Software Quotes

Computers themselves, and software yet to be developed, will revolutionize the way we learn.
Steve Jobs

Computers, Learn, Themselves

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

Long, Everything, Understand

Since when has the world of computer software design been about what people want? This is a simple question of evolution. The day is quickly coming when every knee will bow down to a silicon fist, and you will all beg your binary gods for mercy.
Bill Gates

Design, Simple, Down

Software is like sex: it's better when it's free.
Linus Torvalds

Whether it's Google or Apple or free software, we've got some fantastic competitors and it keeps us on our toes.
Bill Gates

Free, Whether, Fantastic

I'm sorry that we have to have a Washington presence. We thrived during our first 16 years without any of this. I never made a political visit to Washington and we had no people here. It wasn't on our radar screen. We were just making great software.
Bill Gates

Great, Sorry, Political

People who are really serious about software should make their own hardware.
Alan Kay

Serious, Hardware

The only thing I understand deeply, because in my teens I was thinking about it, and every year of my life, is software. So I'll never be hands-on on anything except software.
Bill Gates

Life, Thinking, Understand

Maintaining a consistent platform also helps improve product support - a significant problem in the software industry.
Bill Gates

Problem, Support, Industry

I was lucky to be involved and get to contribute to something that was important, which is empowering people with software.
Bill Gates

Important, Lucky, Involved

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

Rude, Write, Decided

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.
Alan Kay

Today, Integrity, Done

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

Makes, Fast, Machine

Software constraints are only confining if you use them for what they're intended to be used for.
David Byrne

Used, Confining, Intended

Defect-free software does not exist.
Wietse Venema

Qualified software engineers, managers, marketers and salespeople in Silicon Valley can rack up dozens of high-paying, high-upside job offers any time they want, while national unemployment and underemployment is sky high.
Marc Andreessen

Time, Job, While

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.
Marc Andreessen

Power, Today, Used

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%.
Jack Welch

May, Enough, Walk

In software systems it is often the early bird that makes the worm.
Alan Perlis

Often, Makes, Bird

Why shouldn't we give our teachers a license to obtain software, all software, any software, for nothing? Does anyone demand a licensing fee, each time a child is taught the alphabet?
William Gibson

Time, Nothing, Give

More and more major businesses and industries are being run on software and delivered as online services - from movies to agriculture to national defense.
Marc Andreessen

Movies, Run, National

In short, software is eating the world.
Marc Andreessen

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

Economic, Economy, Large

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

Next, Expect, Valley

The days when a car aficionado could repair his or her own car are long past, due primarily to the high software content.
Marc Andreessen

Car, Past, Long

Companies in every industry need to assume that a software revolution is coming.
Marc Andreessen

Revolution, Coming, Industry

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.
Marc Andreessen

End, Easy, Train

Perhaps the single most dramatic example of this phenomenon of software eating a traditional business is the suicide of Borders and corresponding rise of Amazon.
Marc Andreessen

Business, Single, Rise

There is a constant need for new systems and new software.
Marc Andreessen

Constant, Systems

TV and the press have always functioned according to the same sets of rules and technical standards. But the Internet is based on software. And anybody can write a new piece of software on the Internet that years later a billion people are using.
Marc Andreessen

Same, Write, Rules

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