#software

I really think it is amazing that people actually buy software. ↗

— Bill Budge

#amazing #buy #i #people #really

It's hardware that makes a machine fast. It's software that makes a fast machine slow. ↗

— Craig Bruce

#fast #hardware #machine #makes #slow

For many people my software is something that you install and forget. I like to keep it that way. ↗

— Wietse Venema

#i #install #keep #like #many

A geek is a guy who has everything going for him but he's just too young. He's got the software but he doesn't have the hardware yet. ↗

— John Hughes

#geek #going #got #guy #hardware

People who are really serious about software should make their own hardware. ↗

— Alan Kay

#about #hardware #make #own #people

Most software today is very much like an Egyptian pyramid with millions of bricks piled on top of each other, with no structural integrity, but just done by brute force and thousands of slaves. ↗

— Alan Kay

#brute #brute force #done #each #egyptian

A lot of people who work on open-source software don't mind making money elsewhere. They aren't anticommercial. ↗

— Jimmy Wales

#lot #making #making money #mind #money

You get the software you pay for. In every sense. To the nth degree. That's the way the world works. ↗

— Dave Winer

#every #get #nth #pay #sense

Yet, I am convinced that there is a need for high quality software, and the time will come when it will be recognized that it is worth investing effort in its development and in using a careful, structured approach based on safe, structured languages. ↗

— Niklaus Wirth

#approach #based #careful #come #convinced

Originally, I was in both software and in online computing. The first innovation really was sort of at that time that we're marrying the telephone and the computer so that people wouldn't have to drive to the computer center. We didn't have $1,000 computers. ↗

— Sam Wyly

#center #computer #computers #computing #drive