Top 465 Software Quotes

I really think it is amazing that people actually buy software.
Bill Budge
There is a lot of interest in the arts, music, theatre, filmmaking, engineering, architecture and software design. I think we have now transitioned the modern-day version of the entrepreneur into the creative economy.
John Baldacci
A minimum precaution: keep your anti-malware protections up to date, and install security updates for all your software as soon as they arrive.
Barton Gellman
Any editing, software work, and mail is done in this exported Plan 9.
Dennis Ritchie
The problem is, in software design, often the consequences of your decisions don’t become apparent for years.
Kent Beck
Qmail out of the box works fine, so people will want to use it regardless of licensing restrictions, even when the software does not ship with their system software.
Wietse Venema
As every new breed of virus is conceived, created and released into the wild, another small change is made to the anti-virus software to combat the new threat.
Glenn Turner
At Microsoft, the magic of software is used to take on

At Microsoft, the magic of software is used to take on very interesting challenges.
Jeff Raikes
Pop belonged to more musical people in earlier times, but we’ve sort of gotten away from that. Now it’s software people. I kind of feel like reclaiming it is in order.
Dave Sitek
Predation is part of the everyday life of capitalism, in sectors as mainstream as pharmaceuticals, software and oil – where people’s money, their data, their time and their attention are routinely taken in fundamentally asymmetrical exchanges.
Geoff Mulgan
I always knew I wanted to be an entrepreneur. I started my own software company in high school and went to college to study entrepreneurship.
Marc Benioff
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
Trees and bones are constantly reforming themselves along lines of stress. This algorithm has been put into a software program that’s now being used to make bridges lightweight, to make building beams lightweight.
Janine Benyus
In software, it’s easy to understand what people want, and it’s hard to build. Internet stuff is super easy to build, but it’s hard to know what people want.
Nick Hanauer
When we shipped ‘Borderlands 2,’ we didn’t ship it with a plan of how the level cap was going to increase. We didn’t have any software built or strategy in place.
Randy Pitchford
I think ‘Shark Tank’ is targeting companies that are really trying to raise their very first dollar. A lot of them aren’t really tech focused. We’re definitely going after companies that are building real technology, either software or hardware, they probably have raised a couple hundred thousand already.
Dave McClure
Software is like entropy. It is difficult to grasp, weighs nothing, and obeys the second law of thermodynamics; i.e. it always increases.
Norman Ralph Augustine
However, writing software without defects is not sufficient. In my experience, it is at least as difficult to write software that is safe – that is, software that behaves reasonably under adverse conditions.
Wietse Venema
If you were a new guy at ILM, they put you on the night crew – my shift was from 7 P.M. to about 5 A.M. In my free time, I was working on an idea with my older brother, a software engineer getting his doctorate at the University of Michigan. Ultimately, it developed into Photoshop.
John Knoll
What we’re looking at is a future where cars will be comfortable and safe and offer the luxuries of both home and office. That means lots of sensors and software, as well as the critical safety systems to protect the car’s information from hackers.
Dinesh Paliwal
Magicians are typically introverted; they don’t tend to work with others, but I work with software programmers, composers, designers, so it’s a very diverse group and the result is always more interesting than something I could have done by myself.
Marco Tempest
I’m not interested in offering software for free of charge. That’s because I myself am one of the game developers who, in the future, wants to make efforts so the value of the software will be appreciated by the consumers.
Satoru Iwata
I buy lots of my software over the net from the States.
Jay Sean
I’ve spent a career working in tech as a software engineer. And I believe regulated markets are the best way to build and deliver innovative products.
Brianna Wu
So what I was essentially doing was, I compromised the confidentiality of their proprietary software to advance my agenda of becoming the best at breaking through the lock.
Kevin Mitnick
It is sad that so many designers don’t know how to make. CAD software can make a bad design look palatable! It is sad that four years can be spent on a 3D design course without making anything! People who are great at designing and making have a great advantage.
Jonathan Ive
Apple already had everyone’s billing information from iTunes… you could buy things just by typing in your password… That, for the first time, brought very, very easy payment to the modern software world. That, more than anything, is why there is a business for paid apps.
Marco Arment
Corporations have been killing the risk-taking and exploration that makes software great. They have tried to rip the soul out of development.
Brian Behlendorf
Of course, I have my own limits as to how much game software I can take care of at any one time.
Shigeru Miyamoto
When I was 24, I co-founded a company called Athenahealth which built the first Web-based software and back-office service suite for doctors’ offices.
Todd Park
From Software believes all the things we have learned in the past titles can be best reflected in the future only by starting work on a new franchise or series. That’s the philosophy behind us trying to make a decision about leaving the ‘Dark Souls’ franchise.
Hidetaka Miyazaki
The more money Automattic makes, the more we invest into Free and Open Source software that belongs to everybody and services to make that software sing.
Matt Mullenweg
I’m kind of a retired software engineer. I don’t write code anymore.
Paul Allen
Even more amazing than modern technology is our opportunity to access information directly from Heaven, without hardware, software, or monthly service fees.
Russell M. Nelson
I think it is important for software to avoiding imposing a cognitive style on workers and their work.
Edward Tufte
The critical thing in developing software is not the program, it’s the design. It is translating understanding of user needs into something that can be realized as a computer program.
Mitch Kapor
I don’t like creating software anymore. It’s too exact. It’s like karate; there’s no room for error.
John Maeda
The reality of most software development is that the consequences of failure are simply nonexistent.
Dan Kaminsky
The 1980s will seem like a walk in the park when compar

