Software Quotes - Page 20

• In the early days of the software industry, people cared about copyright and didn't give a damn about patents - they copied each other willy-nilly.

  Nathan Myhrvold

  People, Giving, Patents

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• Software touches all of these different things you use, and tech companies are revolutionizing all different areas of the world...from how we shop to how farming works, all these things that aren't technical are being turned upside down by software. So being able to play in that universe really makes a difference.

  Drew Houston

  Play, Differences, Making A Difference

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• I developed some unique software to public it on the web that I call the Folklore Project.

  Andy Hertzfeld

  Unique, Projects, Folklore

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• One of the problems with computers, particularly for the older people, is they were befuddled by them, and the computers have gotten better. They have gotten easier to use. They have gotten less expensive. The software interfaces have made things a lot more accessible

  Steve Case

  People, Use, Computer

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• Never in the annals of software engineering was so much owed by so many to so few lines of code

  Martin Fowler

  Engineering, Lines, Code

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• I really think it is amazing that people actually buy software.

  Bill Budge

  Thinking, People

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• My own personal dream is that the majority of the web runs on open source software.

  Matt Mullenweg

  Running, Dream, Majority

  "Big Omaha 2010". Conference Interview, May 2010.

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• I believe that software, and in fact entire companies, should be run in a way that assumes that the sum of the talent of people outside your walls is greater than the sum of the few you have inside. None of us are as smart as all of us.

  Matt Mullenweg

  Running, Wall, Smart

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• Elegance? It may seem odd to non-scientists, but there is an aesthetic in software as there is in every other area of intellectual endeavour. Truly great programmers are like great poets or great mathematicians - they can achieve in a few lines what lesser mortals can only approach in three volumes

  John Naughton

  Intellectual, Three, Lines

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• What kind of programmer is so divorced from reality that she thinks she'll get complex software right the first time?

  James Alan Gardner

  Reality, Thinking, Firsts

  James Alan Gardner (2014). “Ascending”, p.176, Open Road Media

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• There is no neat distinction between operating system software and the software that runs on top of it.

  Jim Allchin

  Running, Distinction, Operating Systems

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• Open source is an intellectual-property destroyer, I can't imagine something that could be worse than this for the software business and the intellectual-property business.

  Jim Allchin

  Intellectual, Imagine, Source

  "Microsoft exec calls open source a threat to innovation". www.cnet.com. February 7, 2002.

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• 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.

  Erik Naggum

  Fans, Source, Worthless

  "The Next Generation of Lisp Programmers". Usenet discussion groups, groups.google.com. August 24, 2002.

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• I was trying to figure out what to do next, I'd been accumulating ideas for productivity tools - software people could use every day, particularly to help organize their lives.

  Mitchell Kapor

  Ideas, People, Trying

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• This will surprise some of your readers, but my primary interest is not with computer security. I am primarily interested in writing software that works as intended.

  Wietse Venema

  Writing, Computer, Surprise

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• In a previous life I wrote the software that controlled my physics experiments. That software had to deal with all kinds of possible failures in equipment. That is probably where I learned to rely on multiple safety nets inside and around my systems.

  Wietse Venema

  Safety, Kind, Physics

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• I want to avoid locking people into solutions that work only with Postfix. People should have a choice in what software they want to use with Postfix, be it anti-virus or otherwise.

  Wietse Venema

  Should Have, People, Choices

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

  Wietse Venema

  Requirements

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

  Wietse Venema

  Stupid, Simple, Models

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• The challenge with Postfix, or with any piece of software, is to update software without introducing problems.

  Wietse Venema

  Challenges, Pieces, Updates

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• Writing software that's safe even in the presence of bugs makes the challenge even more interesting.

  Wietse Venema

  Writing, Interesting, Challenges

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• It's time to re-appreciate the original software: paper.

  Dale Dauten

  Business, Appreciate, Paper

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• Our biological body itself is a form of hardware that needs re-programming through tantra like a new spiritual software which can release or unblock its potential.

  Slavoj Žižek

  Spiritual, Needs, Body

  Slavoj Žižek, Slavoj Zizek (2011). “Living in the End Times”, p.8, Verso

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• Sharing the code just seems like The Right Thing to Do. It costs us rather little, but it benefits a lot of people in sometimes very significant ways. There are many university research projects, proof of concept publisher demos, and new platform test beds that have leveraged the code. Free software that people value adds wealth to the world.

  John Carmack

  People, Bed, Add

  "John Carmack: Making the Magic Happen" by Brad Cook, www.bradcook.net. February 2009.

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• All programming is maintenance programming, because you are rarely writing original code.

  Dave Thomas

  Writing, Maintenance, Programming

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