Quotes about Software

Caffeine Allocation Error: COFFEE.SYS missing, Programmer halted.

You must understand that each religion is a kind of software that has its own set of signals and will work.

As for building something users love, here are some general tips. Start by making something clean and simple that you would want to use yourself. Get a version 1.0 out fast, then continue to improve the software, listening closely to users as you do. The customer is always right, but different customers are right about different things; the least sophisticated users show you what you need to simplify and clarify, and the most sophisticated tell you what features you need to add.

Number 1, languages vary in power. Number 2, most managers deliberately ignore this. Between them, these two facts are literally a recipe for making money. ITA is an example of this recipe in action. If you want to win in a software business, just take on the hardest problem you can find, use the most powerful language you can get, and wait for your competitors' pointy-haired bosses to revert to the mean.

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.

Beta. Software undergoes beta testing shortly before it's released. Beta is Latin for "still doesn't work."

The NeXT Computer The hardware makes it a PC, the software makes it a workstation, the unit sales makes it a mainframe.

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.

DNA is like a computer program but far, far more advanced than any software ever created.

People everywhere love Windows.

Learn to program by looking at good programs — not just at what they do, but at the source code.

A great lathe operator commands several times the wage of an average lathe operator, but a great writer of software code is worth 10,000 times the price of an average software writer.