First, I'd like to see the basic tools such as compilers, debuggers, profilers, database interfaces, GUI builders, CAD tools, and so forth fully support the ISO standard. — Bjarne Stroustrup
It's hardware that makes a machine fast. It's software that makes a fast machine slow. — Craig Bruce
It's hardware that makes a machine fast. It's software that makes a fast machine slow. — Craig Reucassel
Computers themselves, and software yet to be developed, will revolutionize the way we learn. — Steve Jobs
The amazing thing about software is that you can continually iterate on it. You’re never done. — Jeff Lawson
Companies that make keys, credit card companies, any company in the service business - anything to do with a consumer is probably a software company. — Michael Saylor
Only drug dealers and software companies call their customers 'users' — Edward Tufte
Considering the current sad state of our computer programs, software development is clearly still a black art, and cannot yet be called an engineering discipline. — William J. Clinton
Computer Software Quotes
Most of the good programmers do programming not because they expect to get paid or get adulation by the public, but because it is fun to program. — Linus Torvalds
If debugging is the process of removing software bugs, then programming must be the process of putting them in. — Edsger Dijkstra
Debugging is twice as hard as writing the code in the first place. Therefore, if you write the code as cleverly as possible, you are, by definition, not smart enough to debug it. — Brian Kernighan
Customers will never love a company until the employees love it first.
The most amazing achievement of the computer software industry is its continuing cancellation of the steady and staggering gains made by the computer hardware industry. — Henry Petroski
It takes a touch of genius - and a lot of courage to move in the opposite direction. — Albert Einstein
The question of whether computers can think is like the question of whether submarines can swim. — Edsger Dijkstra
Don't find customers for your products, find products for your customers.
Diaspora starts about a thousand years from now. Most of human civilisation has moved inside computers; essentially, a major branch of our descendants consists of conscious software. — Greg Egan
Any fool can write code that a computer can understand. Good programmers write code that humans can understand. — Martin Fowler
The novice-friendly software is more like a misbehaving dog: it shits on the floor, it destroys things, and stinks - the novice-friendly software embodies the opposite of what computer people have dreamed of for decades: artificial stupidity. It's more human. — Erik Naggum
Software Company Quotes
Invest in startups. Start a company. Create a book, podcast, video. Create a software product. go on many first dates. go to a cocktail party. read a lindy book. move to a big city. buy bitcoin. tweet. — Naval Ravikant
Hardware: where the people in your company's software section will tell you the problem is. Software: where the people in your company's hardware section will tell you the problem is. — Dave Barry
Blockchain software companies may end up being amalgamated into existing software giants, at which point blockchain patents will just become part of the existing patent war. — Vitalik Buterin
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
I believe that software, and in fact entire companies, should be run in a way that assumes that the sum of the talent of people outside your walls is greater than the sum of the few you have inside. None of us are as smart as all of us. — Matt Mullenweg
I'm the founder of the McAfee Anti-Virus Software Company. Although I have had nothing to do with this company for over 15 years, I still get volumes of mail asking 'how do I uninstall this software'. I have no idea. — John McAfee
...heavy investments in information technology have delivered disappointing results - largely because companies tend to use technology to mechanize old ways of doing business...Instead of embedding outdated processes in silicon and software, we should obliterate them and start over. — Michael Martin Hammer
[We in Microsoft] are not the only software company but we are a great software company doing some unique work. — Bill Gates
Here's the secret that every successful software company is based on: You can domesticate programmers the way beekeepers tame bees. You can't exactly communicate with them, but you can get them to swarm in one place and when they're not looking, you can carry off the honey. — Orson Scott Card
We will still be enormously profitable and by far the most profitable enterprise software company. — Larry Ellison
Software Quotes
Venture capitalists are like lemmings jumping on the software bandwagon. — Adam Osborne
Software is the language of automation. — Jensen Huang
With bundled machines you can throw away the hardware and keep the software, and it's still a good buy. — Adam Osborne
I think that the most beautiful thing lately hasn't been in hardware or software per se but collaboration - the idea behind Napster, which uses the distributed power of the Internet as its engine. — Steven Levy
There's nothing more frustrating than seeing cynics sit there and say, 'Well, nobody can make any more money because Microsoft and Intel own everything.' Is the software industry mature, or is it embryonic? I would say it's embryonic. There will be a hundred more Microsofts, not just one. — Michael Saylor
In other words, we can think of life as a self-replicating information-processing system whose information — Max Tegmark
Bitcoin is a bank in cyberspace, run by incorruptible software, offering a global, affordable, simple and secure savings account to billions of people that don't have the option or desire to run their own hedge fund. — Michael Saylor
I basically got an education in software on DuPont's money because they were too stubborn to admit that a recession was coming. — Michael Saylor
The industries that fall first are the industries that either produce electromechanical items that are now inferior to their software substitutes, or the industries that produce a mechanically created service that's now inferior. — Michael Saylor
You don't advise people to buy and hold gold. You advise people to use software that shows ledger entries for gold held by strangers, the security of which relies not only on trust in strangers and their politics, but on PINs and passwords. — Nick Szabo
Software Development Quotes
When debugging, novices insert corrective code; experts remove defective code. — Richard E. Pattis
