#software

People enjoy the interaction on the Internet, and the feeling of belonging to a group that does something interesting: that's how some software projects are born. ↗

— Linus Torvalds

#born #does #enjoy #feeling #group

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

— Bill Budge

#amazing #buy #i #people #really

Red Carpet Enterprise has been really well received since one guy can install it in about an hour, and it makes it trivial to deal with software management issues like deploying updates and creating standard package sets for your various machines. ↗

— Nat Friedman

#been #carpet #creating #deal #deploying

Maintaining a consistent platform also helps improve product support - a significant problem in the software industry. ↗

— Bill Gates

#consistent #helps #improve #industry #maintaining

Writing software that's safe even in the presence of bugs makes the challenge even more interesting. ↗

— Wietse Venema

#challenge #even #interesting #makes #more

Software is like sex: it's better when it's free. ↗

— Linus Torvalds

#free #like #sex #software

I was trying to figure out what to do next, I'd been accumulating ideas for productivity tools - software people could use every day, particularly to help organize their lives. ↗

— Mitch Kapor

#could #day #every #every day #figure

People who are really serious about software should make their own hardware. ↗

— Alan Kay

#about #hardware #make #own #people

Most software today is very much like an Egyptian pyramid with millions of bricks piled on top of each other, with no structural integrity, but just done by brute force and thousands of slaves. ↗

— Alan Kay

#brute #brute force #done #each #egyptian

A lot of people who work on open-source software don't mind making money elsewhere. They aren't anticommercial. ↗

— Jimmy Wales

#lot #making #making money #mind #money