Here, we’ve compiled a list of the best Software Quotes from famous persons: John Katzman, Richard Stallman, Jonas Blue, Marco Arment, Brian Behlendorf. The wide variety of quotes available makes it possible to find a quote to suit your needs. You’ve likely heard some of the Software Quotes before, but that’s because they truly are great.
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After graduation, I took a job with Manufacturers Hanover Trust in software development. I don’t think I was there more than a month.
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Free software is software that respects your freedom and the social solidarity of your community. So it’s free as in freedom.
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Software patents, in particular, are very ripe for abuse. The whole system encourages big corporations getting thousands and thousands of patents. Individuals almost never get them.
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There’s a strong distinction to be made between dry code smart contacts and wet code’s physical law. So law is based on our minds, our wetware – it’s based on analogy. The law is more flexible; software is more rigid. Various laws tend to be batched in jurisdictional silos. Software tends to be independent.
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Digital art software has empowered both the painterly side of photographers, and the photographer side of painters.
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So many commercial orgs have software where you can come and modify it, but they still control everything. And what’s controlled is very clearly what’s good for their business, or if they’re more progressive, their view of what’s good for the Internet.
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From day one our next generation system will run all our exsisting software – so that gives us a head start.
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On the back end, software programming tools and Internet-based services make it easy to launch new global software-powered start-ups in many industries – without the need to invest in new infrastructure and train new employees.
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I see three forces militating in favor of growing inequality: increasing measurement of worker value added, automation through smart software, and globalization.
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A lot of people who work on open-source software don’t mind making money elsewhere. They aren’t anticommercial.
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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.
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I’d like to make a fundamental impact on one of the most exciting, intelligent questions of all time. Can we use software and hardware to build intelligence into a machine? Can that machine help us solve cancer? Can that machine help us solve climate change?
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I have this hope that there is a better way. Higher-level tools that actually let you see the structure of the software more clearly will be of tremendous value.
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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.
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A lot of people don’t know how to pull themselves out of their rut and how to change realities. In technology, you routinely have an ‘upgrade‘ for your phones and computers. Our personal inner software needs upgrading too.
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As a rule, software systems do not work well until they have been used, and have failed repeatedly, in real applications.
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The most sought-after candidates in the world today by companies like mine are people who make computer software – there’s a shortage of talent.
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The methodologies and best practices used to develop software can be applied successfully to any challenge in life.
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Karma, memory, and desire are just the software of the soul. It’s conditioning that the soul undergoes in order to create experience. And it’s a cycle. In most people, the cycle is a conditioned response. They do the same things over and over again.
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I’m really good at making software for publishing.
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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.
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There is a strong movement towards increased accountability for software developers and software development organizations.
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Predation is part of the everyday life of capitalism, in sectors as mainstream as pharmaceuticals, software and oil – where people’s money, their data, their time and their attention are routinely taken in fundamentally asymmetrical exchanges.
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While I personally believe strongly in the philosophy and ideology of the Free Software movement, you can’t win people over just on philosophy; you have to have a better product, too.
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We are fortunate that there is a lot of demand on us to deliver our brand of interactive entertainment within the powerful franchises we have at Gearbox Software and the challenge for us is growing to meet this demand.
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Every new HubSpot employee has to go through training to learn how to use the software. That’s a good idea, and it also keeps me from having to worry about what I’m supposed to be doing here or why Cranium, who hired me, still has never come by to say hello or talk about what he wants me to work on.
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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.
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Bitcoin is a bank in cyberspace, run by incorruptible software, offereing a global, affordable, simple an dsecure savings account to billions of people that don’t have the option or desire to run their own hedge fund.
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The problem is, in software design, often the consequences of your decisions don’t become apparent for years.
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The reality of most software development is that the consequences of failure are simply nonexistent.
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One would expect that a surge of new automation opportunities in highly paid work would catalyze a surge of corporate investment in computer hardware and software. Instead, the opposite occurred.
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Interactive computers and software will, I think, provide a less costly method of doing some kinds of inquiry, in knowledge acquisition and even reasoning and interaction.
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Some computers have security software that make it impossible to hack into, and it’s the same with brains – some malfunction, and some, you can’t hack into them at all.
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We hope to get to the place where there are thousands of Peugeot cars on the road running nuTonomy software.
