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• Today's leading real-world retailer, Wal-Mart, uses software to power its logistics and distribution capabilities, which it has used to crush its competition

  Marc Andreessen

  Crush, Real, Competition

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• I think software patents are a bad idea. Many patents are given for trivial inventions.

  Larry Wall

  Thinking, Ideas, Patents

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• Perhaps the single most dramatic example of this phenomenon of software eating a traditional business is the suicide of Borders and corresponding rise of Amazon

  Marc Andreessen

  Suicide, Example, Borders

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• By the time Apple's Macintosh operating system finally falls into the public domain, there will be no machine that could possibly run it. The term of copyright for software is effectively unlimited.

  Lawrence Lessig

  Running, Fall, Apples

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

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• Qualified software engineers, managers, marketers and salespeople in Silicon Valley can rack up dozens of high-paying, high-upside job offers any time they want, while national unemployment and underemployment is sky high

  Marc Andreessen

  Jobs, Sky, Unemployment

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• We'll get a chance to go through this [Apple versus Microsoft debate] again in phones and music players. There's no chance that the iPhone is going to get any significant market share. No chance. It's a $500 subsidized item. They may make a lot of money. But if you actually take a look at the 1.3 billion phones that get sold, I'd prefer to have our software in 60% or 70% or 80% of them, than I would to have 2% or 3%, which is what Apple might get.

  Steve Ballmer

  Player, Apples, Iphone

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• Our goal in making these changes is to enable Microsoft to achieve greater agility in managing the incredible growth ahead and executing our software-based services strategy.

  Steve Ballmer

  Goal, Growth, Agility

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• Since when has the world of computer software design been about what people want? This is a simple question of evolution. The day is quickly coming when every knee will bow down to a silicon fist, and you will all beg your binary gods for mercy.

  Bill Gates

  Simple, Hands, People

  "Unleash the Billionaire Within: Learn the Mastermind Principles for Acquiring Wealth Beyond Imagination". Book by Esmonde Holowaty, p. 298, 2011.

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• More and more major businesses and industries are being run on software and delivered as online services - from movies to agriculture to national defense.

  Marc Andreessen

  Running, Agriculture, Defense

  "Why Software Is Eating The World" by Marc Andreessen, www.wsj.com. August 20, 2011.

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• Our democracy, our constitutional framework is really a kind of software for harnessing the creativity and political imagination for all of our people. The American democratic system was an early political version of Napster.

  Al Gore

  Creativity, People, Imagination

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• Every piece of software written today is likely going to infringe on someone else's patent.

  Miguel de Icaza

  Patents, Pieces, Today

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• Our strategy in dealing with patents in Mono is the same strategy that any other software developer would take. In the event of a patent claim, we will try to find prior art to the claim of the patent.

  Miguel de Icaza

  Art, Trying, Patents

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• Artificial intelligence is based on the assumption that the mind can be described as some kind of formal system manipulating symbols that stand for things in the world. Thus it doesn't matter what the brain is made of, or what it uses for tokens in the great game of thinking. Using an equivalent set of tokens and rules, we can do thinking with a digital computer, just as we can play chess using cups, salt and pepper shakers, knives, forks, and spoons. Using the right software, one system (the mind) can be mapped onto the other (the computer).

  George Johnson

  Science, Thinking, Knives

  George Johnson (2011). “Machinery of the Mind”, p.450, Crown

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• Let us change our traditional attitude to the construction of programs. Instead of imagining that our main task is to instruct a computer what to do, let us concentrate rather on explaining to human beings what we want a computer to do.

  Donald Knuth

  Change, Attitude, Learning

  "The Art of Computer Programming. Volume 3". Book by Donald Knuth, www.wired.com. 1973.

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• Human beings either function as individuals or as members of a pack. There's a switch inside us, deep in our spirit, that you can turn one way or the other. It's almost always the case that our worst behaviour comes out when we're switched to the mob setting. The problem with a lot of software designs is that they switch us to that setting.

  Jaron Lanier

  Design, Behaviour, Way

  "My bright idea: Jaron Lanier". Interview with Aleks Krotoski, www.theguardian.com. February 20, 2010.

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• The default movement on a software project should be in the direction of taking elements of the software away to make it simpler rather than adding elements to make it more complex.

  Steve McConnell

  Simplicity, Elements, Movement

  Steve McConnell (1997). “Software Project Survival Guide”, p.48, Microsoft Press

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• For the average home-user, anti-virus software is a must.

  Kevin Mitnick

  Home, Average, Viruses

  "Talk time: Kevin Mitnick". Interview with Hamish Mackintosh, www.theguardian.com. July 23, 2003.

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• In computers, every 'new explosion' was set off by a software product that allowed users to program differently.

  Alan Kay

  Statistics, Computer, Program

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• You are in big trouble when you start writing software to impress girls.

  Bruce Ellis

  Girl, Writing, Statistics

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• When it comes to software, I much prefer free software, because I have very seldom seen a program that has worked well enough for my needs, and having sources available can be a life-saver.

  Linus Torvalds

  Needs, Enough, Economy

  "Linux's Linus Torvalds Interview". Interview with Hiroo Yamagata, www.drdobbs.com. January 1, 2002.

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• There were open source projects and free software before Linux was there. Linux in many ways is one of the more visible and one of the bigger technical projects in this area, and it changed how people looked at it because Linux took both the practical and ideological approach.

  Linus Torvalds

  People, Way, Linux

  "Reclusive Linux founder opens up". Interview with Kristie Lu Stout, edition.cnn.com. May 19, 2006.

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• Venture capitalists are like lemmings jumping on the software bandwagon.

  Adam Osborne

  Jumping, Entrepreneur, Decision

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• Trying to read our DNA is like trying to understand software code - with only 90% of the code riddled with errors. It's very difficult in that case to understand and predict what that software code is going to do.

  Elon Musk

  Errors, Dna, Trying

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• So what I was essentially doing was, I compromised the confidentiality of their proprietary software to advance my agenda of becoming the best at breaking through the lock.

  Kevin Mitnick

  Becoming The Best, Locks, Agendas

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• What is very little understood about the electronic age is that it angelizes man, disembodies him. Turns him into software.

  Marshall McLuhan

  Men, Age, Littles

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