"Software is eating the world."
Marc Andreessen
Software Quotes
17 FAMOUS QUOTES · SOFTWARE
Software Quotes
Read 17 famous software quotes from great authors, with links to more quote topics.
"Every company is now a software company."
Satya Nadella
"Software and cathedrals are much the same – first we build them, then we pray."
Sam Redwine
"It's hardware that makes a machine fast. It's software that makes a fast machine slow."
Craig Bruce
“If we want users to like our software, we should design it to behave like a likeable person.”
Alan Cooper
“Simplicity is prerequisite for reliability.”
Edsger Dijkstra
“Premature optimization is the root of all evil.”
Donald Knuth
“People who are really serious about software should make their own hardware.”
Alan Kay
“In short, software is eating the world.”
Marc Andreessen
“It's hardware that makes a machine fast. It's software that makes a fast machine slow.”
Craig Bruce
“Adding manpower to a late software project makes it later.”
Fred Brooks
“Plan to throw one away; you will, anyhow.”
Fred Brooks
“Software is getting slower more rapidly than hardware becomes faster.”
Niklaus Wirth
“Make it work, make it right, make it fast.”
Kent Beck
“Testing shows the presence, not the absence of bugs.”
Edsger Dijkstra
“Every company is now a software company.”
Satya Nadella
“The function of good software is to make the complex appear to be simple.”
Grady Booch