Twenty-five years ago, the notion was you could create a general problem-solver software that could solve problems in many different domains. That just turned out to be totally wrong. – Howard Gardner
The software industry has to become better in componentization. That’s a clear focus for most of the software companies. How components look, how they are maintained, the ability to maintain them separately. – Hasso Plattner
You don’t need to recall 100,000 cars because you need to fix something. That can be done with a download of software. – Hans Vestberg
There is one major problem with anti-virus software: It needs updating. Users cannot be relied upon to have even the anti-virus software in the first place, let alone be able or willing to pay for the updates. – Glenn Turner
Open source production has shown us that world-class software, like Linux and Mozilla, can be created with neither the bureaucratic structure of the firm nor the incentives of the marketplace as we’ve known them. – Howard Rheingold
As every new breed of virus is conceived, created and released into the wild, another small change is made to the anti-virus software to combat the new threat. – Glenn Turner
I don’t like creating software anymore. It’s too exact. It’s like karate; there’s no room for error. – John Maeda
When Thomas and John Knoll launched Photoshop 1.0 in 1990, the software couldn’t even handle color images. But their offerings got the startup noticed by Apple and Adobe, both of whom became key to the fledgling company’s later success. – Jay Samit
I started Shutterstock out of my own need. I’d previously created a few software companies, and each time, I struggled to find affordable images to use on my websites. – Jon Oringer
When we launched the first version of Basecamp in 2004, we decided to build software for small companies just like us. – Jason Fried
Limit use of shareware and public domain software to systems without fixed disks. If you do use them on fixed disks, allocate separate subdirectories… Public domain or shareware software should never be placed in the root directory. – John McAfee
Human beings either function as individuals or as members of a pack. There’s a switch inside us, deep in our spirit, that you can turn one way or the other. It’s almost always the case that our worst behaviour comes out when we’re switched to the mob setting. The problem with a lot of software designs is that they switch us to that setting. – Jaron Lanier
As I started college, I started to build software products that I could sell to people over the Web. – Jon Oringer
When it became clear that I wasn’t going to have the opportunity to do any work on VR while at id software, I decided to not renew my contract. – John Carmack
By being able to write a genome and plug it into an organism, the software, if you will, changes the hardware. – Barry Schuler
Maintaining a consistent platform also helps improve product support – a significant problem in the software industry. – Bill Gates
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? – Alan Perlis
Digital art software has empowered both the painterly side of photographers, and the photographer side of painters. – Buffy Sainte-Marie
The truth of Moore’s law has made remarkable things possible. On the software side, I think natural user interfaces in all their forms are equally significant. – Bill Gates
Whether it’s Google or Apple or free software, we’ve got some fantastic competitors and it keeps us on our toes. – Bill Gates
Paper is no longer a big part of my day. I get 90% of my news online, and when I go to a meeting and want to jot things down, I bring my Tablet PC. It’s fully synchronized with my office machine, so I have all the files I need. It also has a note-taking piece of software called OneNote, so all my notes are in digital form. – Bill Gates
I developed some unique software to public it on the web that I call the Folklore Project. – Andy Hertzfeld
The hazards posed by Near-Earth Asteroids are assessed by Sentry, a computer system developed by the Near-Earth Objects Group at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, Calif. The software factors together a cosmic rock’s coordinates, distance, velocity, and gravitational influences to calculate its trajectory. – Brendan I. Koerner
I was lucky to be involved and get to contribute to something that was important, which is empowering people with software. – Bill Gates
I do read licenses, and they aggravate me, but a computer isn’t much good without software. When I need a product, I hold my nose and click ‘agree.’ – Barton Gellman
