#software

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

— Arthur C. Clarke

#computer #frustrating #hardware #manuals #reading

We decided that the French could never write user-friendly software because they're so rude. ↗

— Doug Coupland

#could #decided #french #never #rude

Twenty-five years ago, the notion was you could create a general problem-solver software that could solve problems in many different domains. That just turned out to be totally wrong. ↗

— Howard Gardner

#could #create #different #domains #general

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

— Tim Berners-Lee

#compiler #engineer #good #interchangeable #interpreter

Limit use of shareware and public domain software to systems without fixed disks. If you do use them on fixed disks, allocate separate subdirectories... Public domain or shareware software should never be placed in the root directory. ↗

— John McAfee

#directory #disks #domain #fixed #limit

Back in my day, I would probe by hand. Now you can get commercial software that does the job for you. ↗

— Kevin Mitnick

#commercial #day #does #get #hand

I think malware is a significant threat because the mitigation, like antivirus software, hasn't evolved to a point to really mitigate the risk to a reasonable degree. ↗

— Kevin Mitnick

#degree #evolved #hasn #i #i think

Venture capitalists are like lemmings jumping on the software bandwagon. ↗

— Adam Osborne

#capitalists #jumping #like #software #venture

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

— Adam Osborne

#buy #good #hardware #keep #machines

You know, IBM was almost knocked out of the box by other types of computer software and manufacturing. ↗

— Roy Romer

#box #computer #ibm #knocked #know