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
Microsoft is the productivity and platform company for the mobile-first and cloud-first world. — Satya Nadella
In many cases the user interface to a program is the most important part for a commercial company: whether the programs works correctly or not seems to be secondary. — Linus Torvalds
Software comes from heaven when you have good hardware. — Ken Olsen
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
Only drug dealers and software companies call their customers 'users' — Edward Tufte
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
Being a tech company has to be about a pattern of repetitive innovation. — Chamath Palihapitiya
The function of good software is to make the complex appear to be simple. — Grady Booch
Many companies aspire to change the world. But very few have all the elements required: talent, resources and perseverance. Microsoft has proven that it has all three in abundance. — Satya Nadella
There's a handful of exceptionally good companies, but there's always one company that's the best. — Chamath Palihapitiya
Venture capitalists are like lemmings jumping on the software bandwagon. — Adam Osborne
I developed some unique software to public it on the web that I call the Folklore Project. — Andy Hertzfeld
This is the largest market opportunity the IT industry has ever seen. — Jensen Huang
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
Short Software Company Quotes
In software systems it is often the early bird that makes the worm. — Alan Perlis
The Silicon Valley model is a builder and seller. — Naval Ravikant
Great companies are built by people who never stop thinking about ways to improve the business. — J. Willard Marriott
A company's employees are its greatest asset and your people are your product — Richard Branson
Software is eating the world, but AI is going to eat software. — Jensen Huang
Never in the annals of software engineering was so much owed by so many to so few lines of code — Martin Fowler
It's where we become our best company. — Jay Shetty
Good companies will meet needs; great companies will create markets. — Philip Kotler
The single most important thing for any processor is getting adoption by software developers. — Jensen Huang
It's hardware that makes a machine fast. It's software that makes a fast machine slow. — Craig Bruce
Software Company Image Quotes
The key is to keep company only with people who uplift you, whose presence calls forth your best.
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
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
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
It's hardware that makes a machine fast. It's software that makes a fast machine slow. — Craig Reucassel
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 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
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
Computers themselves, and software yet to be developed, will revolutionize the way we learn. — Steve Jobs
When to use iterative development? You should use iterative development only on projects that you want to succeed. — Martin Fowler
Custom Software Quotes
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
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
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
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
Software Engineering Quotes
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
Computers are good at following instructions, but not at reading your mind. — Donald Knuth
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. — Niklaus Wirth
Good code is its own best documentation. As you're about to add a comment, ask yourself, "How can I improve the code so that this comment isn't needed?" Improve the code and then document it to make it even clearer. — Steve McConnell
The cheapest, fastest, and most reliable components are those that aren't there. — Gordon Bell
Hiring people to write code to sell is not the same as hiring people to design and build durable, usable, dependable software. — Larry Constantine
It's a curious thing about our industry: not only do we not learn from our mistakes, we also don't learn from our successes. — Keith Braithwaite
It should be noted that no ethically-trained software engineer would ever consent to write a DestroyBaghdad procedure. Basic professional ethics would instead require him to write a DestroyCity procedure, to which Baghdad could be given as a parameter. — Nathaniel Borenstein
Software Quotes
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
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
This ability of Life 2.0 to design its software enables it to be much smarter than Life 1.0. — Max Tegmark
If you wanna make money, you should want to make it while adding value. there are lots of rich people who objectively subtracted from human productivity with abuse of switching cost, monopolistic crap software etc etc. pox on that. add value. — Adam Back
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
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
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
...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
The security world needs to take a more proactive approach. A lot of companies will know an exploit exists and they'll release the software anyways, and the patch later on. Stuff like this needs to stop. There needs to be some kind of agency that verifies code before it's released, maybe a grading system for code. — Michael Demon Calce
The most important thing was the creation of a... a standard, where hundreds of companies build hardware that can all run the same software. — Bill Gates
Imagine the disincentive to software development if after months of work another company could come along and copy your work and market it under its own name...without legal restraints to such copying, companies like Apple could not afford to advance the state of the art. — Bill Gates
If there could've ever been a magical time to build an enterprise software company, now is absolutely that time. — Aaron Levie
It's my job for Oracle, the number two software company in the world; to become the number one software company in the world. My job is to build better than the competition, sell those products in the marketplace and eventually supplant Microsoft and move from being number two to number one. — Larry Ellison
