Software sayings

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◆ 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

- Bill Gates99

◆ Software will never replace the Koran.

- Dan Wieden99

◆ Why shouldn't we give our teachers a license to obtain software, all software, any software, for nothing? Does anyone demand a licensing fee, each time a child is taught the alphabet?

- William Gibson99

◆ We decided that we wanted our developers to come with clear minds, not polluted by some other approach, to learn the way that we liked to develop software, and to put the kind of energy into it that we thought was key.

- Bill Gates99

◆ Software is like sex: it's better when it's free.

- Linus Torvalds99

◆ There are no significant bugs in our released software that any significant number of users want fixed

- Bill Gates99

◆ Software is a great combination between artistry and engineering. When you finally get done and get to appreciate what you have done it is like a part of yourself that you've put together. I think a lot of the people here feel that way.

- Bill Gates99

◆ Software is usually accompanied by documentation in the form of big fat scary manuals that nobody ever reads. In fact, for the past five years most of the manuals shipped with software products have actually been copies of Stephen King's The Stand with new covers pasted on.

- Dave Barry99

◆ It's time to reappreciate the original software: paper.

- Dale Dauten99

◆ Analytical software enables you to shift human resources from rote data collection to value-added customer service and support where the human touch makes a profound difference.

- Bill Gates99

◆ Digital art software has empowered both the painterly side of photographers, and the photographer side of painters.

- Buffy Sainte-Marie99

◆ Fighting patents one by one will never eliminate the danger of software patents, any more than swatting mosquitoes will eliminate malaria.

- Richard Stallman99

◆ You get the software you pay for. In every sense. To the nth degree. That's the way the world works.

- Dave Winer99

◆ When I write software, I know that it will fail, either due to my own mistake, or due to some other cause.

- Wietse Venema99

◆ Writing software that's safe even in the presence of bugs makes the challenge even more interesting.

- Wietse Venema99