As a rule software systems do not work well until they have been used and have failed repeatedly in real applications.

Software comes from heaven when you have good hardware.

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

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

I just became one with my browser software.

Shareware tends to combine the worst of commercial software with the worst of free software.

We're entering a new world in which data may be more important than software.

Reading computer manuals without the hardware is as frustrating as reading manuals without the software.

It's hardware that makes a machine fast. It's software that makes a fast machine slow.

The days when a car aficionado could repair his or her own car are long past due primarily to the high software content.

Perhaps the single most dramatic example of this phenomenon of software eating a traditional business is the suicide of Borders and corresponding rise of Amazon.

Of course all of the software I write runs on Linux that's the beauty of standards and of cross-platform code. I don't have to run your OS and you don't have to run mine and we can use the same applications anyway!

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.

The days when you needed amazing Silicon Graphics machines to run animation software are gone now.

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