Best 89 quotes in «software quotes» category

I wrote a piece of software in 1998 that created fictional weather.

It seems certain that much of the success of Unix follows from the readability, modifiability, and portability of its software.

Our mailing lists (and their repeater newsgroups) are only for the purpose of promoting proprietary software.

Prolific programmers contribute to certain disaster.

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

I've always been obsessed with electronics and using computers and software. It's always been part of my vernacular.

Like any well designed software product, Windows is designed, developed and tested as an integrated whole.

Like many older fans of Free Software and Open Source, I have discovered that it is really only free in the sense that the time you spend on it is worthless.

Of all the things you can spend a lot of money on, the only things you expect to fail frequently are software and medicine.

Of course, I have my own limits as to how much game software I can take care of at any one time.

Proprietary software tends to have malicious features. The point is with a proprietary program, when the users dont have the source code, we can never tell. So you must consider every proprietary program as potential malware.

Shareware tends to combine the worst of commercial software with the worst of free software.

Software comes from heaven when you have good hardware.

Software is a great combination between artistry and engineering.

Software as an asset isn't stable over time; it needs to be maintained.

Software engineering economics.

Software engineering is not about right and wrong but only better and worse

Software gets slower faster than hardware gets faster.

Structure is translation software for your imagination.

The free software community should be supported more widely. I’m totally in solidarity with what they do.

Software was changing so fast, so unbelievable, that that got very quick adoption.

Software is the magic thing whose importance only goes up over time.

Software sucks because users demand it to.

The structure of software systems tend to reflect the structure of the organization that produce them.

The software is where the magic is. If you're going to have all this power be simple enough, appealing enough and cool enough, it's going to be because the software is right.

Uruguay is one of the biggest producers of software. We are breaking with the neoliberal model. We do not believe in free trade.

We decided that the French could never write user-friendly software because they're so rude.

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.

[We in Microsoft] are not the only software company but we are a great software company doing some unique work.

...your Web browser is Ronald Reagan.

You can mass-produce hardware; you cannot mass-produce software - you cannot mass-produce the human mind.

believe the power of jQuery is highly underutilized. Most developers will take advantage of its shortcuts and CSS selectors, but most of the time they fail to take advantage of much else. Being able to extend jQuery, whether by adding your own functions, CSS selectors or full-blown plugins, makes you a much stronger and smarter developer.

Computer hacking was like a chemical bond holding us all together.

Cross-Site Request Forgery exempt is a license to invoke a DJango REST API view.

A good standalone plugin can also make you a fair amount of money. Many developers make a decent living by simply maintaining and updating one or two crucial plugins that are far better than anything available for free.

Be conservative in what you do, be liberal in what you accept from others

Developer is the one who creates bugs/defects mostly and working code rarely

Education is meant to increase the confidence of a person to face the world.

El desarrollo de software comparte con el deporte profesional la característica de lograr que los treintañeros se sientan decrépitos

every successful hardware has a software behind

If a shell is in front of you side by side with an editor, you must be a developer.

HARDWARE ....................SOFTWARE Car...................................Petrol Tube-light, fan....................Electricity Book.................................Story Tape-recorder..................Music recorded TV.....................................Serials, TV programmes etc Mobile...............................Symbian, Lollipop, Kitkat etc Computer.........................MS DOS, Linux, Windows etc Brain................................Mind Society.............................Governance Universe..........................GOD!! So GOD is the Ultimate software, THAT runs the entire Universe from the spinning of an electron to the explosion of stars and formation of galaxies!!

In my experience, requirements change quite often, or new situations will arise that weren’t anticipated at the start of the project. If the situation can be addressed with a plugin, I just whip open the standalone plugin page, make the updates and pop the new plugin back in. Because the plugin is self-contained, it’s easy to recreate the problem, fix it, and get it back into the codebase.

India is the only country wherein the total number of engineers exceeds the number of vehicles on the road.

In the era of surveillance of the masses, I like to use phrases like terrorists, assassinate, bomb, explosions, attack, weapons of mass destruction, and so on in my on-line activities to screw up the automated government surveillance software.

Programming is a social activity.

I vividly remember going to Google Docs, opening a document at the same time other students were working on it, and seeing their differently colored cursors moving around the screen, typing new words and making edits in real time. It was an epiphany.

One cannot be successful as an architect without thinking of not only what to do, but how to get it done within an organization, which requires knowing why it should matter to someone who isn’t a technologist.

In this chapter we've seen that, unlike when building a house, when it comes to software it's almost impossible to know what you want. And even if you did know, it would be impossible to know how long each part would take to do. And even if you did know the theoretical length of each task, it would be impossible to work out the amount of time it would take an actual team of a specified size to do it. Which goes some way to explaning the sordid catalogue of failure that is the history of software projects over the last fifty years.

Obviously, a lot of people involved with Volkswagen's emissions were aware of the diesel car software cheat. One has to wonder how many of them tried to stop it and perhaps were demoted or lost their jobs over trying to prevent the secret Volkswagen car emissions fraud?