Quotes on Software

There is no neat distinction between operating system software and the software that runs on top of it.

Author: Jim Allchin

All software sucks.

Author: Alan Cox

Whether it's Google or Apple or free software, we've got some fantastic competitors and it keeps us on our toes.

Author: Bill Gates

I just became one with my browser software.

Author: Bill Griffith

None of our competitors have ever made two systems that run the same software.

Author: Trip Hawkins

The software patent problem is not limited to Mono. Software patents affect everyone writing software today.

Author: Miguel Icaza

Every piece of software written today is likely going to infringe on someone else's patent.

Author: Miguel Icaza

Any good software engineer will tell you that a compiler and an interpreter are interchangeable.

Author: Tim Lee

While the creative works from the 16th century can still be accessed and used by others, the data in some software programs from the 1990s is already inaccessible.

Author: Lawrence Lessig

So what I was essentially doing was, I compromised the confidentiality of their proprietary software to advance my agenda of becoming the best at breaking through the lock.

Author: Kevin Mitnick

Venture capitalists are like lemmings jumping on the software bandwagon.

Author: Adam Osborne

Is it possible that software is not like anything else, that it is meant to be discarded: that the whole point is to always see it as a soap bubble?

Author: Alan Perlis

In software systems it is often the early bird that makes the worm.

Author: Alan Perlis

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

Author: Linus Torvalds

Shareware tends to combine the worst of commercial software with the worst of free software.

Author: Linus Torvalds

Like all software, Qmail can survive only when it keeps up with changing requirements.

Author: Wietse Venema

Defect-free software does not exist.

Author: Wietse Venema