#software

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

I discovered shooting and filmmaking around the time all of the software became affordable to anyone with a PC. ↗

— Seth Gordon

#anyone #around #became #discovered #filmmaking

Our democracy, our constitutional framework is really a kind of software for harnessing the creativity and political imagination for all of our people. The American democratic system was an early political version of Napster. ↗

— Al Gore

#constitutional #creativity #democracy #democratic #democratic system

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

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