Software Quotes - Page 9

• It's hardware that makes a machine fast. It's software that makes a fast machine slow.

  Craig Reucassel

  Machines, Computer, Hardware

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• As a rule, software systems do not work well until they have been used, and have failed repeatedly, in real applications.

  David Parnas

  Real, Learning, Insomnia

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• When I write software, I know that it will fail, either due to my own mistake, or due to some other cause.

  Wietse Venema

  Mistake, Writing, Causes

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• Software comes from heaven when you have good hardware.

  Ken Olsen

  Heaven, Computer, Hardware

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• It's hard to read through a book on the principles of magic without glancing at the cover periodically to make sure it isn't a book on software design.

  Bruce Tognazzini

  Book, Simplicity, Design

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• Wit and puns aren't just décor in the mind; they're essential signs that the mind knows it's on, recognizes its own software, can spot the bugs in its own program.

  Adam Gopnik

  Mind, Essentials, Bugs

  "Get Smart" by Adam Gopnik, www.newyorker.com. April 4, 2011.

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• One of the great skills in using any language is knowing what not to use, what not to say. There's that simplicity thing again.

  Ron Jeffries

  Skills, Knowing, Simplicity

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• Originally, I wanted a machine that would cost $100. My idea was to spend nothing on the console technology so all the money could be spent on improving the interface and software. If we hadn't used NAND flash memory and other pricey parts, we might have succeeded.

  Shigeru Miyamoto

  Memories, Technology, Ideas

  Business Week Interview (On Wii), November 16, 2006.

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• A little retrospection shows that although many fine, useful software systems have been designed by committees and built as part of multipart projects, those software systems that have excited passionate fans are those that are the products of one or a few designing minds, great designers.

  Fred Brooks

  Design, Mind, Fans

  "No Silver Bullet – Essence and Accident in Software Engineering". Paper by Fred Brooks, 1986.

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• Tip: Take the stodgiest, oldest, slowest moving industry you can find. And build amazing software for it.

  Aaron Levie

  Moving, Industry

  Twitter post from Oct 09, 2013

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• Here's the problem right now; the person who is savvy enough to want to have a good PC to upgrade their video card, is a person who is savvy enough to know bit torrent to know all the elements so they can pirate software. Therefore, high-end videogames are suffering very much on the PC.

  Cliff Bleszinski

  Pirate, Suffering, Video

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• Companies in every industry need to assume that a software revolution is coming.

  Marc Andreessen

  Needs, Revolution, Assuming

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• Over the next 10 years, I expect many more industries to be disrupted by software, with new world-beating Silicon Valley companies doing the disruption in more cases than not.

  Marc Andreessen

  Years, Valleys, World

  "Barefoot Networks' New Chips Will Transform The Tech Industry" by Cade Metz, www.wired.com. June 14, 2016.

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• It is food - we now know that food is information, not just calories, and that it can upgrade your biologic software. The majority of chronic disease is primarily a food borne illness. We ate ourselves into this problem and we have to eat ourselves out of it.

  Mark Hyman, M.D.

  Majority, Disease, Information

  "Can Social Networks Cure Disease? Part I" by Mark Hyman, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 20, 2012.

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• No one should expect building a new high-growth, software-powered company in an established industry to be easy. It's brutally difficult.

  Marc Andreessen

  Growth, Building, Easy

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

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• In short, software is eating the world

  Marc Andreessen

  World, Eating

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• More and more major industries are being run on software and delivered as online services—from movies to agriculture to national defense. Many of the winners are Silicon Valley-style entrepreneurial technology companies that are invading and overturning established industry structures. Over the next 10 years, I expect many more industries to be disrupted by software, with new world-beating Silicon Valley companies doing the disruption in more cases than not.

  Marc Andreessen

  Running, Technology, Agriculture

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• I regularly read Internet user groups filled with messages from people trying to solve software incompatibility problems that, in terms of complexity, make the U.S. Tax Code look like Dr. Seuss.

  Dave Barry

  Reading, People, Trying

  Dave Barry (2010). “Dave Barry in Cyberspace”, p.50, Ballantine Books

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• Digital art software has empowered both the painterly side of photographers, and the photographer side of painters.

  Buffy Sainte-Marie

  Photography, Art, Digital

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• This is what our customers are asking for to take them to the next level and free them from the bondage of mainframe and client-server software.

  Marc Benioff

  Next Level, Asking, Levels

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• Crappy old OSes have value in the basically negative sense that changing to new ones makes us wish we'd never been born.

  Neal Stephenson

  Design, Wish, Negative

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• I love software, because if you can imagine something, you can build it.

  Ray Ozzie

  Imagine, Ifs

  "Ray Ozzie Wants to Push Microsoft Back Into Startup Mode" by Steven Levy, www.wired.com. November 24, 2008.

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• If you love a medium made of software, there's a danger that you will become entrapped in someone else's recent careless thoughts. Struggle against that.

  Jaron Lanier

  Struggle, Danger, Made

  Jaron Lanier (2010). “You Are Not a Gadget”, p.22, Vintage

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• It's called 'reading'.  It's how people install new software into their brains.

  Randy Glasbergen

  Reading, People, Brain

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• Any editing, software work, and mail is done in this exported Plan 9

  Dennis Ritchie

  Editing, Done, Mail

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