(1398 quotes found)
“The vision is really that in the information age the microprocessor-based machine, the PC, along with great software, can become sort of the ultimate tool dealing with not just text, but numbers and pictures, and eventually, even difficult things lik”
Bill Gates
“A world community can only exist with world communication, which means something more than extensive software facilities scattered about he globe. It means common understanding, a common tradition, common idea's and common ideals.”
Robert M. Hutchins
“People will realize that software is not a product; you use it to build a product,”
Linus Torvalds
“Although we are satisfied with our performance in personal systems, imaging and printing, software, and services, these solid results were overshadowed by unacceptable execution in enterprise servers and storage. We therefore are making immediate management changes. We are also accelerating our margin improvement plans in this business.”
Carly Fiorina
“As a rule, software systems do not work well until they have been used, and have failed repeatedly, in real applications.”
Dave Parnas
“Walking on water and developing software from a specification are easy if both are frozen.”
Edward Berard
“I regularly read Internet user groups filled with messages from people trying to solve software incompatibility problems that, in terms of complexity, make the U.S. Tax Code look like Dr. Seuss.”
Dave Barry
“One basis for society is that of helping your neighbor -- but in the software world this is piracy. To prevent this, the U.S. is putting in place practices which are like those in the former Soviet Union -- computerized guards, propaganda in favor of licensing, rewards for informing on co-workers, and penalties which make distributing software as serious a crime as armed robbery.”
Richard Stallman
“Sun is ill equipped to be the low-cost hardware provider. It's the right move to move towards software.”
Dion Cornett
“We really need it because Microsoft keeps releasing sloppier and sloppier software that needs a faster and faster machine. The speed is crazy.”
Ken Olsen
