18 Quotes on Software

• Just as a poet arranges words to evoke emotion, a coder crafts silos of code to ignite possibility in digital noises. Both weave experiences out of what seems fragmentary and dry, finding beauty in their shared craft.

  Author: Alice Thorne

• Defect-free software does not exist.

  Author: Wietse Venema

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

  Author: Wietse Venema

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

  Author: Linus Torvalds

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

  Author: Linus Torvalds

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

  Author: Alan Perlis

• 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

• Venture capitalists are like lemmings jumping on the software bandwagon.

  Author: Adam Osborne

• 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

• 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

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

  Author: Tim Lee

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

  Author: Miguel Icaza

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

  Author: Miguel Icaza

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

  Author: Trip Hawkins

• I just became one with my browser software.

  Author: Bill Griffith

• 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

• All software sucks.

  Author: Alan Cox

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

  Author: Jim Allchin

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