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Software gets slower faster than hardware gets faster.

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Niklaus Wirth
Swiss - Scientist
Born: February 15, 1934

Software gets slower faster than hardware gets faster. (Or, sometimes known by] Grove [the head of Intel] giveth and Gates [the head of Microsoft] taketh away.)

Niklaus Wirth

Software is getting slower more rapidly than hardware becomes faster.

Niklaus Wirth

When I was at Tek, I was frustrated that computer hardware was being improved faster than computer software. I wanted to invent some software that was completely different, that would grow and change as it was used. That's how wiki came about.

Ward Cunningham

If anything, there's a reverse Moore's Law observable in software: As processors become faster and memory becomes cheaper, software becomes correspondingly slower and more bloated, using up all available resources.

Jaron Lanier

My life feels like a book left out on the porch, and the wind blows the pages faster and faster, turning always toward a new chapter faster than I can stop to read it.

Nancy E. Turner

Nothing gets you behind faster than trying to keep up with people who are already there.

Washington Allston

I think in most cases, if you're with good people, comedy creation happens faster in collaboration. That's how I can tell if it's a good collaboration: If it's faster than me by myself, then it works. If it's slower than me by myself, then I get out of the room.

Harry Shearer

Simple messages travel faster, simpler designs reach the market faster and the elimination of clutter allows faster decision making.

Jack Welch

Slow motion gets you there faster.

Hoagy Carmichael

High-quality software is not expensive. High-quality software is faster and cheaper to build and maintain than low-quality software, from initial development all the way through total cost of ownership.

Capers Jones

The years went by, and Mary Alice and I grew up, Slower than we wanted to, faster than we realized.

Richard Peck

To me, it looks more or less like the hardware designers have run out of ideas and that they're trying to pass the blame for the future demise of Moore's Law to the software writers by giving us machines that work faster only on a few key benchmarks!

Donald Knuth

Have you ever noticed that anybody driving slower than you is an idiot, and anyone going faster than you is a maniac?

George Carlin

It never gets easier; you just go faster.

Greg LeMond

Tumblr gets better faster with more resources to draw from.

David Karp

What gets posted online is not short term, and is open for easy misinterpretation. Messages and pictures spread faster through the Internet than they ever could by word of mouth.

Anna Maria Chavez

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