Top 1200 Software Development Quotes & Sayings - Page 12

Android is a major step towards an ethical, user-controlled, free-software portable phone, but there is a long way to go.

All the reasons that have made software so successful are beginning to happen with hardware. So much can be done so quickly, prototyped so rapidly, and the costs are so low.

This idea you're going to take a 50-year-old coal miner and turn them into a software engineer is ridiculous.

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.

For a business plan written when the hardware was a wire-wrapped board and the software was three demos on a graphics substrate, it was pretty close.

Indeed one of the best ways to deflect attacks is to make it look like they're succeeding. It's the software equivalent of playing dead.

Singers who are dependent on digital audio pitch correction software cannot last more than two-three songs.

When we launched the first version of Basecamp in 2004, we decided to build software for small companies just like us.

Play is the highest expression of human development in childhood for it alone is the free expression of what is in a childs soul.”• “Play is the highest level of child development . . . It gives . . . joy, freedom, contentment, inner and outer rest, peace with the world . . . The plays of childhood are the germinal leaves of all later life.”• “Children are like tiny flowers; they are varied and need care, but each is beautiful alone and glorious when seen in the community of peers.

Most development doesn't make it to series. So you want the writer and director to have a really good experience with development because, if it doesn't work out, you want to work with them again. You have to know their work really well, know the drafts really well, and when you give notes, you need to have really thought them through.

Ripple is focused on enabling a global network of financial institutions to use our software to create what we call the Internet of Value.

When it became clear that I wasn't going to have the opportunity to do any work on VR while at id software, I decided to not renew my contract.

For whatever reason somebody can be convinced to buy a PC, it opens up a whole new market for all of us in the software business.

Releasing Linux versions has always been a matter of higher code quality, good software architecture, and technical interest for the platform.

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.

Listen to your customers, but don't always build exactly what they're telling you. This is a really key distinction around building enterprise software.

When we shipped 'Borderlands 2,' we didn't ship it with a plan of how the level cap was going to increase. We didn't have any software built or strategy in place.

Pharmacogenomics holds great promise to shed scientific light on the often risky and costly process of drug development, and to provide greater confidence about the risks and benefits of drugs in specific populations. Pharmacogenomics is a new field, but we intend to do all we can to use it to promote the development of medicines. By providing practical guidance on how to turn the explosion of pharmacogenomic information into real evidence on new drugs, we are taking an important step toward that goal.

It's clear that other problems such as [...] the domination of business over government, science, thought, and society, are much bigger than non-free software.

Australia is a very healthy country which goes along with the fact that it's very high on the Human Development Index, high wealth, good levels of education. So Australia ranks right up there, second or third on the Human Development Index. And Indigenous Australians, if you treated them as if they were a separate country, would rank probably about 100th or below 100.

Epic has prided itself on providing software directly to customers ever since I started mailing floppy disks in 1991.

By trade, I am a software programmer, so I never really had any experience with movies before. I started out with 'Paranormal Activity.'

I've been a software engineer, a novelist, a journalist, and a manager - and managing developers is easily the trickiest thing I've ever done.

If you use a proprietary program or somebody else's web server, you're defenceless. You're putty in the hands of whoever developed that software.

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?

I always knew I wanted to be an entrepreneur. I started my own software company in high school and went to college to study entrepreneurship.

To most Christians, the Bible is like a software license. Nobody actually reads it. They just scroll to the bottom and click 'I Agree'.

Software tends not to kill people, and so we accept incredibly fast innovation loops because the consequences are tolerable and the results are astonishing.

Our goal in education should be to foster the ability to use the computer in everything you do, even if you don't have a specific piece of software for the job.

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.

Many casinos in the United States already use facial recognition software to identify undesirables, apparently with a fair degree of success.

Personalization is the automatic tailoring of sites and messages to the individuals viewing them, so that we can feel that somewhere there's a piece of software that loves us for who we are.

Requirement completeness: Requirements are sufficient to distinguish the desired behavior of the software from that of any other undesired program that might be designed. .

I have not seen anyone assume that all the citizens of New York are guilty of murder, violence, robbery, perjury, or writing proprietary software.

Once GNU is written, everyone will be able to obtain good system software free, just like air.

If you love a medium made of software, there's a danger that you will become entrapped in someone else's recent careless thoughts. Struggle against that.

In almost every job now, people use software and work with information to enable their organisation to operate more effectively.

What we believe is going to be very important is the delivery of traditional software and services and hardware over the Net. That's a form of electronic marketplace.

When it comes to e-book playback devices and software, I have always thought that the emphasis on ergonomic concerns as a tipping point for the end-user population was misplaced.

In almost every job now, people use software and work with information to enable their organization to operate more effectively.

Software is like gardening - one day I'll go behind the shed and clean up. But if nobody ever goes there, does it matter a lot?

There's only four things we do better than anyone else: music movies microcode (software) high-speed pizza delivery

The hardware and the software used in the Breakthrough project will be compatible with other telescopes around the world, so they too can search for intelligent life.

Photo management software is terrible. Mylio is pretty good - but disrupts the 'natural' flow of things: i.e. Apple Photos.

Most software has a tiny essence that justifies its existence, everything after that is wants and desires mistaken for needs and necessities.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Besides, all evil is relative. Something that is evil at one level of evolution can be good at an earlier stage because it provides the essential stimulus for development. But you want to judge everything by your own standards. You have reached a comparatively high level and so you see what you fight against as evil. Just think of the others, those who are at an earlier stage of development. Do not bar them from the path toward progress and evolution.

I do read licenses, and they aggravate me, but a computer isn't much good without software. When I need a product, I hold my nose and click 'agree.'

Free open-source software, by its nature, is unlikely to feature secret back doors that lead directly to Langley, Va.

All the songs were written on guitar and then put into the computer, where I played around with different sounds I was hearing and what was available in the software.

No one should expect building a new high-growth, software-powered company in an established industry to be easy. It's brutally difficult.

Einstein repeatedly argued that there must be simplified explanations of nature, because God is not capricious or arbitrary. No such faith comforts the software engineer.

I wrote a lot of software to do various kinds of special things, and I loved the idea of composing pieces in an electronic studio.

In a biological system, the software builds its own hardware, but design is critical, and if you start with digital information, it has to be really accurate.

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.

The payoff of a customer-centric approach to software and digital product design is substantial and long-lasting for both companies and their customers.

You can drive a car by looking in the rear view mirror as long as nothing is ahead of you. Not enough software professionals are engaged in forward thinking.