Software Quotes - Page 27

• The business models in enterprise have changed pretty dramatically. A huge problem with enterprise software traditionally has been usually you sell to the customer and then they adopt the technology. The great thing about 'freemium' and the new way enterprise software is being sold is you get to try it first and then buy it.

  Aaron Levie

  Educational, Technology, Trying

  "Why Consumer Style Sells in the Corporate World: 10 Questions with Box CEO Aaron Levie". Interview with Sarah Mitroff, www.wired.com. August 20, 2012.

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• Paul and I, we never thought that we would make much money out of the thing. We just loved writing software.

  Bill Gates

  Inspirational, Motivational, Writing

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• Now companies tend to mine gigantic databases for insights into what might happen six months from now. That might always be valuable, but there's a different kind of value - and a competitive edge - in processing ongoing streams of data through a software model that can quickly and constantly make predictions about, say, whether a certain customer is going to defect, or an aircraft is going to run into trouble.

  Kevin Maney

  Running, Data, Six Months

  Source: bobmorris.biz

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• Just the attempt to learn a [new] language is like running different software through the brain.

  Andrew Weil

  Running, Brain, Different

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• Everybody remembers numbers and computers remember numbers. People remember procedures and computers certainly remember procedures. But the other thing that's still important is that your perception as a human is affected subtly by all this stuff that you can't quite articulate. You run your life according to all this stuff that's happened to you. All of your memories affect everything you do whereas with a computer, there's adaptive software and things, but it's more literal.

  Bill Nye

  Running, Memories, Numbers

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• I think one of the both liberating and terrifying prospects from synthetic biology for example is that you are going to have all of these do it yourself biosynthetic labs where people are going to be playing with the software of life. We are going to have a new generation of artists that are going to be playing with genomes the way that Blake and Byron used to play with poetry. And when genomes are the new canvas for the artist, we might be able to radically upgrade the human species and the software of the biology of the human species.

  Jason Silva

  Artist, Thinking, Play

  Source: alejandrotrojas.com

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• Microsoft does not dominate the software industry by any stretch of the imagination. We have lots of very able competitors who keep us constantly vigilant, and sometimes they beat us to the punch. Microsoft's success to date is based solely on the fact that people like Microsoft software.

  Bill Gates

  People, Imagination, Able

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• We are entering a hyperconnected world where every boss now has more access, cheap access to cheap labor, cheap genius, cheap robot, cheap software, and then this world averages over. There is only one answer to that, and that is to get everyone as close as possible to some form of post-secondary education, it could be vocational, it can be liberal arts, it can be science and technology.

  Thomas Friedman

  Art, Technology, Average

  Source: theislamicmonthly.com

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• The common thread for everything I do is this idea of a Web-services architecture. What does that mean? It means taking components of software and systems and having them be self-describing, so that you can aim them, ask them what their capabilities are, and communicate with them using a standard protocol.

  Bill Gates

  Mean, Self, Common Threads

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• Every young person gets so excited about new software packages and new technology.

  John Lasseter

  Technology, Excited, Young

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• Once GNU is written, everyone will be able to obtain good system software free, just like air.

  Richard Stallman

  Air, Able, Written

  Richard Stallman (2002). “Free Software, Free Society: Selected Essays of Richard M. Stallman”, p.29, Lulu.com

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• When we see companies who are in complicit relationships with China, for example, making huge profits by providing China with the very software that enables the state to censor its own people, that is not acceptable. We need to engage with such companies to make their responsibilities clear.

  Mary Robinson

  Responsibility, People, Example

  Source: www.egonzehnder.com

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• Real software engineers don't debug programs, they verify correctness. This process doesn't necessarily involve execution of anything on a computer, except perhaps a Correctness Verification Aid package. Sex without love is an empty experience, but, as empty experiences go, it's one of the best.

  Woody Allen

  Sex, Real, Love Is

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• Probably the biggest mistake that I made personally is I knew early on that I wanted to go into start-ups and creating kind of software that could help change the lives of millions of people. And basically what I did is I kind of went, okay, well, I need a set of titles and I need a checklist of skills, and I ran through all that, and that wasn't a useless thing, but what I didn't realize, and, you know, and no one gave me the right advice for doing this, is that actually your network, in essentially, is your career.

  Reid Hoffman

  Mistake, Useless Things, Skills

  Source: bigthink.com

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• I would say that hardware is the bone of the head, the skull. The semiconductor is the brain within the head. The software is the wisdom and data is the knowledge.

  Masayoshi Son

  Data, Skulls, Brain

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• Like any well designed software product, Windows is designed, developed and tested as an integrated whole.

  Bill Gates

  Window, Integrated, Wells

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• It has long been my personal view that the separation of practical and theoretical work is artificial and injurious. Much of the practical work done in computing, both in software and in hardware design, is unsound and clumsy because the people who do it have not any clear understanding of the fundamental design principles of their work. Most of the abstract mathematical and theoretical work is sterile because it has no point of contact with real computing.

  Christopher Strachey

  Real, Views, Long

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• The ever-growing size of software applications is what makes Moore's Law possible: 'If we hadn't brought your computer to its knees, why would you go out and buy a new one?'

  Nathan Myhrvold

  Law, Growing, Knees

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• A hacker is someone who enjoys playful cleverness—not necessarily with computers. The programmers in the old MIT free software community of the 60s and 70s referred to themselves as hackers. Around 1980, journalists who discovered the hacker community mistakenly took the term to mean “security breaker.”

  Richard Stallman

  Mean, Community, Mit

  Words to Avoid (or Use with Care) Because They Are Loaded or Confusing, www.gnu.org. 1996.

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• Writing non-free software is not an ethically legitimate activity, so if people who do this run into trouble, that's good! All businesses based on non-free software ought to fail, and the sooner the better.

  Richard Stallman

  Running, Writing, People

  Kde-licensing mailing list, marc.info. April 13, 1998.

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• The Adobe flash plug-in is non-free software, and people should not install it, or suggest installing it, or even tell people it exists.

  Richard Stallman

  People, Should, Flash

  OpenBSD mailing list, Subject: "Re: Real men don't attack straw men", marc.info. December 14, 2007.

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• None of our competitors have ever made two systems that run the same software.

  Trip Hawkins

  Running, Two, Economy

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• The software patent problem is not limited to Mono. Software patents affect everyone writing software today.

  Miguel de Icaza

  Writing, Patents, Today

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• I don't believe in government regulation of the software industry.

  James L. Barksdale

  Believe, Government, Regulation

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• From day one our next generation system will run all our exsisting software - so that gives us a head start.

  Trip Hawkins

  Running, Giving, Generations

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