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“From what type of software could help us make a movie faster to everything else regarding the textures. Some might think, "It's probably very easy to make a film with those textures," but it's much more difficult than what it appears to be. We had to discover a faster process because otherwise it could have taken us 10 years to make it.”

Thinking Years Helping Might Film Easy Process Difficult Taken Type Faster Software Texture

Author:Alex Abreu

“Early versions of Microsoft Word left a lot to be desired. However, to the company's credit, it quickly learned where Word fell short, made the necessary changes, and repeatedly introduced new versions of the software.”

Made Left Company Credit Versions Software Microsoft Necessary Change Microsoft Word

Author:Naveen Jain

“Education should not be about building more schools and maintaining a system that dates back to the industrial revolution. We can achieve so much more, at unmatched scale with software and interactive learning.”

Should School Achieve Building Revolution Scales Software Maintaining Industrial Revolution Interactive

Author:Naveen Jain

“Software will never replace the Koran.”

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Author:Dan Wieden

“At the end of the day, the GPL is not about making software free; it's about destroying value.”

Ends Values The End Of The Day Software Destroying

Author:Darl McBride

“Uruguay is one of the biggest producers of software. We are breaking with the neoliberal model. We do not believe in free trade.”

Believe Models Trade Producers Software Free Trade

Author:Hugo Chavez

“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.”

People Knows Helping Courses Pieces Produce Computer Machines Software Literacy Fluent Computer Literacy

Author:Seymour Papert

“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.”

Ifs Should Use Jobs Goal Ability Pieces Computer Software

Author:Seymour Papert

“I prefer software where kids build something and run into problems they have to solve.”

Problem Running Kids Solve Software

Author:Seymour Papert

“There's a tendency to make jazzy educational software that's very uniform and therefore just like school. I'd like to see a company develop software for rebellious kids who don't want to go to school.”

Want Kids School Company Educational Tendencies Software Uniforms Rebellious

Author:Seymour Papert

“Patent law holds us back, in every which way, shape or form. There is place for it, in physical products, in pharmaceuticals, but in software in particular, there is no place for it.”

Way Form Law Particular Products Shapes Software Patents Patent Law

Author:Mark Cuban

“In science, the whole system builds on people looking at other people's results and building on top of them. In witchcraft, somebody had a small secret and guarded it - but never allowed others to really understand it and build on it. Traditional software is like witchcraft. In history, witchcraft just died out. The same will happen in software. When problems get serious enough, you can't have one person or one company guarding their secrets. You have to have everybody share in the knowledge.”

People Persons Enough Whole Problem Happens Results Secret Company Share Building Serious Died Traditional Software Witchcraft Guarded Guarding

Author:Linus Torvalds

“So just to be clear, Microsoft has created a new operating system that isn't properly compatible with a best-selling, still perfectly useable version of its own software. Which of course provides quite a powerful incentive for me to spend up to £99.99 on upgrading to Microsoft Outlook 2007 - except that in my current mood, I'd rather stick pins in my eyes.”

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Author:Robert Peston

“PowerPoint is the Rodney Dangerfield of software. It gets no respect.”

Software No Respect Powerpoint

Author:Ken Goldberg

“The [Bernie] Sanders campaign became the center of a good old-fashioned political controversy. His coverage went from no news to bad news with the revelation that four Sanders staffers took advantage of a software glitch to access confidential voter data belonging to the Hillary Clinton campaign.”

Political Four News Advantage Clinton Access Campaigns Data Revelations Belonging Voters Software Old Fashioned Controversy Coverage Bad News Confidential Glitches

Author:Melissa Harris-Perry

“What we were doing was trying to simply get the information we need once we learned from our vendor after the software glitch occurred that there had been a breach by the Sanders campaign staff, which I was glad to see senator [Bernie] Sanders acknowledge that was wrong and apologize for.”

Needs Trying Information Campaigns Glad Acknowledge Software Staff Apologizing Senators Breach Vendors Glitches

Author:Debbie Wasserman Schultz

“Some PhD physicists write software or work for hedge funds, but physics still has a problem with having very smart people but not enough opportunities.”

People Writing Stills Enough Problem Opportunity Smart Physics Fund Software Physicist Smart People Very Smart Phds Hedge Fund

Author:Stuart J. Russell

“More and more software would just increase the number of tasks that the computer would help solve.”

Helping Numbers Computer Tasks Increase Solve Software

Author:Bill Gates

“Software was the key element that would determine how useable and how broadly applicable the machine was.”

Keys Elements Machines Determine Software

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.”

