Top 1200 Software Company Quotes & Sayings - Page 16

Give me but a little cheerful company, let me only have the company of the people I love, let me only be where I like and with whom I like, and the devil may take the rest, say I.

Designful companies are those that weave design thinking into the fabric of the company. In a designful company, innovation is rewarded instead of punished. Risk taking is the norm instead of the exception. Some companies have already embraced this type of culture change with impressive results.

You know, IBM was almost knocked out of the box by other types of computer software and manufacturing.

If you're CEO of a company, you have to be a public person. You're speaking to the press, you're speaking to investors, you're speaking to employees, you're the public face of the company and so kind of naturally you become more extroverted, more outwards facing.

We have signed an exclusive licensing agreement with a company called TurnerPatterson, another African-American company, and what I thought would be a great vehicle for 'Ebony,' since it is such a strong brand name with tremendous loyalty, is to grow that brand name even more across different areas.

Google is already overflowing with incredibly creative bright groups already working on lots of the software problems of the world.

You don't start a company because you want to be an entrepreneur or the fame and glory that comes along with it. You become an entrepreneur, and you create a company to solve a real problem. And by real problem, I mean a problem that is going to exist down the line.

Every piece of software written today is likely going to infringe on someone else's patent.

A goal of Twitch is to be wherever gamers are, whether it's on laptops and handheld devices or integrated into gaming consoles and software.

More software projects have gone awry for lack of calendar time than for all other causes combined.

Since your company is the product that makes all of your other products, it should be the best product of all. When you begin to think of your company this way, you evaluate it differently. You ask different questions about it. You look at improving it constantly, rather than just accepting what it's become.

The days when you needed amazing Silicon Graphics machines to run animation software are gone now.

I got a degree in math, from not a good school in Texas, and then I went to work as a software engineer. Just not glamorous at all.

In computers, every 'new explosion' was set off by a software product that allowed users to program differently.

There is this thing called the GPL (Gnu Public Licence), which we disagree with... nobody can ever improve the software.

If you work at a 10,000-person company, and you're using e-mail as the primary means of communication, then you probably have access to a couple hundredths of 1 percent of all the communications happening across the company. But if you use Slack, you might have access to 10 or 20 percent.

I'm always surprised at how many people seem to like reading about what hardware and software I use.

I think managers have realized that most software people are slightly brain damaged, that they're off on their own planets.

At Sussex University, I developed a system called WinLocX to help with the process of translating software into foreign languages.

Consciousness, like a complex system of software, has thousands of levels of nested, self-accessing subroutines

If I had gone to a big company, it would have been very difficult for me to do research freely. At a big company, say Sony, there are very, very good researchers. So I would have to ask them what I could do.

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

I wanted to grow in terms of making pictures, not adapting to new software and technology. But that's the game now.

Most of the largest software companies in the world today are based on Oracle, and they were once startups.

So we do software for watches, for phones, for TV sets, for cars. And some of these take a long time to catch on.

Tip: Take the stodgiest, oldest, slowest moving industry you can find. And build amazing software for it.

I ended up working in Michigan for a young company called Sycor out of Michigan, worked there, and that company got bought by Northern Telecom. We became the Bell Northern Research Labs of Northern Telecom.

You need to ask yourself, ‘Where do you want to work: startups, mid-size or large companies?’ If you find yourself debating the ‘startup versus large company’ choice you’ve already chosen the big company. Entrepreneurship isn’t a career choice it’s a passion and obsession.

Remember that in 1993 a company with a bad Web site needed an engineer. Today, a company with a bad Web site needs a psychiatrist.

One of the biggest problems that software developers face is that technology changes rapidly. It is very hard to stay current.

I feel that the best companies are started not because the founder wanted a company but because the founder wanted to change the world... If you decide you want to found a company, you maybe start to develop your first idea. And hire lots of workers.

Once your company grows past a certain point, upholding values becomes more and more difficult. This is where companies get into trouble. Thus, it's absolutely critical to take your company values seriously and practice it every day.

