Software Quotes - Page 28

• So many commercial orgs have software where you can come and modify it but they still control everything. And what's controlled is very clearly what's good for their business, or if they're more progressive, their view of what's good for the Internet.

  Mitchell Baker

  Views, Internet, Progressive

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• The use of pirated software in China is really quite a sizeable loss to our software producers.

  Lael Brainard

  Loss, Use, China

  C. Peter McColough Series on International Economics, www.cfr.org. January 21, 2011.

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• Yes, virus companies are playing on your fears to try to sell you bs protection software for Android, RIM and IOS. They are charlatans and scammers. IF you work for a company selling virus protection for android, rim or IOS you should be ashamed of yourself.

  Chris DiBona

  Ios, Trying, Viruses

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• Software is more important than hardware.

  Bill Gates

  Important, Hardware

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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