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“Talk is cheap. Show me the code.”

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Author:Linus Torvalds

“It wasn't an excuse. It was a fact. He'd had to make his way alone, and no one - not rock stars, not professional athletes, not software billionaires, and not even geniuses - ever makes it alone.”

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Author:Malcolm Gladwell

“Software development, like professional sports, has a way of making thirty-year-old men feel decrepit.”

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Book:Snow Crash

Source: Snow Crash

“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.”

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Author:Bill Gates

“There are two ways of constructing a software design: One way is to make it so simple that there are obviously no deficiencies, and the other way is to make it so complicated that there are no obvious deficiencies. The first method is far more difficult.”

“The trouble with programmers is that you can never tell what a programmer is doing until it's too late.”

“If something's expensive to develop, and somebody's not going to get paid, it won't get developed. So you decide: Do you want software to be written, or not?”

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Author:Bill Gates

“The business models in enterprise have changed pretty dramatically. A huge problem with enterprise software traditionally has been usually you sell to the customer and then they adopt the technology. The great thing about 'freemium' and the new way enterprise software is being sold is you get to try it first and then buy it.”

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Author:Aaron Levie

“There's an old story about the person who wished his computer were as easy to use as his telephone. That wish has come true, since I no longer know how to use my telephone.”

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Author:Bjarne Stroustrup

“The key idea of agile is that teams essentially manage themselves. ... It works in software, and it turns out that it works with kids.”

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Author:Bruce Feiler

“By being able to write a genome and plug it into an organism, the software, if you will, changes the hardware.”

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Author:Barry Schuler

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

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Author:Bill Gates

“If debugging is the process of removing software bugs, then programming must be the process of putting them in.”

“Software sucks because users demand it to.”

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Author:Nathan Myhrvold

“The most revolutionary aspect of technology is its mobility. Anybody can learn it. It jumps easily over barriers of race and language. ... The new technology of microchips and computer software is learned much faster than the old technology of coal and iron. It took three generations of misery for the older industrial countries to master the technology of coal and iron. The new industrial countries of East Asia, South Korea, and Singapore and Taiwan, mastered the new technology and made the jump from poverty to wealth in a single generation.”

“We're putting all of our energy into making it right. And we have already had several software updates. We've got a huge plan to make it even better. It will get better and better over time. We screwed up. That's the fact.”

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Author:Tim Cook

“A great lathe operator commands several times the wage of an average lathe operator, but a great writer of software code is worth 10,000 times the price of an average software writer.”

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Author:Bill Gates

“Considering the current sad state of our computer programs, software development is clearly still a black art, and cannot yet be called an engineering discipline.”

“Early on, when software was developed by computer scientists, just people working with computers, people passed around software because that was how you got computers to do things.”

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Author:Tim O'Reilly

“Hardware: where the people in your company's software section will tell you the problem is. Software: where the people in your company's hardware section will tell you the problem is.”

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Book:Claw Your Way to the Top: How to Become the Head of a Major Corporation in Roughly a Week

Source: Claw Your Way to the Top: How to Become the Head of a Major Corporation in Roughly a Week

“I want people to understand the amazing, positive way our software can make leisure time more enjoyable, and work and businesses more successful.”

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Author:Steve Ballmer

“Software companies should take more responsibility for security holes, especially in browsers and e-mail clients. There are some straightforward things the industry should be doing right now to fix things, and I don't know why they haven't been done yet.”

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Author:Tim Berners-Lee

“Software suppliers are trying to make their software packages more 'user-friendly'... Their best approach so far has been to take all the old brochures and stamp the words 'user-friendly' on the cover.”

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Author:Bill Gates

“Artificial intelligence is based on the assumption that the mind can be described as some kind of formal system manipulating symbols that stand for things in the world. Thus it doesn't matter what the brain is made of, or what it uses for tokens in the great game of thinking. Using an equivalent set of tokens and rules, we can do thinking with a digital computer, just as we can play chess using cups, salt and pepper shakers, knives, forks, and spoons. Using the right software, one system (the mind) can be mapped onto the other (the computer).”

Source: Machinery of the Mind

“Reading computer manuals without the hardware is as frustrating as reading sex manuals without the software.”

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Author:Arthur C. Clarke

“Should array indices start at 0 or 1? My compromise of 0.5 was rejected without, I thought, proper consideration.”

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Author:Stan Kelly-Bootle

“Any fool can write code that a computer can understand. Good programmers write code that humans can understand.”

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“It has been said that the great scientific disciplines are examples of giants standing on the shoulders of other giants. It has also been said that the software industry is an example of midgets standing on the toes of other midgets.”

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Author:Alan Cooper

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

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Author:David F. Emery

“You can either have software quality or you can have pointer arithmetic, but you cannot have both at the same time.”

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Author:Bertrand Meyer

“The burgeoning field of computer science has shifted our view of the physical world from that of a collection of interacting material particles to one of a seething network of information. In this way of looking at nature, the laws of physics are a form of software, or algorithm, while the material world-the hardware-plays the role of a gigantic computer.”

“But cheer up - we could be selling tobacco. It's not like software kills people if used as intended”

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Author:David Chase

“Human life has the software and hardware to go the distance. All we need to do is know our nature and mimic nature's way. Do less and accomplish more; do nothing and accomplish everything is nature's secret to the miracle of life.”

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Author:John Douillard

“A language that doesn't have everything is actually easier to program in than some that do”

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Author:Dennis Ritchie

“Adding manpower to a late software project makes it later”

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Author:Fred Brooks

“Software Engineering is that part of Computer Science which is too difficult for the Computer Scientist.”

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Author:Friedrich L. Bauer

“There is a lot of interest in the arts, music, theatre, filmmaking, engineering, architecture and software design. I think we have now transitioned the modern-day version of the entrepreneur into the creative economy.”

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Author:John Baldacci

“Stay open to as many new tools and think of as many ways you can to utilize them to your advantage. This not only includes equipment and hardware but also software or apps like Sun Seeker and social media outlets like Instagram and Twitter to build community.”

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Author:Vincent Laforet

“The function of good software is to make the complex appear to be simple.”

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Author:Grady Booch

“Just remember: you're not a 'dummy,' no matter what those computer books claim. The real dummies are the people who-though technically expert-couldn't design hardware and software that's usable by normal consumers if their lives depended upon it.”

“There are two ways to write error-free programs; only the third one works.”

“Venture capitalists are like lemmings jumping on the software bandwagon.”

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Author:Adam Osborne

“It should be noted that no ethically-trained software engineer would ever consent to write a DestroyBaghdad procedure. Basic professional ethics would instead require him to write a DestroyCity procedure, to which Baghdad could be given as a parameter.”

“Lisp ... made me aware that software could be close to executable mathematics.”

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Author:L Peter Deutsch

“Learning to program has no more to do with designing interactive software than learning to touch type has to do with writing poetry”

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Author:Ted Nelson

“The way to be successful in the software world is to come up with breakthrough software, and so whether it's Microsoft Office or Windows, its pushing that forward. New ideas, surprising the marketplace, so good engineering and good business are one in the same.”

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Author:Bill Gates

“Good software, like wine, takes time.”

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Author:Joel Spolsky

“The cost of adding a feature isn't just the time it takes to code it. The cost also includes the addition of an obstacle to future expansion. ... The trick is to pick the features that don't fight each other.”

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Author:John Carmack

“In order for us to deliver this we have to integrate the big-screen capability, the PC capability, and the Internet experience. This is a combination of hardware and software that delivers a new media experience.”

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Author:Paul Otellini

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

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Author:Walter Bender

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