“A lot of jobs today are being automated; what happens when you extend that concept to very important areas of society like law enforcement? What happens if you start controlling the behavior of criminals or people in general with software-running machines? Those questions, they look like they're sci-fi but they're not.” PeopleIfsLooksImportantHappensRunningTodayJobsLawBehaviorConceptsAreasMachinesCriminalsSoftwareSci FiLaw EnforcementEnforcement Author:Jose Padilha
“Accountants, machinists, medical technicians, even software writers that write the software for "machines" are being displaced without upscaled replacement jobs. Retrain, rehire into higher paying and value-added jobs? That may be the political myth of the modern era. There aren't enough of those jobs.” WritingMayEnoughJobsPoliticalValuesModernHigherMachinesMythMedicalErasSoftwareAccountantsReplacementsTechniciansModern Era Author:Bill Gross
“Software engineering is the establishment and use of sound engineering principles to obtain economically software that is reliable and works on real machines efficiently.” RealUseSoundPrinciplesMachinesSoftwareEstablishmentEngineeringSoftware Engineering Author:Friedrich L. Bauer
“Make a faster machine and people will flock to inefficient software.” PeopleMachinesFasterSoftwareFlocks Author:John C. Dvorak
“We offer them mediocrity while calling it magic. We offer them the illusion of intelligent software, seducing them into surrendering the task of thinking to the machine. Of course, the machine isn't thinking, which means that nobody is.” ThinkingMeanCoursesMagicCallingOffersIllusionTasksMachinesIntelligentSoftwareMediocritySeducing Author:Larry Constantine
“Similarly, computer literacy courses tend to produce computer people who know a lot about computers or a piece of software but they don't help people become fluent with the machine.” PeopleKnowsHelpingCoursesPiecesProduceComputerMachinesSoftwareLiteracyFluentComputer Literacy Author:Seymour Papert
“Software was the key element that would determine how useable and how broadly applicable the machine was.” KeysElementsMachinesDetermineSoftware Author:Bill Gates
“When you write a piece of software you assume a certain type of hardware. If you assume hardware that's too powerful then you can't sell many copies cause very few people have that machine. If you assume hardware that's too simple your product can't do as much.” PeopleIfsWritingCertainCausesSimplePowerfulPiecesProductsTypeMachinesSellsAssumingCopiesSoftwareHardware Author:Bill Gates
“We have over 60 million machines that can take the same diskette, plug it in and immediately ah, that that software's working. And so it's created the worldwide software industry that... that is so very competitive and moving so quickly.” MovingMillionsIndustryMachinesSoftwarePlugs Author:Bill Gates
“I have mostly software synthesizers and software drum machines. I'm very lazy. I don't really like to plug in a lot of equipment and external boxes and everything.” MachinesBoxesLazySoftwareEquipmentPlugsSynthesizers Author:Karin Dreijer Andersson
“I was not in a good space in my life, emotionally particularly, so I needed to do something to recharge my batteries emotionally and musically. I took a break and I learnt software and programming a little bit, and that's how I designed my live machine, which I've been using for years.” YearsLittlesBitsSpaceBreakNeededLittle BitMachinesProgrammingSoftwareBatteries Author:Jamie Lidell
“We're responsible for the creation of the PC industry. The whole idea of compatible machines and lots of software - that's something we brought to computing. And so it's a responsibility for us to make sure that things like security don't get in the way of that dream.” WayInspirationalIdeasWholeDreamMoneyBusinessResponsibilityTechnologySecurityCreationIndustryInternetMachinesResponsibleSoftwareCompatibleComputing Author:Bill Gates
“By the time Apple's Macintosh operating system finally falls into the public domain, there will be no machine that could possibly run it. The term of copyright for software is effectively unlimited.” RunningFallTermMachinesApplesSoftwareUnlimitedDomainCopyrightOperating SystemsMacintoshPublic Domain Author:Lawrence Lessig
“It's hardware that makes a machine fast. It's software that makes a fast machine slow.” ComputerMachinesSoftwareComputer ScienceHardwareComputer SoftwareFunny Computer Author:Craig Reucassel