#software

The challenge with Postfix, or with any piece of software, is to update software without introducing problems. ↗

— Wietse Venema

#challenge #introducing #piece #postfix #problems

Companies in every industry need to assume that a software revolution is coming. ↗

— Marc Andreessen

#coming #companies #every #industry #need

On the back end, software programming tools and Internet-based services make it easy to launch new global software-powered start-ups in many industries - without the need to invest in new infrastructure and train new employees. ↗

— Marc Andreessen

#easy #employees #end #global #industries

The days when a car aficionado could repair his or her own car are long past, due primarily to the high software content. ↗

— Marc Andreessen

#car #content #could #days #due

There is no neat distinction between operating system software and the software that runs on top of it. ↗

— Jim Allchin

#distinction #neat #operating #operating system #runs

My own theory is that we are in the middle of a dramatic and broad technological and economic shift in which software companies are poised to take over large swathes of the economy. ↗

— Marc Andreessen

#companies #dramatic #economic #economy #large

Perhaps the single most dramatic example of this phenomenon of software eating a traditional business is the suicide of Borders and corresponding rise of Amazon. ↗

— Marc Andreessen

#borders #business #corresponding #dramatic #eating

Qualified software engineers, managers, marketers and salespeople in Silicon Valley can rack up dozens of high-paying, high-upside job offers any time they want, while national unemployment and underemployment is sky high. ↗

— Marc Andreessen

#dozens #engineers #high #high-paying #job

Software is like entropy. It is difficult to grasp, weighs nothing, and obeys the second law of thermodynamics; i.e. it always increases. ↗

— Norman Ralph Augustine

#difficult #entropy #grasp #i #increases

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

— Wietse Venema

#bugs #known #reply #software #therefore