#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

For the average home-user, anti-virus software is a must. ↗

— Kevin Mitnick

#average #must #software

I think it is important for software to avoiding imposing a cognitive style on workers and their work. ↗

— Edward Tufte

#cognitive #i #i think #important #imposing

Why shouldn't we give our teachers a license to obtain software, all software, any software, for nothing? Does anyone demand a licensing fee, each time a child is taught the alphabet? ↗

— William Gibson

#any #anyone #child #demand #does

My first company, Pure Software, was exciting and innovative in the first few years and bureaucratic and painful in the last few before it got acquired. The problem was we tried to systemize everything and set up perfect procedures. ↗

— Reed Hastings

#before #bureaucratic #company #everything #exciting

In short, software is eating the world. ↗

— Marc Andreessen

#short #software #world

More and more major businesses and industries are being run on software and delivered as online services - from movies to agriculture to national defense. ↗

— Marc Andreessen

#being #businesses #defense #delivered #industries

Over the next 10 years, I expect many more industries to be disrupted by software, with new world-beating Silicon Valley companies doing the disruption in more cases than not. ↗

— Marc Andreessen

#companies #disrupted #disruption #doing #expect

There is a constant need for new systems and new software. ↗

— Marc Andreessen

#constant need #need #new #software #systems

TV and the press have always functioned according to the same sets of rules and technical standards. But the Internet is based on software. And anybody can write a new piece of software on the Internet that years later a billion people are using. ↗

— Marc Andreessen

#always #anybody #based #billion #internet