Top 465 Software Quotes

Words matter. These are the best Software Quotes from famous people such as Jon Evans, Arvind Gupta, Bill Gates, Niklas Zennstrom, Masayoshi Son, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.

I've been a software engineer, a novelist, a journalist

I’ve been a software engineer, a novelist, a journalist, and a manager – and managing developers is easily the trickiest thing I’ve ever done.
Jon Evans
Biology is the most powerful technology ever created. DNA is software, protein are hardware, cells are factories.
Arvind Gupta
The way to be successful in the software world is to come up with breakthrough software, and so whether it’s Microsoft Office or Windows, its pushing that forward. New ideas, surprising the marketplace, so good engineering and good business are one in the same.
Bill Gates
Then people started using it more and more and it became the most downloaded software on the internet.
Niklas Zennstrom
People usually compare the computer to the head of the human being. I would say that hardware is the bone of the head, the skull. The semiconductor is the brain within the head. The software is the wisdom. And data is the knowledge.
Masayoshi Son
We support about 5,000 non-governmental organizations (NGOs) with software, training, and technical support. We provide our software at virtually no cost to them, and they’re lighting up the world with what they do.
Jack Dangermond
I actually think the one who is underestimated in terms of impact he’s had on society is Bill Gates. The reason is that with the innovation of software, he really allowed the computer revolution to take hold.
Fabrice Grinda
If you, or any public-spirited programmer, wanted to figure out what the software on your machine is really doing, tough luck. It’s illegal to reverse engineer the source code of commercial software to find out how it works.
Clive Thompson
One would expect that a surge of new automation opportunities in highly paid work would catalyze a surge of corporate investment in computer hardware and software. Instead, the opposite occurred.
David Autor
The methodologies and best practices used to develop software can be applied successfully to any challenge in life.
Walter O’Brien
I discovered shooting and filmmaking around the time all of the software became affordable to anyone with a PC.
Seth Gordon
Software innovation, like almost every other kind of innovation, requires the ability to collaborate and share ideas with other people, and to sit down and talk with customers and get their feedback and understand their needs.
Bill Gates
Accountants, machinists, medical technicians, even software writers that write the software for ‘machines’ are being displaced without upscaled replacement jobs. Retrain, rehire into higher paying and value-added jobs? That may be the political myth of the modern era. There aren’t enough of those jobs.
Bill Gross
I’m considering ‘Dark Souls 3’ to be the big closure on the series. That’s not just limited to me, but From Software and myself together want to aggressively make new things in the future.
Hidetaka Miyazaki
It gives you great pleasure to know that millions of developers, day to day, make their living using the software that you created.
Anders Hejlsberg
I might seem biased, but I use Evernote every day. It came to me through my readers, who I’d asked for software recommendations via Twitter and Facebook. For seemingly every function, the answer was ‘Man, you have to use Evernote.’
Tim Ferriss
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
From logos to software – you name it, the Chinese have stolen it – and they’ll keep stealing it, if left unchecked.
Trish Regan
Traditional TV will have to innovate their TV delivery software in new ways beyond just offering their content in an app in order to change the viewing erosion of TV.
Mark Cuban
Everything seems set up for success in digital journalism – money, eyeballs, software, brands.
George Packer
Adding manpower to a late software project makes it later.
Fred Brooks
The common thread for everything I do is this idea of a Web-services architecture. What does that mean? It means taking components of software and systems and having them be self-describing, so that you can aim them, ask them what their capabilities are, and communicate with them using a standard protocol.
Bill Gates
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
We’ve never much liked the idea of charging a participation tax, a phrase we coined to represent what it feels like when a software company charges you more money for each additional user. Participation taxes discourage usage across a company.
Jason Fried
What Nintendo has to do is make software that takes advantage of the Wii MotionPlus and make efforts to make the public understand the benefits of the Wii MotionPlus controls.
Satoru Iwata
Reading computer manuals without the hardware is as frustrating as reading sex manuals without the software.
Arthur C. Clarke
Games take years to make, and it’s important that when we launch, it can’t just be a great launch catalog and then a desert for a really long time. To be honest, for a lot of developers, they’d rather not be competing at launch with all this other software.
Palmer Luckey
Karma, memory, and desire are just the software of the soul. It’s conditioning that the soul undergoes in order to create experience. And it’s a cycle. In most people, the cycle is a conditioned response. They do the same things over and over again.
Deepak Chopra
We shifted our philosophy from being a computer mapping group that would support planners to the idea of building actual software that would be well engineered. Because at that time, our software was not well-engineered at all; it was basically built with project funding and for project work, largely by ourselves.
Jack Dangermond
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
Free software is software that respects your freedom and the social solidarity of your community. So it’s free as in freedom.
Richard Stallman
The only real mystery in the stories of political plagi

The only real mystery in the stories of political plagiarism is its durability in an age of Turnitin and other scanning software that can protect an author from his own mistakes, intentional or otherwise.
Evan Osnos
How we understand our own selves and how we work with our DNA software has implications that will affect everything from vaccine development to new approaches to antibiotics, new sources of food, new sources of chemicals, even potentially new sources of energy.
Craig Venter
My background isn’t in social software; it’s in online community, social networks, personal publishing, blogging, self-expression on the Web. I got on the Internet in the 1980s, and the magic moment for me arose from my being a literature geek, especially Dante and Shakespeare.
Caterina Fake
The challenge for what everybody’s seeing in deep learning – the software richness is really quite high. In training, you have to wait days and weeks before it comes back to tell you whether your model works or not. And in the beginning, they all don’t work.
Jensen Huang
I wrote a piece of software in 1998 that created fictional weather.
Daniel Suarez
To me, it looks more or less like the hardware designers have run out of ideas and that they’re trying to pass the blame for the future demise of Moore’s Law to the software writers by giving us machines that work faster only on a few key benchmarks!
Donald Knuth
Fighting patents one by one will never eliminate the danger of software patents, any more than swatting mosquitoes will eliminate malaria.
Richard Stallman
I get so many requests for interviews. If I talk to everyone, we can’t do our job with our customers and work on our software. It would be hard to stay focused.
Judith Faulkner
We’re convinced that Frisco Square is the perfect environment for Gearbox Software’s new headquarters and we are eager to break ground, build out and move in so that we may join the community and bring everything we can to the city as a Frisco business and as Frisco citizens.
Randy Pitchford
When people heard id Software’s being acquired, everybody just assumed it would be Activision or EA. Why would we even consider going with a publisher that wasn’t of that same size?
John Carmack
Whether it’s Google or Apple or free software, we’ve got some fantastic competitors and it keeps us on our toes.
Bill Gates
Many casinos in the United States already use facial recognition software to identify undesirables, apparently with a fair degree of success.
Ronen Bergman
It’s probably fair to say that the ratio of time our Connector developers spend in the debugger versus the Emacs buffer is higher than with most software.
Nat Friedman
I can do some vocals in England; I can come across to LA You can do various versions – replace this, replace that. You can use software that almost makes the record for you.
Roland Orzabal
Writing genetic code like we do software will usher in a completely new way of living for all of us. When this happens, our society will be as fundamentally changed as we have seen from the invention of computers.
Arvind Gupta
Free software is software that respects your freedom and the social solidarity of your community. So it’s free as in freedom.
Richard Stallman
When Paul Allen and I started Microsoft over 30 years ago, we had big dreams about software. We had dreams about the impact it could have.
Bill Gates
I joined Baidu in 2014 to work on AI. Since then, Baidu’s AI group has grown to roughly 1,300 people, which includes the 300-person Baidu Research. Our AI software is used every day by hundreds of millions of people.
Andrew Ng