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We seem to be the only software company for girls that is pushing science and getting away from stereotypical behavior.
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The truth of Moore’s law has made remarkable things possible. On the software side, I think natural user interfaces in all their forms are equally significant.
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Any good software engineer will tell you that a compiler and an interpreter are interchangeable.
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Proprietary software is an injustice.
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Why don’t law firms use project management software to track where they are in the process of completing a deal and let customers see that?
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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.
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The best software companies in the world are the Indian companies like the Tatas, Infosys, and others.
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Yet, I am convinced that there is a need for high quality software, and the time will come when it will be recognized that it is worth investing effort in its development and in using a careful, structured approach based on safe, structured languages.
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Companies in every industry need to assume that a software revolution is coming.
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I want to see us remain convinced that software matters in the future.
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The shift in demand is toward partners that can improve productivity, and in part, that can be done by software.
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The methodologies and best practices used to develop software can be applied successfully to any challenge in life.
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To the game code, the world is still just a tile map, but for rendering, each map was exported as a general-purpose 3D model, and the artists could then go through it and spend the polygons any way they liked, without the limits of line-of-constant-z software rasterization that we lived with on the mobile phones.
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The i730 combines the familiarity of Windows Mobile software with the innovative design of Samsung that will be a popular choice for mobile professionals.
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Today’s leading real-world retailer, Wal-Mart, uses software to power its logistics and distribution capabilities, which it has used to crush its competition.
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Biology is the most powerful technology ever created. DNA is software, protein are hardware, cells are factories.
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I write and do all my arrangements on my Mac. And um, I use Logic Pro, which is a great software program.
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You really need to have a lot of empathy for the work you’re doing and the people who you’re ultimately trying to help, whether that’s a business colleague, a boss, or, ultimately, the user of the software you’re building.
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Just like the Internet has transformed the media industry or the e-commerce industry, the software industry is also being affected dramatically by the Internet.
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Simple genome engineering of bacteria and yeast is just the beginning of the rise of the true biohackers. This is a community of several thousand people, with skill sets ranging from self-taught software hackers to biology postdocs who are impatient with the structure of traditional institutional lab work.
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Once computers can program, they basically take over technological progress because already, today, the majority of technological progress is run by software, by programming.
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If you were a new guy at ILM, they put you on the night crew – my shift was from 7 P.M. to about 5 A.M. In my free time, I was working on an idea with my older brother, a software engineer getting his doctorate at the University of Michigan. Ultimately, it developed into Photoshop.
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Facial recognition software is already quite accurate in measuring unchanging and unique ratios between facial features that identify you as you. It’s like a fingerprint.
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It’s hardware that makes a machine fast. It’s software that makes a fast machine slow.
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I wouldn’t put a big trust in what people in Silicon Valley say. They may be good at manipulating ones and zeroes and writing software, but beyond that, their contribution to human progress has been pretty dismal. I’m not impressed.
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If you were a new guy at ILM, they put you on the night crew – my shift was from 7 P.M. to about 5 A.M. In my free time, I was working on an idea with my older brother, a software engineer getting his doctorate at the University of Michigan. Ultimately, it developed into Photoshop.
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As a rule, software systems do not work well until they have been used, and have failed repeatedly, in real applications.
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Certainly there’s a phenomenon around open source. You know free software will be a vibrant area. There will be a lot of neat things that get done there.
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As a person with the retentive mental capacity of a goldfish and a dislike of repetition, I frequently make use of the thesaurus built into my Microsoft Word U.K. Software.
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Technology can be part of a solution, but it takes far more than software to usher in reform.
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Paul Allen with Microsoft revolutionized the software industry.
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Corporations have been killing the risk-taking and exploration that makes software great. They have tried to rip the soul out of development.
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We are splintering what was the ‘camera’ and its functionality – lens, sensors, and processing – into distinct parts, but, instead of lenses and shutters, software and algorithms are becoming the driving force.
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Hubble wasn’t designed to look at objects in our solar system, but after it was launched, astronomers realized that with just a little bit of modification to the software, it could look at solar system objects.
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In almost every job now, people use software and work with information to enable their organisation to operate more effectively.
