Software Quotes - Page 24

• I never imagined that the Free Software Movement would spawn a watered-down alternative, the Open Source Movement, which would become so well-known that people would ask me questions about "open source" thinking that I work under that banner.

  Richard Stallman

  Thinking, People, Alternatives

  "Thus Spake Stallman". Slashdot Interview, news.slashdot.org. May 1, 2000.

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• In the next 10 years, data science and software will do more for medicine than all of the biological sciences together.

  Vinod Khosla

  Future, Science, Years

  "Vinod Khosla: In The Next 10 Years, Data Science Will Do More For Medicine Than All Biological Sciences Combined". techcrunch.com. September 11, 2013.

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• Apple has never allowed ad-blocking software on the iPhone or iPad. This is one among many reasons that I ditched both. Not because I hate ads all that passionately, but because it's an example of the obsessive corporate control Apple maintains over its environment.

  Kevin Drum

  Hate, Block, Iphone

  "Apple Hates Me. I Hate Them Right Back" by Kevin Drum, www.motherjones.com. August 31, 2015.

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• In a user lead model, users are bringing in their own technology... and you can build software then, around the user.

  Aaron Levie

  Technology, Building, Models

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• Modern cyberspace is a deadly festering swamp, teeming with dangerous programs such as 'viruses,' 'worms,' 'Trojan horses' and 'licensed Microsoft software' that can take over your computer and render it useless.

  Dave Barry

  Funny, Horse, Humor

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• We will still be enormously profitable and by far the most profitable enterprise software company.

  Larry Ellison

  Inspirational, Enterprise, Company

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• Writing system software is like planning a family.If you make a mistake you have to live with it for 20 years.

  Richard Marshall

  Mistake, Writing, Years

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• In the software business there are many enterprises for which it is not clear that science can help them; that science should try is not clear either.

  Edsger Dijkstra

  Trying, Helping, Should

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• Follow your dreams wherever they lead you and pay for those dreams with good jobs in software programming and computer design!

  Frederick Lenz

  Dream, Jobs, Science

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• Some software is actually pretty good, by any standard. Think of the Mars Rovers, Google, and the Human Genome Project. Now, that's quality software!

  Bjarne Stroustrup

  Thinking, Google, Quality

  Interview with Jason Pontin, www.technologyreview.com. January 1, 2007.

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• Walking is a skill that took millions of years for us to develop... If you wanted to design a robot that could walk as well as a person, this would be fantastically complicated software. It would have to be doing billions of calculations with every step.

  David Pogue

  Years, Skills, Design

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• Our enemies may be irrational, even outright insane, driven by nationalism, religion, ethnicity or ideology. They do not fear the United States for its diplomatic skills or the number of automobiles and software programs it produces. They respect only the firepower of our tanks, planes and helicopter gunships.

  Ronald Reagan

  Skills, Numbers, Ethnicity

  Ronald Reagan (1998). “A Shining City: The Legacy of Ronald Reagan”

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• Personalization is the automatic tailoring of sites and messages to the individuals viewing them, so that we can feel that somewhere there's a piece of software that loves us for who we are.

  David Weinberger

  Messages, Pieces, Who We Are

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• People can criticize Microsoft for supporting this TV thing for the past eight years, but it is a long-term bet, There is not any other software business that is as dedicated to the vision of the TV and the PDA [personal digital assistant] as we are.

  Bill Gates

  Past, Years, Pda

  "Gates touts interactive TV" by Laura Rohde, www.cnn.com. October 14, 1999.

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• The finest pieces of software are those where one individual has a complete sense of exactly how the program works. To have that, you have to really love the program and concentrate on keeping it simple, to an incredible degree.

  Bill Gates

  Simple, Degrees, Pieces

  "Programmers at Work: Interviews With 19 Programmers Who Shaped the Computer Industry". Book by Suzanne Lammers, 1986.

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• Anyone who has raised more than one child knows full well that kids turn out the way they turn out - astonishingly, for the most part, and usually quite unlike their siblings, even their twins, raised under the same flawed rooftree. Little we have done or said, or left undone and unsaid, seems to have made much mark. It's hubris to suppose ourselves so influential; a casual remark on the playground is as likely to change their lives as any dedicated campaign of ours. They come with much of their own software already in place, waiting, and none of the keys we press will override it.

  Barbara Holland

  Children, Sibling, Kids

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• Android is a major step towards an ethical, user-controlled, free-software portable phone, but there is a long way to go.

  Richard Stallman

  Phones, Long, Way

  "Is Android really free software?" by Richard Stallman, www.theguardian.com. September 19, 2011.

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• Google has the business resources, global scale and platform reach to accelerate Nest growth across hardware, software and services for the home globally.

  Tony Fadell

  Home, Google, Growth

  "Google buys Nest Labs for $3.2bn in bid for smart home-devices market" by Rory Carroll, www.theguardian.com. January 14, 2014.

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• My best decision was to choose to go to Wall Street over law. I learned a lot and focused on the expanding software industry at a time when the independent software industry was just beginning.

  Safra A. Catz

  Wall, Independent, Law

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• Nowadays, all students have access to and indeed most own computers and are comfortable with the software used to compose music. There are probably too many musical options for them now and the trick is to limit the number of musical ideas so as to develop structure and continuity in their work.

  Jon Appleton

  Numbers, Ideas, Musical

  "Appleton Leaves Dartmouth". www.dartreview.com. October 27, 2005.

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• Releasing Linux versions has always been a matter of higher code quality, good software architecture, and technical interest for the platform.

  Timothee Besset

  Code Quality, Matter, Linux

  "id Software and Linux – By TTimo". Linux Gaming News, linuxgamingnews.org. September 15, 2009.

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• Really successful designs can be created without software produced "special effects." Identities do not NEED bevels, gradations, 3-D imagery, Web 2.Oh-Oh and other oh so "special" treatments to be great design solutions for clients.

  Jeff Fisher

  Successful, Design, Identity

  Source: justcreative.com

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• Software−related accidents are usually caused by flawed requirements.

  Nancy Leveson

  Requirements, Flawed, Accidents

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• In almost every job now, people use software and work with information to enable their organization to operate more effectively.

  Bill Gates

  Jobs, Organization, People

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• Make a faster machine and people will flock to inefficient software.

  John C. Dvorak

  People, Machines, Flocks

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