#software

My first company, Pure Software, was exciting and innovative in the first few years and bureaucratic and painful in the last few before it got acquired. The problem was we tried to systemize everything and set up perfect procedures. ↗

— Reed Hastings

#before #bureaucratic #company #everything #exciting

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

— Miguel de Icaza

#else #every #going #infringe #likely

Reading computer manuals without the hardware is as frustrating as reading manuals without the software. ↗

— Arthur C. Clarke

#computer #frustrating #hardware #manuals #reading

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

— Tim Berners-Lee

#compiler #engineer #good #interchangeable #interpreter

Most people treat the office manual the way they treat a software manual. They never look at it. ↗

— James Levine

#look #manual #most #never #office