People Ifs Writing Certain Causes Simple Powerful Pieces Products Type Machines Sells Assuming Copies Software Hardware

Author:Bill Gates

“Creating a piece of software is always complicated because you're doing something new. If you just wanted something that had been done before you'd just use that old piece of software. So there are no repetitive tasks.”

Ifs Done Use Wanted Pieces Creating Tasks Complicated Something New Software Repetitive

Author:Bill Gates

“When you develop software, the people who write the software, the developers are the key group but the testers also play an absolutely critical role. They're the ones who ah, write thousands and thousands of examples and make sure that it's going to work on all the different computers and printers and the different amounts of memory or networks that the software'11 be used in. That's a very hard job.”

People Writing Different Hard Play Jobs Used Memories Roles Groups Example Keys Amount Computer Critical Software Going To Work Developers Printer Testers

Author:Bill Gates

“As you get to the end of the project you want to run all the tests cases against one version and make sure that you know that that version passed everything. And so as you get late in the project you get a little more conservative about making radical changes to the software.”

Knows Want Littles Ends Running Cases Projects Late Tests Conservative Versions Radical Software Radical Change

Author:Bill Gates

“Software is different than other products um, partly because it's, it's not physical and, and partly because of its complexity. You can express in software millions of different cases and making sure that you handle all of them correctly is extremely difficult.”

Different Difficult Millions Cases Products Handle Complexity Software

Author:Bill Gates

“People are building the software and so having the pieces be such that a single person understands all the tradeoffs and everything that's going on in a piece is extremely valuable. It avoids getting into an experimental mode where you're just trying things out. That never works.”

People Trying Persons Pieces Building Valuable Software Single Person

Author:Bill Gates

“There are a variety of techniques for breaking software down into pieces and making software development more efficient. Many of these techniques have been sort of... and everybody got excited about but very little benefit was actually derived once the thing was put into practice.”

Littles Has Beens Practice Pieces Development Benefits Excited Technique Variety Software Efficient Software Development

Author:Bill Gates

“Software is inherently complicated. If you say to somebody I want an airline reservation system, to really say what you want in terms of overbooking and fares, and different airlines communicating with each or schedule changes, it's immensely complex. And so you can't write a program that's any simpler than that full specification.”

Ifs Want Writing Different Term Program Complexes Communicate Complicated What You Want Software Schedules Airline Reservations Specifications

Author:Bill Gates

“Another trick in software is to avoid rewriting the software by using a piece that's already been written, so called component approach which the latest term for this in the most advanced form is what's called Object Oriented Programming.”

Form Term Pieces Written Objects Approach Tricks Programming Software Components Rewriting

Author:Bill Gates

“The most important people is to pick people who like to write software and who are good at... good developers like working with each other. And they... they reinforce each other's skills.”

People Writing Important Skills Picks Software Developers

Author:Bill Gates

“In software you can't really add people and expect to get more done, because their ability to understand the program and what's going on it would require so much investment and all their work would require so much review that you'd be more likely to slow things down.”

People Done Ability Program Add Investment Reviews Software

Author:Bill Gates

“Finding information is either a software question or a question of how much information is online.”

Information Findings Online Software

Author:Bill Gates

“The most important thing was the creation of a... a standard, where hundreds of companies build hardware that can all run the same software.”

Important Running Company Creation Standards Important Things Software Hardware

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.”

Moving Millions Industry Machines Software Plugs

Author:Bill Gates

“Software is definitely engineering. It's different in that we take on novel tasks every time. It's not like building a certain bridge that is virtually identical to some previous bridge or some previous building.”

Different Certain Novel Building Tasks Bridges Software Engineering Identical

Author:Bill Gates

“Software will get to be somewhat more mature, ah, but it will never be as predictable as most areas of engineering.”

Areas Mature Software Engineering Predictable

Author:Bill Gates

“The security world needs to take a more proactive approach. A lot of companies will know an exploit exists and they'll release the software anyways, and the patch later on. Stuff like this needs to stop. There needs to be some kind of agency that verifies code before it's released, maybe a grading system for code.”

Knows World Needs Kind Stuff Company Security Approach Release Code Agency Software Exploits Patches Proactive Verify

Author:Michael Demon Calce

“Computers themselves, and software yet to be developed, will revolutionize the way we learn.”

Way Computer Software

Author:Steve Jobs

“The engineering is long gone in most PC companies. In the consumer electronics companies, they don't understand the software parts of it. And so you really can't make the products that you can make at Apple anywhere else right now. Apple's the only company that has everything under one roof.”

