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software
«Software is like sex: it's better when it's free.»
Author: Linus Torvalds
(Computer engineer, Programmer)
| About:
Computers,
Software
| Keywords:
software, the 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?»
Author: William Gibson
| About:
Software
| Keywords:
alphabet, alphabets, fee, license, licensing, licensing fee, software
«There are no significant bugs in our released software that any significant number of users want fixed»
Author: Bill Gates
(Entrepreneur, Founder)
| About:
Software
| Keywords:
bugging, bugs, fixed, released, significant, software, The Bug, the software, users
«Software suppliers are trying to make their software packages more 'user-friendly' Their best approach, so far, has been to take all the old brochures, and stamp the words, 'user-friendly' on the cover»
Author: Bill Gates
(Entrepreneur, Founder)
| About:
Software
| Keywords:
approach, brochure, cover, friendly, On the Cover, packaged, packages, packaging, software, stamp, supplier, suppliers, the software, user-friendly, user
«The vision is really that in the information age the microprocessor-based machine, the PC, along with great software, can become sort of the ultimate tool dealing with not just text, but numbers and pictures, and eventually, even difficult things lik»
Author: Bill Gates
(Entrepreneur, Founder)
| About:
Vision
| Keywords:
Information Age, lik, microprocessor, software, text, The Vision
«So the vision of Microsoft is pretty simple. It changed a couple years ago. For the first 25 years of the company, it was a personal computer on every desk and in every home. And it was a very good vision; very rare for a company to be able to stick with something like that for 25 years. The reason we changed it was simply that it became acceptable. . . . And so as we stepped back and looked at what we were trying to do with the programming model, turning the Internet into the fabric for distributed computing, getting your information to replicate in a very invisible way so that it was available to you everywhere, thinking of this programming model spanning all the different devices, we changed to the mission statement we have now, which is empowering people through great software anytime, any place and on any device.»
Author: Bill Gates
(Entrepreneur, Founder)
| About:
Internet
| Keywords:
acceptable, become available, compute, computer program, computing, computing device, desk, device, devices, distributed, empowering, fabric, Microsoft, mission, mission statement, personal computer, personal computers, programming, replicate, replicates, replicating, software, spanning, statement, stepped, stick with, The Mission, The Vision
«Software is usually accompanied by documentation in the form of big fat scary manuals that nobody ever reads. In fact, for the past five years most of the manuals shipped with software products have actually been copies of Stephen King's The Stand with new covers pasted on.»
Author: Dave Barry
(Humorist, Writer)
| About:
Software
| Keywords:
accompanied, copies, covers, documentation, manuals, paste, pasted, products, reads, scary, shipped, software, The Manual, The Stand
«The suddenness of the leap from hardware to software cannot but produce a period of anarchy and collapse, especially in the developed countries.»
Author: Marshall McLuhan
(Educator, Social Reformer, Writer)
| About:
Software
| Keywords:
anarchy, collapse, developing countries, hardware, leap, software, suddenness