Software Quotations

Product pricing is aligned to the way customers want to acquire their solutions and are delivered via different delivery models including appliances, the cloud, or as on-premise software solutions.

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

When someone builds a bridge, he uses engineers who have been certified as knowing what they are doing. Yet when someone builds you a software program, he has no similar certification, even though your safety may be just as dependent upon that software working as it is upon the bridge supporting your weight.

A rational model of software is to design it quickly - the economic pressure to improvise presents an interesting challenge.

The only real mystery in the stories of political plagiarism is its durability in an age of Turnitin and other scanning software that can protect an author from his own mistakes, intentional or otherwise.

'Authoring tools' are terrible; there is almost no software that can create closed captions for media players. And of course there is no training. TV captioning is bad enough, and this stuff is generally worse.

Software comes from heaven when you have good hardware.

Developer testing is an important step towards accountability. It gives developers a way to demonstrate the quality of the software they produce.

If you want to be a modern citizen of the world, you have to be minimally capable in technology. It's a new literacy test. Technology rules your outcome in life. And software is making a lot of decisions in our lives.

As a rule, software systems do not work well until they have been used, and have failed repeatedly, in real applications.

Proprietary software tends to have malicious features. The point is with a proprietary program, when the users dont have the source code, we can never tell. So you must consider every proprietary program as potential malware.

While I personally believe strongly in the philosophy and ideology of the Free Software movement, you can't win people over just on philosophy; you have to have a better product, too.

Software as an asset isn't stable over time; it needs to be maintained.

Jobless workers, especially those out of work for months and years, don't have the skills to multitask in a fast-paced economy where medical workers need to know electronic record-keeping, machinists need computer skills, and marketing managers can no longer delegate software duties.

As things go digital, the notion of new editions will go away. A publisher can add video and assessment content at scale, make the change in 30 seconds and it's just a software update.

Anytime you put a challenge out there, people come up with a creative solution on the software side.

It is sad that so many designers don't know how to make. CAD software can make a bad design look palatable! It is sad that four years can be spent on a 3D design course without making anything! People who are great at designing and making have a great advantage.

The payoff of a customer-centric approach to software and digital product design is substantial and long-lasting for both companies and their customers.

We do care about control and privacy. It's one of the reasons we are so focused on having our systems be open source, so you or someone technically savvy you know can verify what the software is doing.

There's a fundamental problem with how the software business does things. We're asking people who are masters of hard-edged technology to design the soft, human side of software as well. As a result, they make products that are really cool - if you happen to be a software engineer.

Software development is technical activity conducted by human beings.

Most of the effort in the software business goes into the maintenance of code that already exists.

The problem is, in software design, often the consequences of your decisions don't become apparent for years.

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.

It became clear to me by 1984 that Microsoft was likely going to be the big winner in the PC software apps and operating system category, partly because of the dynamics of owning and controlling the operating system: that gave you enormous power, and I came to see Bill Gates was fierce competitor.

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.

It's probably fair to say that the ratio of time our Connector developers spend in the debugger versus the Emacs buffer is higher than with most software.

My reply is: the software has no known bugs, therefore it has not been updated.

If you think about the market that we're in, and more broadly just the enterprise software market, the kind of transition that's happening right now from legacy systems to the cloud is literally, by definition, a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity.

I just became one with my browser software.

I always knew I wanted to be an entrepreneur. I started my own software company in high school and went to college to study entrepreneurship.

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

I wrote a piece of software in 1998 that created fictional weather.

With bundled machines you can throw away the hardware and keep the software, and it's still a good buy.

Agitator and the Agitar Management Dashboard lower the barriers to accountability in software development and increase the value of developer testing.

Talking about Apple v. Microsoft without mentioning the Internet and the browser is like talking about WWII without talking about the nuke. Framing the conversation just in terms of open v. closed operating systems, the quality of the hardware or software or who the CEO was, is silly.

The electronics industry expanded rapidly and the seeds for the semiconductor and software revolution were planted. The postwar period also saw the suburbanization of America, the rise of the homeowner, the build-out of the interstate highway system, and the rise of automobile culture. Credit availability expanded dramatically.

By trade, I am a software programmer, so I never really had any experience with movies before. I started out with 'Paranormal Activity.

Since my own genome was sequenced, my software has been broadcast into space in the form of electromagnetic waves, carrying my genetic information far beyond Earth. Whether there is any creature out there capable of making sense of the instructions in my genome, well, that's another question.

Historically, software for business was seen as unsexy because the products were seen as so poor - they provided such a poor user experience.

Then people started using it more and more and it became the most downloaded software on the internet.