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People usually compare the computer to the head of the human being. I would say that hardware is the bone of the head, the skull. The semiconductor is the brain within the head. The software is the wisdom. And data is the knowledge.
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My best decision was to choose to go to Wall Street over law. I learned a lot and focused on the expanding software industry at a time when the independent software industry was just beginning.
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I took this ‘how to build computers’ course basically because I’m sick and tired of getting ripped off by cheesy computer companies. Software baffles me. I like hardware. I used to change my own oil, and now I want to build my own computer so I can have what I want.
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I tend to not discriminate when it comes to people I can learn from. Basically, if someone has built a meaningful business in software, technology or media, faced disruption and adversity, and overcame underdog status, I want to know how they did it.
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I don’t have a huge amount of gear, but on the software side, I have a number of plug-in chains that act as abstracted versions of real instruments.
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Within the coming years, disrupting the Bitcoin network will become increasingly more difficult as Bitcoin wallet software and the protocol become more mature and resilient.
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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.
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I think malware is a significant threat because the mitigation, like antivirus software, hasn’t evolved to a point to really mitigate the risk to a reasonable degree.
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If you want to do interesting software, you have to have a bunch of people do it, because the amount of software that one person can do isn’t that interesting.
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Software is like sex: it’s better when it’s free.
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There is a lot of interest in the arts, music, theatre, filmmaking, engineering, architecture and software design. I think we have now transitioned the modern-day version of the entrepreneur into the creative economy.
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I actually think the one who is underestimated in terms of impact he’s had on society is Bill Gates. The reason is that with the innovation of software, he really allowed the computer revolution to take hold.
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Automation is no longer just a problem for those working in manufacturing. Physical labor was replaced by robots; mental labor is going to be replaced by AI and software.
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I’m a common sense person who tries to analyze and I have to look at all sides of the issue because you don’t want software that only does something but doesn’t fix the other errors.
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Software is eating the financial services industry. We have a large addressable market for PayPal to play in.
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I think the Internet was invented specifically to stop people finishing their books. And it does quite a good job. I don’t have blocking software, though I could easily imagine needing it. I just don’t do that stuff until I’ve got the words done for the day.
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My ma is an economist. My dad is a software engineer.
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Education should not be about building more schools and maintaining a system that dates back to the Industrial Revolution. We can achieve so much more, at unmatched scale with software and interactive learning.
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The software program for motherhood is impossible to fully download into the male brain. You give them two tasks and they’re like, ‘I have to change the baby and get the dry cleaning?’
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I know one business, and that’s how to make software.
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Google is already overflowing with incredibly creative bright groups already working on lots of the software problems of the world.
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It seems like the web, particularly software as a service, provides ample opportunities for you to flourish economically, completely aligned with the broader open source community.
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Bitcoin is a bank in cyberspace, run by incorruptible software, offereing a global, affordable, simple an dsecure savings account to billions of people that don’t have the option or desire to run their own hedge fund.
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Yes, we are a producer of cameras, but we understand that at the end of the day, you have to make photos in software. A lot of companies focus on the camera side, and a lot are on the software side. There’s a chasm between the two.
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Using the Internet to secure employment is as vital to a construction worker as it is to a software engineer.
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The reason why Apple computers have worked so well over time is that, unlike Microsoft, they don’t bend over backward to be compatible with every piece of hardware or software in the digital universe. To code or create for Apple, you follow Apple’s rules. If you’re even allowed to.
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The way to be successful in the software world is to come up with breakthrough software, and so whether it’s Microsoft Office or Windows, its pushing that forward. New ideas, surprising the marketplace, so good engineering and good business are one in the same.
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The only real mystery in the stories of political plagiarism is its durability in an age of Turnitin and other scanning software that can protect an author from his own mistakes, intentional or otherwise.
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At heart, human beings are what we may call ‘generalists,’ who have the ability to adapt their internal ‘software programs’ to different habitats or situations.
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Computers themselves, and software yet to be developed, will revolutionize the way we learn.
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Governments are scared of software.
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The process of software development doesn’t feel any better than it did a generation ago.
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The future art historians are going to be software guys who are going to go into the depths of the code to find out what was changed hundreds of years before.
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I think India has several advantages in the knowledge sector, in the software sector.
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The software patent problem is not limited to Mono. Software patents affect everyone writing software today.
