302 Software Quotes for You to Enjoy

I feel lucky because earlier in my career, I found what I liked to do; it's build software that you see your friends using on the street, and they like it. Dennis Crowley

You Build Software See Feel Like Liked Because Friends Your Using Lucky Found Street Earlier Career

From the late '70s to the early '90s, I wrote anything anybody would pay me for. This ranged from articles on how to clean a longhorn cow's skull for living-room decoration to manuals on elementary math instruction on the Apple II... to a slew of software reviews and application articles done for the computer press. Diana Gabaldon

Me Pay Late Software Press Would Clean Computer Instruction Wrote How Math Cow Reviews Articles Done Anybody Anything Decoration Skull Elementary Apple Apple II Application Early

To me, it looks more or less like the hardware designers have run out of ideas and that they're trying to pass the blame for the future demise of Moore's Law to the software writers by giving us machines that work faster only on a few key benchmarks! Donald Knuth

Work Future Me Blame Key Law Giving Few Faster Software Machines Out Run Moore More Only More Or Less Writers Like Demise Ideas Looks Pass Trying Us Less Designers Hardware

Google did a great job hacking the Web to create search - and then monetizing search with advertising. And Apple did a great job humanizing hardware and software so that formerly daunting computers and applications could become consumer-friendly devices - even a lifestyle brand. Douglas Rushkoff

Great Job Google Become Software Great Job Web Daunting Could Lifestyle Hacking Computers Devices Advertising Brand Did Then Create Search Even Apple Applications Hardware

For Google, the problem with being a free, abundant, and rather infinite set of services is that it's hard to create much of a stir about anything. There are so many major software service options under the 'more' menu on the Gmail page that they've had to go and add a final item called 'even more.' Douglas Rushkoff

Service Problem Free Google Add Software Final About Rather More Menu Had Abundant Major Go Stir Item Options Infinite Being The Problem With Anything Create Much Page Hard Many Even Services Set

The reason why Apple computers have worked so well over time is that, unlike Microsoft, they don't bend over backward to be compatible with every piece of hardware or software in the digital universe. To code or create for Apple, you follow Apple's rules. If you're even allowed to. Douglas Rushkoff

Time You Digital Every Universe Bend Software Unlike Rules Backward Follow Computers Allowed Over Piece Well Microsoft Worked Create Reason Even Code Why Apple Compatible Hardware

Modern records are all made with virtually identical gear, software plug-ins and everything. Everybody wants everything to sound like the last thing that was popular because they're chasing their tails. Dweezil Zappa

Made Chasing Everybody Software Virtually Everything Gear Records Tails Like Identical Because Sound Modern Wants Popular Thing Last

I think it is important for software to avoiding imposing a cognitive style on workers and their work. Edward Tufte

Work Important Style Think Software Imposing Workers Avoiding Cognitive

Many tools are indispensable for my work, from a utility knife to parametric-modeling software, like Digital Project. But it's important not to confuse the tool for the content, as some designers under 30 do. Elizabeth Diller

Work Digital Important Confuse Software Tool Tools Project Some Indispensable Knife Like Content Many Utility Designers

It has occurred to me that if people really knew how software got written, I'm not sure they'd give their money to a bank or get on an airplane ever again. Ellen Ullman

Me People Money Software Airplane Give Written Knew Sure Got How Occurred Get Bank Again Really Ever

Closed environments dominated the computing world of the 1970s and early '80s. An operating system written for a Hewlett-Packard computer ran only on H.P. computers; I.B.M. controlled its software from chips up to the user interfaces. Ellen Ullman

World Closed Software Ran System Only Computer Computers Computing Written Environments Operating Operating System Up Dominated Controlled Chips User Early

Software and digital devices are imbued with the values of their creators. Ellen Ullman

Digital Values Software Devices Creators

Trying to read our DNA is like trying to understand software code - with only 90% of the code riddled with errors. It's very difficult in that case to understand and predict what that software code is going to do. Elon Musk

Predict Difficult Software Our Case Only Like Read Understand Errors Very Trying Going Riddled Code

If Unix could present the same face, the same capabilities, on machines of many different types, it could serve as a common software environment for all of them. Eric S. Raymond

Face Software Types Machines Could Environment Same Common Different Capabilities Them Many Different Types Serve Present UNIX

Many composers use software to write music - programs like Finale or Sibelius. There are also recording programs. I should say I'm still very old-fashioned, I still use pencil and paper. But almost every composer I know does it the 'new way.' Eric Whitacre

Music Recording Every Programs Software Finale Way Paper Say Pencil Composer Composers Write Almost New Like Know Also Does Still Very New Way Should Use Old-Fashioned Many

There are lots of examples of routine, middle-skilled jobs that involve relatively structured tasks, and those are the jobs that are being eliminated the fastest. Those kinds of jobs are easier for our friends in the artificial intelligence community to design robots to handle them. They could be software robots; they could be physical robots. Erik Brynjolfsson

Artificial Intelligence Intelligence Intelligence Community Community Design Software Our Relatively Those Easier Jobs Kinds Physical Examples Structured Could Involve Robots Lots Friends Handle Tasks Artificial Being Them Routine Eliminated Fastest