If we built houses the way we build software, the first woodpecker to come along would destroy civilization.

The Cinquecento was an engine of motivation at Fiat. It refurbished the image of the entire company. It's a symbol for the company, but it's more than that. It's a global Italian symbol, as Mini is a global British symbol and the Beetle is a global German symbol.

If you work at an insurance company that sells premiums you wouldn't even sell to your mother, how happy would you feel to work there? It's going to eat you up. It might last a few years, but it doesn't attract the best people, and it certainly doesn't create the energy and engagement you need to be a long-term performing company.

In open-source in general, the power lies in connecting the author of the software directly to users, eliminating the middleman.

The business model piece is we're always talking about competing more effectively. If you're starting a company or career you don't want to compete. You want to create a monopoly. We want to invest in a company that has a good plan to create a monopoly.

My goal was never to just create a company. A lot of people misinterpret that, as if I don't care about revenue or profit or any of those things. But what not being just a company means to me is not being just that - building something that actually makes a really big change in the world.

I'm a victim of Developaralysis: the crippling sense that the software industry is evolving so fast that no one person can possibly keep up.

Good developers like seeing their products sell in large quantities. They enjoy the competition of doing a better job than the other company, especially if the other company has more people on the project and they're entrenched and people are saying that we don't have a chance of getting in there and... and doing well.

The only people who have anything to fear from free software are those whose products are worth even less.

I think, fundamentally, open source does tend to be more stable software. It's the right way to do things.

The whole concept of data science is that the software becomes the expert, and you, as the average user, are able to understand what's going on.

Back in my day, I would probe by hand. Now you can get commercial software that does the job for you.

Anytime you put a challenge out there, people come up with a creative solution on the software side.

Our civilization depends critically on software, and we have a dangerously low degree of professionalism in the computer fields

I'm from the school that great performers and great leaders create more great leaders. Give people other experiences, other responsibilities. Have them join organizations within the company and outside the company.

Software is becoming no different than a videotape or a record album or a paperback book, and not all of us are ready for that change.

The most important thing was the creation of a... a standard, where hundreds of companies build hardware that can all run the same software.

Every actor has a production company already. It's just a matter of producing your own films under the label of your own production company.

As a rule, software systems do not work well until they have been used, and have failed repeatedly, in real applications.

Preemption is not about the Essure women - it affects all consumers. If someone had a medical device installed, there's no recourse for victims, and the company is protected. If there's a problem, the company gets a pass because they have preemption. It dawned on me the consumer didn't know. The women didn't know that this existed.

When you buy enough stocks to give you control of a target company, that's called mergers and acquisitions or corporate raiding. Hedge funds have been doing this, as well as corporate financial managers. With borrowed money you can take over or raid a foreign company too. So, you're having a monopolistic consolidation process that's pushed up the market, because in order to buy a company or arrange a merger, you have to offer more than the going stock-market price. You have to convince existing holders of a stock to sell out to you by paying them more than they'd otherwise get.

My dream was to set up my own e-commerce company. In 1999, I gathered 18 people in my apartment and spoke to them for two hours about my vision. Everyone put their money on the table, and that got us $60,000 to start Alibaba. I wanted to have a global company, so I chose a global name.

Yahoo is free, it's fast and it's Web-centric. AOL is slow, it costs money and requires proprietary software.

I got bitten by the free software bug in February of 1998 around the time of the Mozilla announcement.

A lot of people who work on open-source software don't mind making money elsewhere. They aren't anticommercial.

A goal of Twitch is to be wherever gamers are, whether its on laptops and handheld devices or integrated into gaming consoles and software.

In a startup car company, everything you do has to be done in a different way than a traditional car company. And the main reason is that all of these big car companies are operating like giant well-oiled machines - you could put a very seasoned executive in, and all he has to do is make sure the machine keeps running.

I develop artificially intelligent technologies, along with educational and game software and let the business people take it where they will.