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This paradox of vision – the genius of youthful ignorance – is nothing new. Had Bill Gates not been in diapers in the early days of computer software, he might have understood that there could never be a market for consumer software – but the 19-year-old Gates went ahead and cofounded Microsoft.
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When it comes to music, movies, literature, paintings, and even Bikram yoga, it’s pretty easy to have an opinion about whether something has been copied. Software, on the other hand, was an awkward late addition to the original Copyright Act of 1976, shoehorned into section 102(a) as a ‘literary work.’
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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.
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All software sucks.
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Defect-free software does not exist.
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Right at the start, when I was about 13 or 14, I only had an Amiga 500 Plus running a bit of tracker software called OctaMED. My brother was big into his computers, and when he moved up to a proper PC, I took charge of the Amiga.
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Many composers use software to write music – programs like Finale or Sibelius. There are also recording programs. I should say I’m still very old-fashioned, I still use pencil and paper. But almost every composer I know does it the ‘new way.’
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India has a large base of tech talent, and I hope that a lot of AI machine learning education online will allow Indian software professionals to break into AI.
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Software is eating the world, but AI is going to eat software.
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The critical thing in developing software is not the program, it’s the design. It is translating understanding of user needs into something that can be realized as a computer program.
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I think Nintendo is fortunate, having been in this business for over 30 years, to really understand the dynamics and recognize that it’s software that drives hardware, and it’s new, unique, compelling experiences within software that make it stand out.
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When I was, like, 16, I had, like, my first, like, bit of software and stuff. So then I started, like, making music and all that.
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From the beginning, the Mac has been about Apple taking responsibility for the whole thing: hardware, software, how applications can work, and, increasingly, Internet services.
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If you think about all the light that enters – that enters the lens of a camera, that’s much more than a photo. The light field is all the higher-dimensional information that’s lost in a regular photo. When we record all this information, that provides us the opportunity in software after the fact.
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In software, it’s easy to understand what people want, and it’s hard to build. Internet stuff is super easy to build, but it’s hard to know what people want.
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Defect-free software does not exist.
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I buy lots of my software over the net from the States.
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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.
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The payoff of a customer-centric approach to software and digital product design is substantial and long-lasting for both companies and their customers.
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Within the coming years, disrupting the Bitcoin network will become increasingly more difficult as Bitcoin wallet software and the protocol become more mature and resilient.
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In short, software is eating the world.
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In our firm‘s earliest days, our understanding of the power of great software engineering and quantitative analytics helped Citadel stand out.
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I wanted to solve every real estate problem with software.
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So Viaan Industries Ltd has three verticals; one is licensing and technology which concentrates on Fintech and licensing various products and creating IPs in the country in the software fintech space.
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I interned at NASA for five years, and I grew up in Cape Canaveral, and my grandfather was an engineer on the Mercury capsule, and my grandmother was a software engineer. I literally grew up playing on the Mercury capsule prototypes.
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Easytrak is no guarantee against mismanagement. But you cannot manage a large program without software like it today. It is a project information management system that helps people develop a solution to a problem with many parts to track.
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It gives you great pleasure to know that millions of developers, day to day, make their living using the software that you created.
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Software is the language of automation.
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I majored in Computer Science at U.C. Berkeley and worked as a software developer for a couple of years. Then I taught high school computer science for over a decade and a half in Oakland, California.
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Microsoft Research has a thing called the Sense Cam that, as you walk around, it’s taking photos all the time. And the software will filter and find the ones that are interesting without having to think, ‘Let’s get out the camera and get that shot.’ You just have that, and software helps you pick what you want.
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If Unix could present the same face, the same capabilities, on machines of many different types, it could serve as a common software environment for all of them.
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We developed our product called Dashboard, which was a software tool that was designed to be a virtual campaign office to help volunteers communicate and collaborate through emails and interacting online. It was our attempt to take an offline field office and merge it online.
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Is it possible that software is not like anything else, that it is meant to be discarded: that the whole point is to always see it as a soap bubble?
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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.
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I think there are opportunities outside India as well as in India. In fact, some of the largest projects that most Indian software companies are doing are in India.
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Making sounds that literally no one has ever heard before because the software and the technology’s never been there, and pairing that with great songwriting, then that’s what’s exciting for me. That’s what I wanna do.
