Software Quotes - Page 29

• Good work is always done in defiance of management.

  Bob Woodward

  Design, Done, Management

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• We do not believe any group of men adequate enough or wise enough to operate without scrutiny or without criticism. We know that the only way to avoid error is to detect it, that the only way to detect it is to be free to inquire. We know that in secrecy error, undetected, will flourish and subvert.

  J. Robert Oppenheimer

  Wise, Believe, Men

  "Encouragement of Science". J. Robert Oppenheimer's address at Science Talent Institute (March 6, 1950), as quoted in "Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists", Volume 7, No. 1 (pp. 6-8), January 1951.

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• ...your Web browser is Ronald Reagan.

  Neal Stephenson

  Design, Software Design, Browsers

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• Structure is translation software for your imagination.

  James Scott Bell

  Imagination, Structure, Translations

  James Scott Bell (2016). “Just Write: Creating Unforgettable Fiction and a Rewarding Writing Life”, p.127, "F+W Media, Inc."

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• Our civilization depends critically on software, and we have a dangerously low degree of professionalism in the computer fields

  Bjarne Stroustrup

  Civilization, Degrees, Fields

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• Building software implies various stages of planning, preparation and execution that vary in kind and degree depending on what's being built. [...]
  Building a four-foot tower requires a steady hand, a level surface, and 10 undamaged beer cans. Building a tower 100 times that size doesn't merely require 100 times as many beer cans.

  Steve McConnell

  Beer, Hands, Feet

  Steve McConnell (2004). “Code Complete”, p.16, Pearson Education

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• We now know that something between 85 and 90 percent of most software product features are unwanted and unneeded by customers. That is an enourmous ammount of waste of time and money that ends up on the floor.

  Steve Blank

  Waste, Wasting Time, Ends

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• Software gets slower faster than hardware gets faster.

  Niklaus Wirth

  Programming, Faster, Hardware

  "Excel HSC Softw Design&Devel + Cards SG". Book by Geoff Lancaster, 2001.

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• When writing gateway software of any kind, take pains to disturb the data stream as little as possible - and never throw away information unless the recipient forces you to!

  Eric S. Raymond

  Pain, Writing, Data

  Eric S. Raymond (2001). “The Cathedral & the Bazaar: Musings on Linux and Open Source by an Accidental Revolutionary”, p.44, "O'Reilly Media, Inc."

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• You know, most people in the open-source world who use open-source software don't actually do builds themselves - those people just download the binaries. And so we expect that the big enterprise people will just do that and we will certainly be providing binaries that have been through full industrial-strength QA, that have been through all the conformance testing.

  James Gosling

  People, Use, World

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• There is this thing called the GPL (Gnu Public Licence), which we disagree with... nobody can ever improve the software.

  Bill Gates

  Programming, Disagree

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• While Microsoft does not share all of Oracle's ambitions for Java, we agree that it is a very valuable tool for software developers.

  Bill Gates

  Ambition, Doe, Tools

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• We're focused on providing innovations in software, driving the continuous improvement for a much better experience, and there's a lot going on here that speaks to this decade and what's going to happen in this decade. We can kind of sum it up in terms of saying, "Yes, you can."

  Bill Gates

  Yes You Can, Innovation, Saying Yes

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• It is not just software glitches and corrupted memory cards that should be on the minds of election officials. Hackers pose another very real problem whereby an election could be tilted towards a favored candidate.

  Bob Barr

  Memories, Real, Mind

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• The greatest risk we face in software development is that of overestimating our own knowledge.

  Jim Highsmith

  Risk, Development, Faces

  Jim Highsmith (2013). “Adaptive Software Development: A Collaborative Approach to Managing Complex Systems”, p.14, Addison-Wesley

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• In software, consultants sometimes tell you to buy into certain software-development methods to the exclusion of other methods. That’s unfortunate because if you buy into any single methodology 100 percent, you’ll see the whole world in terms of that methodology. In some instances, you’ll miss opportunities to use other methods better suited to your current problem.

  Steve McConnell

  Opportunity, Missing, Use

  Steve McConnell (2004). “Code Complete”, p.20, Pearson Education

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• As for a picture, if it isn't worth a thousand words, the hell with it.

  Ad Reinhardt

  Design, Hell, Thousand

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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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• So what makes me happy? I was really happy to build this house. That's it; building things. The trouble with software is that it's very hard to show your aunt in Florida what you've done.

  Larry Ellison

  Inspirational, Aunt, Florida

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• There's only one trick in software, and that is using a piece of software that's already been written.

  Bill Gates

  Money, Business, Pieces

  Electronics Magazine, 1989.

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• One: demonstrations always crash. And two: the probability of them crashing goes up exponentially with the number of people watching.

  Steve Jobs

  Two, Numbers, People

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• Imagine the disincentive to software development if after months of work another company could come along and copy your work and market it under its own name...without legal restraints to such copying, companies like Apple could not afford to advance the state of the art.

  Bill Gates

  Art, Names, Apples

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• I think it's great that people now have access to Pro Tools and other recording software at home. I've never understood how anyone could be comfortable in a recording studio

  Michael Dumontier

  Home, Thinking, People

  Source: www.believermag.com

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• The hardware and the software used in the Breakthrough project will be compatible with other telescopes around the world, so they too can search for intelligent life.

  Yuri Milner

  Life, Intelligent, World

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• I have not seen anyone assume that all the citizens of New York are guilty of murder, violence, robbery, perjury, or writing proprietary software.

  Richard Stallman

  New York, Writing, Violence

  "MyDoom and You". www.gnu.org. 2004.

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