Top 1200 Software Development Quotes & Sayings - Page 11

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

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.

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

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

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 suddenness of the leap from hardware to software cannot but produce a period of anarchy and collapse, especially in the developed countries.

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

If you want to write the software to control the national medical system of a large country, Java is perfect.

'Sustainable Development' is an oxymoron. 'Development' in all it's senses entails expansion and wanting more. Continual expansion and wanting more are unsustainable. Globally we are approaching the point when the only sustainable way forward is to want less. Indeed, the choice element may be removed from us and we will just have to have less. In the meantime we still have some choices about how to influence our future

At each stage of development the child needs different resources from the family. During the first year, a variety of experience and the availability of the parents for attachment are primary. During the second and third years, stimulation of language development is critical. During the years prior to school entrance, information that persuades children they are loved becomes critical, and during the school years it is important for children to believe that they can succeed at the tasks they want to master.

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

I write and do all my arrangements on my Mac. And um, I use Logic Pro, which is a great software program.

A primary cause of complexity is that software vendors uncritically adopt almost any feature that users want.

Developer testing is an important step towards accountability. It gives developers a way to demonstrate the quality of the software they produce.

While Microsoft does not share all of Oracle's ambitions for Java, we agree that it is a very valuable tool for software developers.

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

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

Capitalism is a development by refinement from feudalism, just as feudalism is development by refinement from slavery . Capitalism is but the gentlemen's method of slavery.

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?

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

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.

I basically got an education in software on DuPont's money because they were too stubborn to admit that a recession was coming.

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

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

Those who write software only for pay should go hurt some other field.

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

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

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

We raised the matter of an agreement that was reached at the Growth and Development Summit, which was that we should access a certain part, 5% was mentioned, of the funds in the hands of the institutional investors, domestically, for investment in the real economy. That being an agreement of the Growth and Development Summit, we will engage South African business to see how we can make that a practical thing. So, there is a different set of engagement with local business.

I like my flight sims because I can set up a very robust joystick setup and my head tracking software.

Cooperation is just like two pagodas - one hardware and one software. Combined, we can take the leadership position in the world.

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.

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

Biology is the most powerful technology ever created. DNA is software, protein are hardware, cells are factories.

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.

I'm not saying we purposely introduced bugs or anything, but this is kind of a natural result of any complexities of software... that you can't fully test it.

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

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

I concluded that I know how to start and grow software companies. The worthwhile thing I could do was create livelihoods for people.

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

I don't think I've ever seen a piece of commercial software where the next version is simpler rather than more complex.

Paul and I, we never thought that we would make much money out of the thing. We just loved writing software.

Software is like entropy. It is difficult to grasp, weighs nothing, and obeys the second law of thermodynamics; i.e. it always increases.

A geek is a guy who has everything going for him but he's just too young. He's got the software but he doesn't have the hardware yet.

Writing system software is like planning a family.If you make a mistake you have to live with it for 20 years.

Poor management can increase software costs more rapidly than any other factor.

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

It is only by demanding the impossible of the piano that you can obtain from it all that is possible. For the psychologist this means that imagination and desire are ahead of the possible reality. A deaf Beethoven created for the piano sounds never heard before and thus predetermined the development of the piano for several decades to come. The composer's creative spirit imposes on the piano rules to which it gradually conforms. That is the history of the instrument's development. I don't know of any case where the reverse occurred.

So what I was essentially doing was, I compromised the confidentiality of their proprietary software to advance my agenda of becoming the best at breaking through the lock.

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

A typical software project can present more opportunities to learn from mistakes than some people get in a lifetime.

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

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

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

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

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

The methodologies and best practices used to develop software can be applied successfully to any challenge in life.

The problem is not software 'friendliness'. It is conceptual clarity. A globe does not say, 'good morning'. It is simple and clear, not 'friendly'.

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

In the next 10 years, data science and software will do more for medicine than all of the biological sciences together.