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I think, fundamentally, open source does tend to be more stable software. It’s the right way to do things.
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Like any well designed software product, Windows is designed, developed and tested as an integrated whole.
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Computers have become more friendly, understandable, and lots of years and thought have been put into developing software to convince people that they want and need a computer.
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As someone who was basically a software engineer for many years, I became fascinated with how the brain functions and is put together and works in such a different fashion than computers do.
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Well, user feedback was excellent. Even when the software didn’t work at all, there were few people who were avid users, and there were people who were just sending excellent feedback and excellent ideas.
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I found out that most programmers don’t like to test their software as intensely as I do.
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Open source production has shown us that world-class software, like Linux and Mozilla, can be created with neither the bureaucratic structure of the firm nor the incentives of the marketplace as we’ve known them.
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My Ph.D. is in computer vision and machine learning. I developed software that can read your emotions from your face as part of my doctorate work.
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Although the most advanced software innovation may take place in big cities with research universities, there is a lot of work concerning the application of software to business processes and the administration and maintenance of software systems that can be done remotely.
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Proprietary software grew up, starting really in the 1980s, as an alternative and that became the dominant model with the rise of companies like Microsoft and Oracle and the like.
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Oracle is my second job ever that did not involve waitressing. But I still have my waitress apron just in case this does not work out. It’s just that I fell in love with software when I was programming in college. When I was an investment banker, there were mostly mainframe companies and very few software ones.
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You know, IBM was almost knocked out of the box by other types of computer software and manufacturing.
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From the late ’70s to the early ’90s, I wrote anything anybody would pay me for. This ranged from articles on how to clean a longhorn cow‘s skull for living-room decoration to manuals on elementary math instruction on the Apple II… to a slew of software reviews and application articles done for the computer press.
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We at Interscope put projects out with anyone we believe has a great idea and is a true talent, whether it’s a musician, photographer, software developer, or technology innovator.
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Software is eating the world, but AI is going to eat software.
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Limit use of shareware and public domain software to systems without fixed disks. If you do use them on fixed disks, allocate separate subdirectories… Public domain or shareware software should never be placed in the root directory.
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Be careful about virtual relationships with artificially intelligent pieces of software.
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In software and many other online markets, even dominant firms face potential threats because of the low costs for competitors to enter those markets. Threats more easily emerge because of better or newer technologies leapfrogging older ones.
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We support about 5,000 non-governmental organizations (NGOs) with software, training, and technical support. We provide our software at virtually no cost to them, and they’re lighting up the world with what they do.
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Free software is software that respects your freedom and the social solidarity of your community. So it’s free as in freedom.
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Making sounds that literally no one has ever heard before because the software and the technology’s never been there, and pairing that with great songwriting, then that’s what’s exciting for me. That’s what I wanna do.
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My background isn’t in social software; it’s in online community, social networks, personal publishing, blogging, self-expression on the Web. I got on the Internet in the 1980s, and the magic moment for me arose from my being a literature geek, especially Dante and Shakespeare.
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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.
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Originally, I was in both software and in online computing. The first innovation really was sort of at that time that we’re marrying the telephone and the computer so that people wouldn’t have to drive to the computer center. We didn’t have $1,000 computers.
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The way to be successful in the software world is to come up with breakthrough software, and so whether it’s Microsoft Office or Windows, its pushing that forward. New ideas, surprising the marketplace, so good engineering and good business are one in the same.
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It is interesting to come across people who feel that a ghost communicating via a spell-checker is less far-fetched than a software glitch.
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You can’t start a product simply by building it. You have to know why you’re building it, and you might go down the wrong rabbit hole, waste time, and confuse things. Spending long afternoons with a sketchbook or talking through your ideas with other people can save a year in software development later on.
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A lot of good movies produced well can be distributed or marketed badly. Of course, a lot of bad movies marketed well can also fail badly. But we want to be in charge of the value chain. And for this we have to be in software production, distribution, and broadcasting.
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I concluded that I know how to start and grow software companies. The worthwhile thing I could do was create livelihoods for people.
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Life is a DNA software system.
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Writing software is a very intense, very personal thing. You have to have time to work your way through it, to understand it. Then debug it.
