#software

I'm sorry that we have to have a Washington presence. We thrived during our first 16 years without any of this. I never made a political visit to Washington and we had no people here. It wasn't on our radar screen. We were just making great software. ↗

— Bill Gates

#during #first #great #had #here

I was lucky to be involved and get to contribute to something that was important, which is empowering people with software. ↗

— Bill Gates

#empowering #get #i #important #involved

The only thing I understand deeply, because in my teens I was thinking about it, and every year of my life, is software. So I'll never be hands-on on anything except software. ↗

— Bill Gates

#anything #because #deeply #every #except

Now, you can just get a laptop, get some software, put a microphone on it and make a record. You have to know how to do it. It does help if you've had 35 or 40 years of experience in the studio. But, it still levels the playing field so artists can record their own stuff. ↗

— Roger McGuinn

#does #experience #field #get #had

Is it possible that software is not like anything else, that it is meant to be discarded: that the whole point is to always see it as a soap bubble? ↗

— Alan Perlis

#anything #bubble #discarded #else #like

For music, unlike a $500 software program, people are paying a buck or two a song, and it's those dollars and pennies that have to add up to pay for not just the cost of that song, but the investment in the next song. ↗

— Hilary Rosen

#buck #cost #dollars #investment #just

The software patent problem is not limited to Mono. Software patents affect everyone writing software today. ↗

— Miguel de Icaza

#everyone #limited #mono #patent #patents

So far, Indian companies have focused more on customer application. This needs to shift to packaged software for sectors such as banking and financial services. ↗

— Sanjay Kumar

#banking #companies #customer #far #financial

The days when you needed amazing Silicon Graphics machines to run animation software are gone now. ↗

— Dave Rowntree

#animation #days #gone #graphics #machines

Digital art software has empowered both the painterly side of photographers, and the photographer side of painters. ↗

— Buffy Sainte-Marie

#both #digital #empowered #painterly #painters