We need to get smarter about hardware and software innovation in order to get the most value from the emerging Internet of Things.

Like all software, Qmail can survive only when it keeps up with changing requirements.

Received wisdom is that if you spend time up front getting the design right, you avoid costs later. But the longer you spend getting the design right, the more your upfront costs are, and the longer it takes for the software to start earning.

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?

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.

The Postfix security model is based on keeping software simple and stupid.

One of the biggest problems that software developers face is that technology changes rapidly. It is very hard to stay current.

The idea of free software is that users of computing deserve freedom. They deserve in particular to have control over their computing. And proprietary software does not allow users to have control of their computing.

I made my money with software - encoded knowledge without which few products and services can exist today - and so it seemed imperative that this would be the field where I would give something back.

The thing is, there are so many different ways to make music these days with virtual instruments, software applications, physical instruments, and computer programs.

Lawmakers misrepresent the facts when they call the manufacturing deduction known as Section 199 - passed by Congress in 2004 to spur domestic job growth - a 'subsidy' for oil and gas firms. The truth is that all U.S. manufacturers, from software producers to filmmakers and coffee roasters, are eligible for this deduction.

Computers themselves, and software yet to be developed, will revolutionize the way we learn.

Writing software is a very intense, very personal thing. You have to have time to work your way through it, to understand it. Then debug it.

The future art historians are going to be software guys who are going to go into the depths of the code to find out what was changed hundreds of years before.

Software is a great combination between artistry and engineering.

The most sought-after candidates in the world today by companies like mine are people who make computer software - there's a shortage of talent.

Software constraints are only confining if you use them for what they're intended to be used for.

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

For whatever reason somebody can be convinced to buy a PC, it opens up a whole new market for all of us in the software business.

Software options proliferate extremely easily - too easily, in fact - because too many options create tools that can't ever be used intuitively. Intuitive actions confine the detail work to a dedicated part of the brain, leaving the rest of one's mind free to respond with attention and sensitivity to the changing texture of the moment.

Technology no longer consists just of hardware or software or even services, but of communities. Increasingly, community is a part of technology, a driver of technology, and an emergent effect of technology.

Software is becoming no different than a videotape or a record album or a paperback book, and not all of us are ready for that change.

GoPro's capture devices and Kolor's software will combine to deliver exciting and highly accessible solutions for capturing, creating, and sharing spherical content.

Certainly there's a phenomenon around open source. You know free software will be a vibrant area. There will be a lot of neat things that get done there.

Given the volume of PC sales and the way McAfee runs its operation, I imagine there must be thousands of phantom subscribers - folks who signed up once upon a time and left the software behind two or three computers ago.

In the future, you won't buy artists' works; you'll buy software that makes original pieces of 'their' works, or that recreates their way of looking at things. You could buy a Shostakovich box, or you could buy a Brahms box. You might want some Shostakovich slow-movement-like music to be generated. So then you use that box.

The possibilities of that tie-in are endless if one contemplates the possibility of software and tools delivered over the Internet and paid for by online adverts. This also gives Microsoft the ability to control its own destiny and eliminate the service that Yahoo is providing selling the ads.

We are proud to add our software offering and talent to the Harris team. Both customers and employees will benefit from the size and resources of Harris, and the long-term commitment Harris has made to the media industry.

We are pleased to say that we are off to a good start in 2006 with continued strong growth in software and product revenues for the first quarter.

We utilize a high-speed Internet and a wireless networking system. The implementation of fiber will upgrade our network to allow teachers to stream video. Teachers will also have the opportunity to participate in online professional development programs, and the students will benefit from the integration of software programs into the curriculum. These programs will be used for student remediation and assessment.

We believe that software development evolves into modeling; and people, in an increasing way, will not program solutions. They will model solutions and these models are executables.

We believe that SAP has taken a big step with its partners in exposing opportunities where we can collaborate to realize new shareholder value. Built on our ArchestrA platform and running on the SAP NetWeaver platform, Invensys Wonderware software solutions will bring new capabilities to the dynamic challenge of production and performance management improvement.

There is no question that their execution has been less than brilliant over the last 12 months. Our business does rely on Microsoft's digital rights management software and our business model also relies on Microsoft's ecosystem of device manufacturers.

Until now, the virtualization market has been dominated by high-end solutions consisting of software (snapshot, replication, etc.) running on high-end chassis hardware (Cisco).

Until now, business intelligence software has been too complex, costly and disconnected from the software tools people use to do their everyday jobs.