Software companies should take more responsibility for security holes, especially in browsers and e-mail clients. There are some straightforward things the industry should be doing right now to fix things, and I don't know why they haven't been done yet. — Tim Berners-Lee
The engineering is long gone in most PC companies. In the consumer electronics companies, they don't understand the software parts of it. And so you really can't make the products that you can make at Apple anywhere else right now. Apple's the only company that has everything under one roof. — Steve Jobs
My own theory is that we are in the middle of a dramatic and broad technological and economic shift in which software companies are poised to take over large swathes of the economy. — Marc Andreessen
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
Companies in every industry need to assume that a software revolution is coming. — Marc Andreessen
My first company, Pure Software, was exciting and innovative in the first few years and bureaucratic and painful in the last few before it got acquired. The problem was we tried to systemize everything and set up perfect procedures. — Reed Hastings
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 collectively, to get things done, work together as a team. Because the work really happens horizontally in our company, not vertically. Products are horizontal. It takes hardware plus software plus services to make a killer product. — Tim Cook
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
I think we should be clear: Companies will still need software that furthers their corporate goals and even gives them competitive advantage. That would be purchased and developed, if necessary, in house, or on a proprietary basis. But it needs to run on the company's computer system eventually, and its perfectly possible that system/network can be "rented out" from a utility. — Steven Pearlstein
If you look at the top 10 enterprise software companies, a lot of them are important but irrelevant companies. It's really important to be relevant and important. — Marc Benioff
When we see companies who are in complicit relationships with China, for example, making huge profits by providing China with the very software that enables the state to censor its own people, that is not acceptable. We need to engage with such companies to make their responsibilities clear. — Mary Robinson
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
Obviously solving the education problem is big and complex, and there's already so many failings, but coding is the new fluency. This is the most valuable skill of this century. If you want to be a founder of a company, and not even just a tech company, but like a founder of a company, because I'm telling you software is going to play a role. — Alexis Ohanian
From a client perspective, I really think the work Microsoft's doing with Surface, with HoloLens, with Xbox, that stuff's absolutely essential to the company's future. Because innovation in the future will either be from the cloud out to all devices, or from devices as supported by software in the cloud. I think it's important for Microsoft to participate both ways. — Steve Ballmer
There's a tendency to make jazzy educational software that's very uniform and therefore just like school. I'd like to see a company develop software for rebellious kids who don't want to go to school. — Seymour Papert
While the creative works from the 16th century can still be accessed and used by others, the data in some software programs from the 1990s is already inaccessible. Once a company that produces a certain product goes out of business, it has no simple way to uncover how its product encoded data. The code is thus lost, and the software is inaccessible. Knowledge has been destroyed. — Lawrence Lessig
Companies made these decisions about encryption when they were finding it very difficult to sell their products overseas because the [Edward] Snowden disclosures created the impression that the U.S. government was inside this hardware and software produced by them. They needed to do something to deal with the perception. — Michael Morell
Yes, virus companies are playing on your fears to try to sell you bs protection software for Android, RIM and IOS. They are charlatans and scammers. IF you work for a company selling virus protection for android, rim or IOS you should be ashamed of yourself. — Chris DiBona
We didn't really start the company to go build an enterprise software company. — Aaron Levie
My opinion is that the only two computer companies that are software-driven are Apple and NeXT, and I wonder about Apple. — Steve Jobs
We had the hardware expertise, the industrial design expertise and the software expertise, including iTunes. One of the biggest insights we have was that we decided not to try to manage your music library on the iPod, but to manage it in iTunes. Other companies tried to do everything on the device itself and made it so complicated that it was useless. — Steve Jobs
Watching nonprogrammers trying to run software companies is like watching someone who doesn’t know how to surf trying to surf. Even if he has great advisers standing on the shore telling him what to do, he still falls off the board again and again. — Joel Spolsky
As the web becomes more and more of a part of our every day lives, it would be a horrible tragedy if it was locked up inside of companies and proprietary software. — Matt Mullenweg
Ironically, the main task of chess software companies today is to find ways to make the program weaker, not stronger, and to provide enough options that any user can pick from different levels and the machine will try to make enough mistakes to give him a chance. — Garry Kasparov
The NeXT purchase is too little too late. The Apple of the past was an innovative company that used software and hardware technology together to redefine the way people experienced computing. That Apple is already dead. Very adroit moves might be able to save the brand name. A company with the letters A-P-P-L-E in its name might survive, but it won't be the Apple of yore. — Nathan Myhrvold
Software touches all of these different things you use, and tech companies are revolutionizing all different areas of the world...from how we shop to how farming works, all these things that aren't technical are being turned upside down by software. So being able to play in that universe really makes a difference. — Drew Houston
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