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When we launched the first version of Basecamp in 2004, we decided to build software for small companies just like us.
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The software industry has to become better in componentization. That’s a clear focus for most of the software companies. How components look, how they are maintained, the ability to maintain them separately.
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Most software today is very much like an Egyptian pyramid with millions of bricks piled on top of each other, with no structural integrity, but just done by brute force and thousands of slaves.
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I don’t naturally have the body language of a software guy.
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This idea you’re going to take a 50-year-old coal miner and turn them into a software engineer is ridiculous.
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I wouldn’t put a big trust in what people in Silicon Valley say. They may be good at manipulating ones and zeroes and writing software, but beyond that, their contribution to human progress has been pretty dismal. I’m not impressed.
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One of the problems with computers, particularly for the older people, is they were befuddled by them, and the computers have gotten better. They have gotten easier to use. They have gotten less expensive. The software interfaces have made things a lot more accessible.
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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.
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At Sussex University, I developed a system called WinLocX to help with the process of translating software into foreign languages.
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For many people my software is something that you install and forget. I like to keep it that way.
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When people think of the oil industry, they think of Rockefeller, much like when people think of the software industry, they think of Bill Gates.
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I made my money with software – encoded knowledge without which few products and services can exist today – and so it seemed imperative that this would be the field where I would give something back.
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The 1980s will seem like a walk in the park when compared to new global challenges, where annual productivity increases of 6% may not be enough. A combination of software, brains, and running harder will be needed to bring that percentage up to 8% or 9%.
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There is no neat distinction between operating system software and the software that runs on top of it.
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The way to really scale a venture firm is with software.
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The thing is, there are so many different ways to make music these days with virtual instruments, software applications, physical instruments, and computer programs.
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IT put India on the map of the world and told Indians that they are somebody in the world. There is something about technology that is very empowering: ‘We are designing software for the best companies in the world.’
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I had a great career selling software.
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In software design, it’s all about making a guess, trying it, and then learning from the experience.
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I have absolutely no idea about space exploration. I’m a software guy. But because I’m a non-expert, I’ve been able to bring the software concept of modularity into the space sector, which was never done before.
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When I was working in Bangalore, short film making was fun – almost like a weekend getaway for me and my friends from the software industry.
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I’m kind of a retired software engineer. I don’t write code anymore.
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We’re systems software people ourselves. We wanted a language to make our lives better.
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Unlike 4G and previous generations of technology, 5G is very different. It is not just about radio. In fact, it stands across the full network from mobile access to cloud core, from software-defined networking to all forms of backhaul, front haul, IP routing, fixed networks, software, and more.
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Technology no longer consists just of hardware or software or even services, but of communities. Increasingly, community is a part of technology, a driver of technology, and an emergent effect of technology.
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First, we want to have a direct relationship with our customers wherever we can. On open platforms like PC and Android, it’s possible for them to get the software direct from us. We can be in contact with them and not have a third-party distributor in between.
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Software Engineering might be science; but that’s not what I do. I’m a hacker, not an engineer.
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In a previous life I wrote the software that controlled my physics experiments. That software had to deal with all kinds of possible failures in equipment. That is probably where I learned to rely on multiple safety nets inside and around my systems.
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We are focusing on four vertical markets – utilities, public sector, large enterprises, and transportation. And, we are building a software business as well that includes analytics, security, IOT platforms, and AI.
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When people think of the oil industry, they think of Rockefeller, much like when people think of the software industry, they think of Bill Gates.
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There are two methods in software design. One is to make the program so simple, there are obviously no errors. The other is to make it so complicated, there are no obvious errors.
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I discovered shooting and filmmaking around the time all of the software became affordable to anyone with a PC.
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People who are really serious about software should make their own hardware.
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It’s hardware that makes a machine fast. It’s software that makes a fast machine slow.
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In open-source in general, the power lies in connecting the author of the software directly to users, eliminating the middleman.
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People are looking for software development that actually does something useful… People are looking for partners who deliver when promised, and at a reasonable and transparent price. I believe that the days of being able to value price software are numbered.
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We have a choice in Silicon Valley. We can either continue to exist as an island to ourselves, focused on wealth creation and innovation… or we can understand that we are in the middle of a software revolution and answer the nation‘s call to provide economic opportunity and technology to places left behind.