Long Company Gone Products Right Now Consumers Apples Software Engineering Roof Electronics

Book:Motivating Thoughts of Steve Jobs

Source: Motivating Thoughts of Steve Jobs

“I was writing and developing software for alumnae to be able to connect and communicate.”

Writing Able Communicate Developing Software

Author:Biz Stone

“I think it's the strange irony that we make all these life choices before we're 40, because really we shouldn't make any until we're 40. It almost feels like you get a software upgrade and you start to experience life in such a different way, because you just don't suffer fools, you go straight for what means something and what feels good, and you stop caring about pleasing other people.”

People Thinking Way Feels Mean Different Suffering Choices Strange Like You Fool Caring Feel Good Irony Different Ways Software Life Choices Stop Caring Pleasing Others

Author:Gwyneth Paltrow

“A new software is being developed so the psychological operations guys and the Pentagon's strategic communications guys - and we don't really know who's running it - but this is all totally out in the open. It's this new program that will allow them to have like ten fake Twitter accounts and ten Facebook accounts so you can pretend.”

Knows Running Guy Communication Ten Program Accounts Psychological Operations Fake Software Strategic Pentagon

Author:Michael Hastings

“When you take a look at the transition from server software to Azure, what's going on in terms of cloud infrastructure, the company is absolutely the No. 1 company serving enterprise backbone needs, which is fantastic. It's making the migration to cloud. We started a good thing with Azure, and the company has made well more than two years of progress in terms of being able to compete with the right cost profile, margin structure, and innovation versus Amazon.”

“From a client perspective, I really think the work Microsoft's doing with Surface, with HoloLens, with Xbox, that stuff's absolutely essential to the company's future. Because innovation in the future will either be from the cloud out to all devices, or from devices as supported by software in the cloud. I think it's important for Microsoft to participate both ways.”

Thinking Way Important Stuff Company Perspective Essentials Innovation Clouds Surface Devices Software Clients Microsoft Xbox

Author:Steve Ballmer

“Every NBA arena has six cameras in the ceiling. The question is what does the software do with video feeds? How to surface that in a set of analytics? There are some "playbooks," but in most sports these days what you really want to share out with coaches and players is a set of video that lets you visualize what's going on and what's the best way to do things.”

Way Want Doe Sports Player Share Six Cameras Surface Coaches Best Way Video These Days Nba Software Arena Ceilings Analytics Coaches And Players Playbooks

Author:Steve Ballmer

“We also exchange oil for software technology. Uruguay is one of the biggest producers of software. We are breaking with the neoliberal model. We do not believe in free trade. We believe in fair trade and exchange, not competition but cooperation. I'm not giving away oil for free. Just using oil, first to benefit our people, to relieve poverty.”

People Giving Firsts Believe Poverty Technology Benefits Models Fairs Trade Competition Oil Producers Cooperation Software Free Trade Fair Trade

Author:Hugo Chavez

“I think it's important to also realize that this isn't a case of Apple being asked to simply flip a switch or, you know, plug in a wire from one place to another. They're being asked to write new software that doesn't exist. They purposefully did not create this kind of backdoor.”

Thinking Knows Writing Kind Important Realizing Cases Apples Software Wire Flip Plugs Backdoor

Author:Angus King

“Even philosophers who did not mind psychology, claimed the brain was irrelevant because it was the hardware, and we only need to know about the software.”

Knows Needs Mind Brain Psychology Philosopher Software Irrelevant Hardware

Author:Patricia Churchland

“I love making things, like software, and films, and laughter. And working with Gus Silber, to make the Funny Business book, has been a fantastic journey.”

Has Beens Book Film Journey Laughter Fantastic Software Love Making Funny Business Gus

Author:Ronnie Apteker

“[Eric]Goldman [a professor at Santa Clara University School of Law] says back in the 1990s, courts began to confront the question of whether software code is a form of speech. Goldman says the answer to that question came in a case called Bernstein v. U.S. Department of Justice. Student Daniel Bernstein who created an encryption software called Snuffle. He wanted to put it on the Internet. The government tried to prevent him, using a law meant to stop the export of firearms and munitions. Goldman says the student argued his code was a form of speech.”

Government Wanted School Form Law Justice Answers Cases Students Internet Speech Court University Code Department Professors Software Santa Eric Firearms Encryption Clara

Author:Laura Sydell

“The Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals agreed, and software has been treated as a form of speech ever since. So if software code is speech, Apple says the First Amendment also means the government can't tell Apple what to say.”

Ifs Firsts Mean Has Beens Government Form Speech Court Treated Appeals Code Apples Software Amendments First Amendment Circuits

Author:Laura Sydell

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