Software Quotes - Page 26

• I can direct dial today a man my parents warred with. They wanted to kill him, I want to sell software to him.

  Brad Templeton

  Men, Parent, Want

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• Microsoft has one more shot at a role in smart phone software through its deployment on Nokia phones. Nokia is still the global market share leader in cell phones. Maybe it will work out, but this is hard to envision great success in the area coming on the heels of so much disappointment in missed opportunity in this important and visible category.

  David Einhorn

  Disappointment, Smart, Opportunity

  "Transcript of David Einhorn's Speech at the Ira Sohn Conference". www.businessinsider.com. June 2, 2011.

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• I'm the founder of the McAfee Anti-Virus Software Company. Although I have had nothing to do with this company for over 15 years, I still get volumes of mail asking 'how do I uninstall this software'. I have no idea.

  John McAfee

  Years, Ideas, Viruses

  Source: www.sbs.com.au

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• Software is more important than hardware.

  Bill Gates

  Important, Hardware

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• In software speed to market, speed to learning is really key. In hardware if you screw it up you are dead. So accuracy really matters.

  Reid Hoffman

  Keys, Matter, Speed

  "How To Be A Great Founder". Reid Hoffman's Lecture at Stanford University, startupclass.samaltman.com. November 4, 2014.

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• What we were doing was trying to simply get the information we need once we learned from our vendor after the software glitch occurred that there had been a breach by the Sanders campaign staff, which I was glad to see senator [Bernie] Sanders acknowledge that was wrong and apologize for.

  Debbie Wasserman Schultz

  Trying, Information, Glitches

  Source: www.msnbc.com

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• The function of good software is to make the complex appear to be simple.

  Grady Booch

  Simple, Simplicity, Computer

  "Qt for Symbian". Book by Frank H. P. Fitzek et al., 2010.

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• As a person with the retentive mental capacity of a goldfish and a dislike of repetition, I frequently make use of the thesaurus built into my Microsoft Word U.K. Software.

  Hans Rosling

  Microsoft Word, Use, Goldfish

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• While the creative works from the 16th century can still be accessed and used by others, the data in some software programs from the 1990s is already inaccessible. Once a company that produces a certain product goes out of business, it has no simple way to uncover how its product encoded data. The code is thus lost, and the software is inaccessible. Knowledge has been destroyed.

  Lawrence Lessig

  Simple, Data, Creative

  "May the Source Be With You" by Lawrence Lessig, www.wired.com. December 1, 2001.

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• When the government is looking for a criminal in the crowd, it construes people in terms of culpability: innocence or guilt. When a corporation uses emotion recognition software to gauge your reaction to a carton of milk, it construes your body as a consumer. So there are these different modes of seeing what it is to be human, which have important implications for social classification, stereotyping, and racial profiling.

  Nicole Miller

  People, Guilt, Important

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• If we built houses the way we build software, the first woodpecker to come along would destroy civilization.

  Clifford Stoll

  Civilization, House, Way

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• Hardware: where the people in your company's software section will tell you the problem is. Software: where the people in your company's hardware section will tell you the problem is.

  Dave Barry

  Technology, People, Computer

  Dave Barry (1986). “Claw Your Way to the Top: How to Become the Head of a Major Corporation in Roughly a Week”, p.43, Rodale

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• I want people to understand the amazing, positive way our software can make leisure time more enjoyable, and work and businesses more successful.

  Steve Ballmer

  Successful, Technology, People

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• Here's the secret that every successful software company is based on: You can domesticate programmers the way beekeepers tame bees. You can't exactly communicate with them, but you can get them to swarm in one place and when they're not looking, you can carry off the honey.

  Orson Scott Card

  Successful, Secret, Honey

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• The most amazing achievement of the computer software industry is its continuing cancellation of the steady and staggering gains made by the computer hardware industry.

  Henry Petroski

  Technology, Achievement, Gains

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• If you look at the top 10 enterprise software companies, a lot of them are important but irrelevant companies. It's really important to be relevant and important.

  Marc Benioff

  Important, Top 10, Looks

  Source: www.sfgate.com

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• The current term of protection for software is the life of an author plus 70 years, or, if it's work-for-hire, a total of 95 years. This is a bastardization of the Constitution's requirement that copyright be for "limited times."

  Lawrence Lessig

  Years, Limited Time, Requirements

  "May the Source Be With You". www.wired.com. December 21, 2001.

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• [We in Microsoft] are not the only software company but we are a great software company doing some unique work.

  Bill Gates

  Unique, Microsoft, Company

  Source: www.geekwire.com

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• Frame is a good enough piece of software that there are actually rewards to taking an intelligent and formal approach to your problem. But if you want to be stupid, you can think of Frame as a version of Microsoft Word with most of the bugs taken out.

  Philip Greenspun

  Stupid, Taken, Thinking

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• Software development takes immense intellectual effort. Even the best programmers can rarely sustain that level of effort for more than a few hours a day. Beyond that, they need to rest their brains a bit, which is why they always seem to be surfing the Internet or playing games when you barge in on them.

  Joel Spolsky

  Playing Games, Effort, Surfing

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• With software products, it is usual to find that the software has major `bugs' and does not work reliably for some users... The lay public, familiar with only a few incidents of software failure, may regard them as exceptions caused by exceptionally inept programmers. Those of us who are software professionals know better; the most competent programmers in the world cannot avoid such problems.

  David Parnas

  World, May, Bugs

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• It's clear that other problems such as [...] the domination of business over government, science, thought, and society, are much bigger than non-free software.

  Richard Stallman

  Government, Problem, Bigger

  Slashdot Interview, slashdot.org. May 1, 2000.

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• I am confident that we can do better than GUIs because the basic problem with them (and with the Linux and Unix interfaces) is that they ask a human being to do things that we know experimentally humans cannot do well. The question I asked myself is, given everything we know about how the human mind works, could we design a computer and computer software so that we can work with the least confusion and greatest efficiency?

  Jef Raskin

  Confusion, Design, Mind

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• It is a high bar to say that it's more fun than working on software because the work at Microsoft that both Melinda [Gates] and I did was thrilling. We were making breakthroughs and empowering people.

  Bill Gates

  Fun, People, Empowering

  Source: www.ctvnews.ca

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• Software development, like professional sports, has a way of making thirty-year-old men feel decrepit.

  Neal Stephenson

  Sports, Men, Years

  Neal Stephenson (2003). “Snow Crash”, p.56, Spectra

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