#software

When I write software, I know that it will fail, either due to my own mistake, or due to some other cause. ↗

— Wietse Venema

#cause #due #either #fail #i

The Postfix security model is based on keeping software simple and stupid. ↗

— Wietse Venema

#keeping #model #postfix #security #simple

Well, user feedback was excellent. Even when the software didn't work at all, there were few people who were avid users, and there were people who were just sending excellent feedback and excellent ideas. ↗

— Shawn Fanning

#even #excellent #feedback #few #few people

The 1980s will seem like a walk in the park when compared to new global challenges, where annual productivity increases of 6% may not be enough. A combination of software, brains, and running harder will be needed to bring that percentage up to 8% or 9%. ↗

— Jack Welch

#brains #bring #challenges #combination #compared

Indeed, the woes of Software Engineering are not due to lack of tools, or proper management, but largely due to lack of sufficient technical competence. ↗

— Niklaus Wirth

#due #engineering #indeed #lack #largely

Modern records are all made with virtually identical gear, software plug-ins and everything. Everybody wants everything to sound like the last thing that was popular because they're chasing their tails. ↗

— Dweezil Zappa

#chasing #everybody #everything #gear #identical

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

None of our competitors have ever made two systems that run the same software. ↗

— Trip Hawkins

#ever #made #none #our #run

We also had good software in the key categories and more focus on the gameplaying capability, so more of the marketing effort was targeted at game customers. ↗

— Trip Hawkins

#capability #categories #customers #effort #focus

Every piece of software written today is likely going to infringe on someone else's patent. ↗

— Miguel de Icaza

#else #every #going #infringe #likely