#software

However, writing software without defects is not sufficient. In my experience, it is at least as difficult to write software that is safe - that is, software that behaves reasonably under adverse conditions. ↗

— Wietse Venema

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Well, user feedback was excellent. Even when the software didn't work at all, there were few people who were avid users, and there were people who were just sending excellent feedback and excellent ideas. ↗

— Shawn Fanning

#even #excellent #feedback #few #few people

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

— Edward Tufte

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Indeed, the woes of Software Engineering are not due to lack of tools, or proper management, but largely due to lack of sufficient technical competence. ↗

— Niklaus Wirth

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Software development is technical activity conducted by human beings. ↗

— Niklaus Wirth

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I'm not saying we purposely introduced bugs or anything, but this is kind of a natural result of any complexities of software... that you can't fully test it. ↗

— Will Wright

#anything #bugs #complexities #fully #i

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

— Miguel de Icaza

#else #every #going #infringe #likely

In short, software is eating the world. ↗

— Marc Andreessen

#short #software #world

More and more major businesses and industries are being run on software and delivered as online services - from movies to agriculture to national defense. ↗

— Marc Andreessen

#being #businesses #defense #delivered #industries

Over the next 10 years, I expect many more industries to be disrupted by software, with new world-beating Silicon Valley companies doing the disruption in more cases than not. ↗

— Marc Andreessen

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