#software

I got bitten by the free software bug in February of 1998 around the time of the Mozilla announcement. ↗

— Andy Hertzfeld

#around #bitten #bug #february #free

Power corrupts: What we mean by this is that, in the absence of language enforced guarantees (i.e. restrictions on the power of the language) mistakes (and abuses) will happen. This is the reason that garbage collection is good — the power of manual memory management is removed. Exactly the same principle applies to state — another kind of power. In this case it means that we need to be very wary of any language that even permits state, regardless of how much it discourages its use (obvious examples are ML and Scheme). The bottom line is that the more powerful a language (i.e. the more that is possible within the language), the harder it is to understand systems constructed in it. ↗

— Ben Mosele

#design

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 own theory is that we are in the middle of a dramatic and broad technological and economic shift in which software companies are poised to take over large swathes of the economy. ↗

— Marc Andreessen

#companies #dramatic #economic #economy #large

Diaspora starts about a thousand years from now. Most of human civilisation has moved inside computers; essentially, a major branch of our descendants consists of conscious software. ↗

— Greg Egan

#branch #civilisation #computers #conscious #consists

I really think it is amazing that people actually buy software. ↗

— Bill Budge

#amazing #buy #i #people #really

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

— Miguel de Icaza

#else #every #going #infringe #likely

Twenty-five years ago, the notion was you could create a general problem-solver software that could solve problems in many different domains. That just turned out to be totally wrong. ↗

— Howard Gardner

#could #create #different #domains #general

Since when has the world of computer software design been about what people want? This is a simple question of evolution. The day is quickly coming when every knee will bow down to a silicon fist, and you will all beg your binary gods for mercy. ↗

— Bill Gates

#been #beg #binary #bow #coming

Whether it's Google or Apple or free software, we've got some fantastic competitors and it keeps us on our toes. ↗

— Bill Gates

#competitors #fantastic #free #free software #google