We believe that January sales may have been even worse had Microsoft continued its marketing push, and believe that sell through was helped in part by deep discounting of new releases during the month. January marked the fifth consecutive month of software sales decline, and we expect a return to double-digit sales declines in February, with an accelerating rate of decline in March.

We believe that hardware-level security is fundamental. Software solutions may be not fast or robust enough to protect the system and its content when it is connected to the global network environment.

Whether it's watching a $4,000 laptop fall off the conveyor belt at airport security, contending with a software conflict that corrupted your file management system, or begging your family to stop opening those virus-carrying 'greeting cards' attached to emails, all computer owners are highly leveraged and highly vulnerable technology investors.

To move online security to the next level, there has to be fundamental resolve among consumers, government and business to quickly adopt a system where the individual has more control over how information about them is managed and shared. Our aim is to construct an open and widely accessible software framework that puts the individual at the centre of the identity management universe. With this framework in place, it will be easier for society to begin the migration to more secure online environments, where trusted networks can not only be easily formed, but effectively enforced. For in the end, security is not just technological, but social.

We're going to see more software acquisitions at higher valuations. Stocks naturally will trade higher when you raise the bar.

What we're seeing is a great deal of customization on country and industry levels. When Microsoft was developing its CRM, it made sure that it was built on a Web services architecture so that it can be easily adapted to specific local needs and requirements. We don't ship an out-of-the-box, property-management application, for instance, but those in real estate using the software can easily add apartment information without adding programming code.

When we'd have arguments over who has the best basic process for development, nobody wins. Rather than controlling the basic process framework, we (at IBM) can leverage what the open-source community does. And other software vendors can do the same around our processes.

When we heard the news this morning, it was clear to me we're moving up to the next level. Consolidation in the client-server computing industry is opening the door for software on demand.

We believe we're the first software company to do this.

What's really important about software development is implementing the features your customers ask for. That's what we've done with the addition of DVD burning and what we will continue to do in the future.

Universities and corporations lose hours of valuable information each day because it is too big a hassle and too expensive to capture that knowledge as it is exchanged. These large organizations are now realizing how the secure sharing of online presentations can help boost expertise, reduce travel and other costs, and recapture lost productivity. With EX Server software, that information is just a click away. Our enterprise customers tell us they are realizing a competitive advantage as they capture, process and access their most important asset -- organizational knowledge. EX Server software further improves their communication across division, campus or geographical boundaries for these distributed, sometimes global, organizations.

Usually, if we're going to use something long term, we buy it with Software Assurance, ... So the fact that they're doing a new product release isn't a significant concern to me.

Usually, business spending on software doesn't happen at the beginning of a recovery but once the recovery is undeniable.

Working together with a variety of Intel-verified consumer electronics devices, online services and software including movies, music, photos and games, VIIV technology will help users in a new era of entertainment choices, which will be easy to use with the provided remote control and will be powered by a suite of Intel technologies, including a dual-core processor, chipset, platform software and wired networking capabilities

With the market rapidly embracing the benefits of digital signage, and a growing interest in narrowcasting by advertisers, we are excited to announce the 2.0 release of our NEOCAST Media Server software to the marketplace. With the enhanced capabilities, customers will continue to enjoy the market leading digital signage features NEOCAST offers, plus have the needed assurance the solution will continue to evolve as new digital signage standards and demands emerge.

With the introduction of these new Windows Marketplace Feeds, average users will find it easy to stay up-to-date with Windows. Better yet, there's no middle man to go through; all the hardware and software update information comes directly from Microsoft. That's a true win-win situation.

With the introduction of the new Intel-based products it's important for companies to use the same version of Sophos Anti-Virus regardless of the type of Macs being used. Through its latest software for Mac OS X, Sophos continues to offer the highest level of virus protection to all Mac users.

We're extremely excited to have Exit as our partner in promoting ImagePhone2. This will allow us to distribute the software package to over 200,000 households annually, calculated on only five sales per year by each of Exit's 20,000 agents.

We're expecting a solid year for equipment and software spending. Businesses seem to have very optimistic plans for investment in 2006.

We're finding a lot of software companies with a lot of value.

We're investing in a wide range of models. The new kind of applications ISVs (independent software vendors) can make (with Windows Vista) will be dramatically different from what's possible with the Web application model. I think it's clearly differentiated.

We're getting ready to begin an audit of the technology program from A to Z -- staffing, equipment and software and how we utilize technology. Recommendations are due to the superintendent this spring.

We're focusing as much attention on software and the intellectual property that's lost in software as we are in entertainment in movies and sound on CDs and tape.

(Yahoo) is now so desperate over the fact that they are losing several experienced software engineers with years of experience in the mobile industry, that they are now taking the exact opposite legal position.