(1398 quotes found)
“Always code as if the guy who ends up maintaining your code will be a violent psychopath who knows where you live.”
Rick Osborne
“The software is where the magic is. If you're going to have all this power be simple enough, appealing enough and cool enough, it's going to be because the software is right.”
Bill Gates
“This decision is consistent with our strategy to focus all of our software development resources on extending the Macintosh operating system.”
Steve Jobs
“[According to Robert LeBlanc, general manager for WebSphere for IBM Software Group, Staples became an early adopter of SOA two years ago, working closely with IBM to build a scalable, integrated, multichannel retailing solution.] They needed scalability, because the old system did not scale, ... and they started to grow and expand their business. And they really needed a new style of architecture. ... They wanted to go over the system once and reuse the pieces over and over again as they were bringing new services to their customer set.”
Robert LeBlanc
“We decided that the French could never write user-friendly software because they're so rude.”
Douglas Coupland
“Software comes from heaven when you have good hardware.”
Ken Olsen
“These are not your average hackers. They're highly skilled people who try to find holes in commercial software.”
Ira Winkler
“I'm hoping our software strategies are boring to you, because they're not changing every year, ... That is our strategy.”
“When I was at Oracle, we watched Computer Associates buy all those mainframe software companies and milk them for their license revenue. I never thought that's what Oracle would be doing one day, and yet, here it is,”
Marc Benioff
“What will be most fun for me is to see how your generation comes in and takes software to a whole new level.”
