sense that changing to new ones makes us wish we'd never been born.

  Neal Stephenson

  Design, Wish, Negative

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• ...wisdom is in large part the knowledge of how to avoid doing dumb things, and thus grows globally as a function of the published inventory of stupid mistakes.

  Tim Bray

  Mistake, Stupid, Design

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• Patents? Disappointed? Don't think of it that way. Software patents weren't feasible then so we chose not to risk $10,000.

  Bob Frankston

  Thinking, Risk, Patents

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• I love software, because if you can imagine something, you can build it.

  Ray Ozzie

  Imagine, Ifs

  "Ray Ozzie Wants to Push Microsoft Back Into Startup Mode" by Steven Levy, www.wired.com. November 24, 2008.

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• If you love a medium made of software, there's a danger that you will become entrapped in someone else's recent careless thoughts. Struggle against that.

  Jaron Lanier

  Struggle, Danger, Made

  Jaron Lanier (2010). “You Are Not a Gadget”, p.22, Vintage

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• If car manufacturers made cars according to spec the same way software vendors make software according to spec, all five wheels would be of widely differing sizes, it would take one person to steer and another to work the pedals and yet another to operate the user-friendly menu-driven dashboard, and if it would not drive straight ahead without a lot of effort, civil engineers would respond by building spiraling roads around each city.

  Erik Naggum

  Cities, Car, Effort

  "What obstacles do Common Lisp programmers face?". Usenet discussion groups, groups.google.com. January 12, 2002.

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• What's needed now are software technologies that interconnect computing systems, people and data to produce more rapid answers to the questions of science, and to help researchers use computation in the most effective manner.

  Bob Muglia

  Technology, Data, People

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• My wife convinced me to try doing the restorations digitally. I thought I could learn the photo editing software over the Thanksgiving weekend. It took me until May of the next year before I sold anything I did with it.

  Donald Lambert

  Photography, Weekend, Years

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• God is like a computer, the more software you put in, the greater the danger that extensions will conflict.

  Alexander Waugh

  Computer, Conflict, Danger

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• Poor management can increase software costs more rapidly than any other factor. Particularly on large projects, each of the following mismanagement actions has often been responsible for doubling software development costs.

  Barry Boehm

  Cost, Development, Poor Management

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• It seems certain that much of the success of Unix follows from the readability, modifiability, and portability of its software.

  Dennis Ritchie

  Unix, Certain, Portability

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• Free software is part of a broader phenomenon, which is a shift toward recognizing the value of shared work. Historically, shared stuff had a very bad name. The reputation was that people always abused shared things, and in the physical world, something that is shared and abused becomes worthless. In the digital world, I think we have the inverse effect, where something that is shared can become more valuable than something that is closely held, as long as it is both shared and contributed to by everybody who is sharing in it.

  Mark Shuttleworth

  Thinking, Names, Long

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• Find the simplest model that is not a lie is the key to better software design.

  David Parnas

  Lying, Keys, Design

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• When someone builds a bridge, he uses engineers who have been certified as knowing what they are doing. Yet when someone builds you a software program, he has no similar certification, even though your safety may be just as dependent upon that software working as it is upon the bridge supporting your weight.

  David Parnas

  Bridges, Knowing, Safety

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• Twenty-five years ago, the notion was you could create a general problem-solver software that could solve problems in many different domains. That just turned out to be totally wrong.

  Howard Gardner

  Years, Twenties, Different

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• Apple already had everyone's billing information from iTunes... you could buy things just by typing in your password... That, for the first time, brought very, very easy payment to the modern software world. That, more than anything, is why there is a business for paid apps.

  Marco Arment

  Apples, World, Information

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• We can collaborate with a Netscape employee or partner who's halfway around the world. We can distribute information and software to customers and shareholders, and get their feedback.

  James L. Barksdale

  World, Information, Feedback

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• Most of the software I sell runs on mainframes and supercomputers, and is used by multinational corporations and governments. You may not get to see that, but if I have done it properly, hopefully it will make the events in your life transpire more smoothly.

  Frederick Lenz

  Running, Government, May

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

  Frederick Lenz

  Rama, Creation, Music Business

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• The software is the strength of the electronic tribe because it's networking. It's creating oneness. It's creating tributaries that link together into a singular river.

  Frederick Lenz

  Science, Oneness, Rivers

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

  Marc Andreessen

  Past, Car, Long

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• Im a transactional lawyer; I negotiate all types of things, but with a particular focus in software licenses.

  Keith Rothfus

  Focus, Lawyer, Type

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• It's called 'reading'.  It's how people install new software into their brains.

  Randy Glasbergen

  Reading, People, Brain

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• There are no secrets on an successful software project. Both good and bad news must be able to move up and down the ptoject hierarchy without restriction.

  Steve McConnell

  Moving, Successful, Secret

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