Deep Learning is a form of human-assisted but mostly constraint-driven software development. It works because a particular smooth relaxation of program space allows a surprisingly efficient and effective local search. Something like that, my favorite definition. — Andrej Karpathy
The suddenness of the leap from hardware to software cannot but produce a period of anarchy and collapse, especially in the developed countries. — Marshall McLuhan
The trouble with programmers is that you can never tell what a programmer is doing until it's too late. — Seymour Cray
The single most important thing for any processor is getting adoption by software developers. — Jensen Huang
When someone says, "I want a programming language in which I need only say what I want done," give him a lollipop. — Alan Perlis
The most important single aspect of software development is to be clear about what you are trying to build. — Bjarne Stroustrup
To understand recursion, one must first understand recursion. — Stephen Hawking
I developed some unique software to public it on the web that I call the Folklore Project. — Andy Hertzfeld
When to use iterative development? You should use iterative development only on projects that you want to succeed. — Martin Fowler
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
All of us who attended the meeting - including Microsoft - unanimously agreed that unilaterally extending the Java programming language would hurt compatibility among Java tools and programs, would injure other tools vendors and would damage customers' ability to run a Java-based software product on whatever platform they wished. — James Gosling
Analytical software enables you to shift human resources from rote data collection to value-added customer service and support where the human touch makes a profound difference. — Bill Gates
We want to have a diverse workforce that mirrors our customer base. Diversity of thought, we believe, is crucial to business success. We also are a tech company. And when we look at the skills that we need going forward, software engineers, electrical engineers, strong technology backgrounds, that's key for success as well. — Mary T. Barra
Software: These programs give instruction to the CPU, which processes billions of tiny facts called bytes, and within a fraction of a second it sends you an error message that requires you to call the customer-support hot line and be placed on hold for approximately the life-span of a caribou. — Dave Barry
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
We also had good software in the key categories and more focus on the gameplaying capability, so more of the marketing effort was targeted at game customers. — Trip Hawkins
In software, we rarely have meaningful requirements. Even if we do, the only measure of success that matters is whether our solution solves the customer's shifting idea of what their problem is. — Jeff Atwood
We can collaborate with a Netscape employee or partner who's halfway around the world. We can distribute information and software to customers and shareholders, and get their feedback. — James L. Barksdale
If you want to measure social media ROI, stop wasting your time doing software demos and attending webinars. Just figure out what you want to track, where you can track it, think about both current customers and new customers, and go do it. — Jay Baer
We can provide beta software to our developers in advance of the general public. We can easily link up with external partners, customers, and suppliers. — Jim Barksdale
Software innovation, like almost every other kind of innovation, requires the ability to collaborate and share ideas with other people, and to sit down and talk with customers and get their feedback and understand their needs. — Bill Gates
We can provide beta software to our developers in advance of the general public. We can easily link up with external partners, customers, and suppliers. — James L. Barksdale
So far, Indian companies have focused more on customer application. This needs to shift to packaged software for sectors such as banking and financial services. — Sanjay Kumar
We can collaborate with a Netscape employee or partner who's halfway around the world. We can distribute information and software to customers and shareholders, and get their feedback. — Jim Barksdale
Apple is the only company that can take hardware, software, and services and integrate those into an experience that's an 'aha' for the customer. You can take that and apply to markets that we're not in today. — Tim Cook
Now companies tend to mine gigantic databases for insights into what might happen six months from now. That might always be valuable, but there's a different kind of value - and a competitive edge - in processing ongoing streams of data through a software model that can quickly and constantly make predictions about, say, whether a certain customer is going to defect, or an aircraft is going to run into trouble. — Kevin Maney
Observe that for the programmer, as for the chef, the urgency of the patron may govern the scheduled completion of the task, but it cannot govern the actual completion. An omelette, promised in two minutes, may appear to be progressing nicely. But when it has not set in two minutes, the customer has two choices - wait or eat it raw. Software customers have had the same choices. — Fred Brooks
Because software is all about scale. The larger you are, the more profitable you are. If we sell twice as much as software, it doesn't cost us twice as much to build that software. So the more customers you have, the more scale you have. The larger you are, the more profitable you are. — Larry Ellison
Listen to your customers, but don't always build exactly what they're telling you. This is a really key distinction around building enterprise software. — Aaron Levie
We're going from a world of customized software to standardized platforms. — Aaron Levie
It applies in any business. Shoemakers should be run by shoe guys, and software firms by software guys, and supermarkets by supermarket guys. With the advice and support of their bean counters, absolutely, but with the final word going to those who live and breathe the customer experience. Passion and drive for excellence will win over the computer-like, dispassionate, analysis-driven philosophy every time. — Bob Lutz
The business models in enterprise have changed pretty dramatically. A huge problem with enterprise software traditionally has been usually you sell to the customer and then they adopt the technology. The great thing about 'freemium' and the new way enterprise software is being sold is you get to try it first and then buy it. — Aaron Levie
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