Software Quotes - page 3

I never imagined that the Free Software Movement would spawn a watered-down alternative, the Open Source Movement, which would become so well-known that people would ask me questions about "open source" thinking that I work under that banner. (Richard Stallman)
My favorite programming languages are Lisp and C. However, since around 1992 I have worked mainly on free software activism, which means I am too busy to do much programming. Around 2008 I stopped doing programming projects. View quote
Richard Stallman
When I was at Tek, I was frustrated that computer hardware was being improved faster than computer software. I wanted to invent some software that was completely different, that would grow and change as it was used. That's how wiki came about. View quote
Ward Cunningham
The required techniques of effective reasoning are pretty formal, but as long as programming is done by people that don't master them, the software crisis will remain with us and will be considered an incurable disease. And you know what incurable diseases do: they invite the quacks and charlatans in, who in this case take the form of Software Engineering gurus. View quote
Edsger W. Dijkstra
Software development is technical activity conducted by human beings. View quote
Niklaus Wirth
Indeed, the woes of Software Engineering are not due to lack of tools, or proper management, but largely due to lack of sufficient technical competence. View quote
Niklaus Wirth
Software is getting slower more rapidly than hardware becomes faster. View quote
Niklaus Wirth
Sharing the code just seems like The Right Thing to Do, it costs us rather little, but it benefits a lot of people in sometimes very significant ways. There are many university research projects, proof of concept publisher demos, and new platform test beds that have leveraged the code. Free software that people value adds wealth to the world. View quote
John D. Carmack
The essence of a software entity is a construct of interlocking concepts. I believe the hard part of building software to be the specification, design, and testing of this conceptual construct, not the labor of representing it and testing the fidelity of the representation. View quote
Fred Brooks
The complexity of software is an essential property, not an accidental one. Hence, descriptions of a software entity that abstract away its complexity often abstracts away its essence. View quote
Fred Brooks
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)
Far too often, "software engineering" is neither engineering nor about software. View quote
Bjarne Stroustrup
Really great blogs do not take the place of great microprocessors. Great blogs do not replace great software. Lots and lots of blogs does not replace lots and lots of sales. View quote
Larry Ellison
Technology is an inherent democratizer. Because of the evolution of hardware and software, you're able to scale up almost anything. It means that in our lifetime everyone may have tools of equal power. View quote
Sergey Brin
The function of good software is to make the complex appear to be simple. View quote
Grady Booch
If anything, there's a reverse Moore's Law observable in software: As processors become faster and memory becomes cheaper, software becomes correspondingly slower and more bloated, using up all available resources. View quote
Jaron Lanier
Software breaks before it bends, so it demands perfection in a universe that prefers statistics. View quote
Jaron Lanier
The great thing about crummy software is the amount of employment it generates. View quote
Jaron Lanier
My own personal dream is that the majority of the web runs on open source software. View quote
Matt Mullenweg
Your "use case" should be, there's a 22 year old college student living in the dorms. How will this software get him laid? View quote
Jamie Zawinski
If you want to do something that's going to change the world, build software that people want to use instead of software that managers want to buy. (Jamie Zawinski)
We can't ever forget that the Internet now is just a staid utility. The exciting platforms are software applications that are very, very simple. View quote
Mark Cuban
Collective intelligence. Think of how Wikipedia works, how Amazon harnesses user annotation on its site, the way photo-sharing sites like Flickr are bleeding out into other applications... We're entering an era in which software learns from its users and all of the users are connected. View quote
Tim O'Reilly
Twenty-five years ago, the notion was you could create a general problem-solver software that could solve problems in many different domains. That just turned out to be totally wrong. View quote
Howard Gardner
Technology has moved away from sharing and toward ownership. This suits software and hardware companies just fine: They create new, bloated programs that require more disk space and processing power. We buy bigger, faster computers, which then require more complex operating systems, and so on. View quote
Douglas Rushkoff