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
Software eventually and necessarily gained the same respect as any other discipline.
Margaret H. Hamilton
Health-assessment software such as CareEvolution’s ‘Safer Covid’ tool can combine multiple health factors to evaluate a person’s total risk of contracting Covid or suffering a bad outcome.
Scott Gottlieb
I simply can’t buy as much of some stocks such as Detection Systems or United Education & Software as I’d like because there just aren’t all that many shares available.
Louis Navellier
Facial recognition software is already quite accurate in measuring unchanging and unique ratios between facial features that identify you as you. It’s like a fingerprint.
Jan Chipchase
Enterprise is hard work. You have to integrate the client with the optimized systems of all the servers and software.
Samuel J. Palmisano
Now with our Software Developer Kit (SDK), any developer can embed Emotion AI into the apps, games, devices, and digital experiences they are building, so that these can sense human emotion and adapt. This approach is rapidly driving more ubiquitous use of Emotion AI across a number of different industries.
Rana el Kaliouby
In software and many other online markets, even dominant firms face potential threats because of the low costs for competitors to enter those markets. Threats more easily emerge because of better or newer technologies leapfrogging older ones.
Marvin Ammori
There’s not a long track record of people leaving professional sports to become a software developer.
Curt Schilling
Originally, I was in both software and in online computing. The first innovation really was sort of at that time that we’re marrying the telephone and the computer so that people wouldn’t have to drive to the computer center. We didn’t have $1,000 computers.
Sam Wyly
Within the coming years, disrupting the Bitcoin network will become increasingly more difficult as Bitcoin wallet software and the protocol become more mature and resilient.
Brian Armstrong
Life is a DNA software system.
Craig Venter
GoPro’s capture devices and Kolor’s software will combine to deliver exciting and highly accessible solutions for capturing, creating, and sharing spherical content.
Nick Woodman
For us to create unique experiences that other companies cannot, the best possible option for us is to be able to develop hardware that can realize unique software experiences.
Satoru Iwata
It has occurred to me that if people really knew how software got written, I’m not sure they’d give their money to a bank or get on an airplane ever again.
Ellen Ullman
I know about the tech industry in that I follow what apps are hot and software development. I know my way around different browsers. I know how to restart a computer.
T. J. Miller
Every new HubSpot employee has to go through training to learn how to use the software. That’s a good idea, and it also keeps me from having to worry about what I’m supposed to be doing here or why Cranium, who hired me, still has never come by to say hello or talk about what he wants me to work on.
Daniel Lyons