Software Quotes - Page 17

• 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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• Companies made these decisions about encryption when they were finding it very difficult to sell their products overseas because the [Edward] Snowden disclosures created the impression that the U.S. government was inside this hardware and software produced by them. They needed to do something to deal with the perception.

  Michael Morell

  Government, Decision, Perception

  Source: www.politico.com

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• Software engineering economics.

  Barry Boehm

  Engineering, Economics, Software Engineering

  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

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• Software and hardware design is less different than software designers think, but more different than hardware designers think.

  Fred Brooks

  Thinking, Design, Different

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• The first step toward the management of disease was replacement of demon theories and humours theories by the germ theory. That very step, the beginning of hope, in itself dashed all hopes of magical solutions. It told workers that progress would be made stepwise, at great effort, and that a persistent, unremitting care would have to be paid to a discipline of cleanliness. So it is with software engineering today.

  Fred Brooks

  Engineering, Discipline, Effort

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• Also, because schools must teach the spirit of goodwill, the habit of helping others around you, every class should have this rule: students, if you bring software to class you may not keep it for yourself.

  Richard Stallman

  School, Helping Others, Should Have

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• The truth of Moore's law has made remarkable things possible. On the software side, I think natural user interfaces in all their forms are equally significant.

  Bill Gates

  Thinking, Law, Sides

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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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• I think there certainly was a milestone in the '90s with regards to the Internet achieving critical mass. There were several magical factors that came together: the creation of HTML by Tim Berners-Lee, the drop in the price of communications, and all the PCs out there that you could put this software into.

  Bill Gates

  Communication, Thinking, Html

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• From what type of software could help us make a movie faster to everything else regarding the textures. Some might think, "It's probably very easy to make a film with those textures," but it's much more difficult than what it appears to be. We had to discover a faster process because otherwise it could have taken us 10 years to make it.

  Alex Abreu

  Taken, Thinking, Years

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

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• Software will never replace the Koran.

  Dan Wieden

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• At the end of the day, the GPL is not about making software free; it's about destroying value.

  Darl McBride

  The End Of The Day, Ends, Destroying

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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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• [Core concepts: Human beings all have souls. Souls are software objects. Software is not immortal.]

  Charles Stross

  Soul, Immortal, Humans

  Charles Stross (2005). “Accelerando”, p.354, Penguin

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

  Marc Andreessen

  Needs, Constant

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• TV and the press have always functioned according to the same sets of rules and technical standards. But the Internet is based on software. And anybody can write a new piece of software on the Internet that years later a billion people are using.

  Marc Andreessen

  Writing, Years, People

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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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• 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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