#software

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

— Mike Shinoda

#computer #days #different #different ways #instruments

Shareware tends to combine the worst of commercial software with the worst of free software. ↗

— Linus Torvalds

#combine #commercial #free #free software #shareware

There is one major problem with anti-virus software: It needs updating. Users cannot be relied upon to have even the anti-virus software in the first place, let alone be able or willing to pay for the updates. ↗

— Glenn Turner

#alone #anti-virus #cannot #even #first

Software Engineering might be science; but that's not what I do. I'm a hacker, not an engineer. ↗

— Jamie Zawinski

#engineering #hacker #i #i do #might

More importantly, our software worked. I don't just mean that it didn't bump, or that it performed according to the written specifications, or that it was efficient in producing reports. It really worked ↗

— Eliyahu M. Goldratt

#software #business

The lesson to be learned from this is that it is often undesirable to go for the right thing first. It is better to get half of the right thing available so that it spreads like a virus. Once people are hooked on it, take the time to improve it to 90% of the right thing. ↗

— Richard P. Gabriel

#design

Truth can only be found in one place: the code. ↗

— Robert C. Martin

#software-craftmanship #software-design #software-engineering #design

It should be noted that no ethically -trained software engineer would ever consent to write a DestroyBaghdad procedure. Basic professional ethics would instead require him to write a DestroyCity procedure, to which Baghdad could be given as a parameter. ↗

— Nathaniel S. Borenstein

#programming #software #humor

Defect-free software does not exist. ↗

— Wietse Venema

#does #exist #free software #software

In a previous life I wrote the software that controlled my physics experiments. That software had to deal with all kinds of possible failures in equipment. That is probably where I learned to rely on multiple safety nets inside and around my systems. ↗

— Wietse Venema

#controlled #deal #equipment #experiments #failures