#software

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

— Marc Andreessen

#coming #companies #every #industry #need

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

— Wietse Venema

#bugs #known #reply #software #therefore

You need to look no further than Apple's iPhone to see how fast brilliantly written software presented on a beautifully designed device with a spectacular user interface will throw all the accepted notions about pricing, billing platforms and brand loyalty right out the window. ↗

— Edgar Bronfman, Jr.

#accepted #apple #beautifully #billing #brand

'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. ↗

— Joe Clark

#bad #captions #closed #course #create

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

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