Karpodinis Software Quotes

Whatever way that we have in our head that we expect people to use a software, they'll find other interesting ways to use it that we didn't expect. ~ Dennis Crowley

One can expect the human race to continue attempting systems just within or just beyond our reach; and software systems are perhaps the most intricate and complex of man's handiworks. The management of this complex craft will demand our best use of new languages and systems, our best adaptation of proven engineering management methods, liberal doses of common sense, and a God-given humility to recognize our fallibility and limitations. ~ Fred Brooks

The Internet browser is the most susceptible to viruses. The browser is naive about downloading and executing software. Google is trying to help by releasing the Chrome browser as open source. ~ Vint Cerf

Software is the magic thing whose importance only goes up over time. ~ Bill Gates

Give your product a personality. 37signals may not sell the best project management software in the world, but it has personality. The 37signals team stands for something: uncompromising simplicity. Want an extra feature? Tough. If you want features, buy something else. ~ Neil Davidson

Software development is the process of creating a computer software.
It includes preparing a design, coding the program, and fixing the
bugs. The final goal of software development is to translate user
needs to software product, while continuously improving the team
and the process. ~ Paulo Caroli

With bundled machines you can throw away the hardware and keep the software, and it's still a good buy. ~ Adam Osborne

In 2011, the NASSCOM team introduced me to Aloke Bajpai, who, like others on his young team, cut his teeth working for Western technology companies but returned to India on a bet that he could start something - he just didn't know what. The result was Ixigo.com, a travel search service that can run on the cheapest cell phones and helps Indians book the lowest-cost fares, whether it is a farmer who wants to go by bus or train for a few rupees from Chennai to Bangalore or a millionaire who wants to go by plane to Paris. Ixigo is today the biggest travel search platform in India, with millions of users. To build it, Bajpai leveraged the supernova, using free open-source software, Skype, and cloud-based office tools such as Google Apps and social media marketing on Facebook. They "enabled us to grow so much faster with no money," he told me. It ~ Thomas L. Friedman

How Ironic, when you do business you create exceptions to create new opportunities, when you write code (do a job) you handle exception to make it clean. ~ Pushkar Saraf

The real fight is the fight of software developers, of the people who have been writing the software of the financial system. We call on them, in order for them to do what Wikileaks has done in the field of information. Decommission, rewrite, and change the course of the future. ~ Anonymous

The open source community is an example of the evolutionary processes we have been describing. The rules of the community establish a framework for competition, but do not specify or plan that software will result. ~ Yaneer Bar-Yam

I made my money with software - encoded knowledge without which few products and services can exist today - and so it seemed imperative that this would be the field where I would give something back. ~ Hasso Plattner

You can either have software quality or you can have pointer arithmetic, but you cannot have both at the same time. ~ Bertrand Meyer

Find the simplest model that is not a lie is the key to better software design. ~ David Parnas

Technical staff were fairly good at estimation but were poor at defending their estimates ~ Philip Metzger

Software development, like professional sports, has a way of making thirty-year-old men feel decrepit. ~ Neal Stephenson

The greatest risk we face in software development is that of overestimating our own knowledge. ~ Jim Highsmith

Companies that make keys, credit card companies, any company in the service business - anything to do with a consumer is probably a software company. ~ Michael J. Saylor

All the songs were written on guitar and then put into the computer, where I played around with different sounds I was hearing and what was available in the software. ~ Jamie Woon

Rachel looked uncomfortable. "My father is rarely around," she said, "but that doesn't mean he doesn't like to keep an eye on me. Last year, he put this parental spy software on all the home computers so he could monitor what I was doing." Ema said, "Yuck." "I know, right?" Ema shook her head and said, "Parents." I could see a softening between the two. It wasn't much. Softening might be too strong a word. Thawing might be more accurate. But it was there. "But the thing is, ~ Harlan Coben

That also means the antivirus software you are running on your own computer is likely only catching 5 percent of the emerging threats targeting your machine. If your body's own immune system had a batting average like that, you would be dead in a matter of hours. ~ Marc Goodman

Google has the business resources, global scale and platform reach to accelerate Nest growth across hardware, software and services for the home globally. ~ Tony Fadell

Cooperation is just like two pagodas - one hardware and one software. Combined, we can take the leadership position in the world. ~ Wen Jiabao

Releasing Linux versions has always been a matter of higher code quality, good software architecture, and technical interest for the platform. ~ Timothee Besset

I don't like creating software anymore. It's too exact. It's like karate; there's no room for error. ~ John Maeda

It seems certain that much of the success of Unix follows from the readability, modifiability, and portability of its software. ~ Dennis Ritchie

I feel lucky because earlier in my career, I found what I liked to do; it's build software that you see your friends using on the street, and they like it. ~ Dennis Crowley

The science and engineering of programming just isn't good enough to produce flawless software, and that isn't going to change anytime soon. The ~ Bruce Schneier

Our biological body itself is a form of hardware that needs re-programming through tantra like a new spiritual software which can release or unblock its potential. ~ Slavoj Zizek

If debugging is the process of removing software bugs, then programming must be the process of putting them in. ~ Edsger Dijkstra

Nature cannot be reprogrammed forever. Humans are not meant to run like software. You cannot hack the human condition. ~ Alex London

The difference between a great software guy and an okay software guy is huge. A great software guy is worth ten times an okay software guy. ~ Michael Lewis

Really great blogs do not take the place of great microprocessors. Great blogs do not replace great software. Lots and lots of blogs does not replace lots and lots of sales. ~ Larry Ellison

Just by making the architect role explicit, a team can effectively resolve many technical conflicts. ~ Yegor Bugayenko

Democracy is a continuous, open process of civility.
A democracy can never be "done"; updating democracy can never be over.

Democracy can be nothing else but a continuous process, because we use it to organize our life, and life is nothing but a continuous process.

Democracy can be compared to an operating system or an anti-virus software; if it does not get perpetually updated, it becomes obsolete very fast.

Trusting the updates or the "improvements" of democracy to the elected and the owned mass media is like trusting the updates of an anti-virus program to virus creators; it defeats the purpose of updates or improvements. ~ Haroutioun Bochnakian