Software Quotes

“Open source is a development methodology; free software is a social movement.”

“For us, the value of GNOME is that it is a platform that we can build on top of.”

“Postfix is my personal response to the Sendmail monopoly.”

“Most software today is very much like an Egyptian pyramid with millions of bricks piled on top of each other, with no structural integrity, but just done by brute force and thousands of slaves.”

“Software patents are a menace to innovation.”

“The days of building software internally for every little thing are gone.”

“With software, there are two possibilities: either the users control the program or the program controls the users.”

“To what extent should one trust a statement that a program is free of Trojan horses? Perhaps it is more important to trust the people who wrote the software.”

“At the end of the day, the GPL is a license that is designed to have a particular viral effect.”

“Every industry is being disrupted by software.”

“People who are really serious about software should make their own hardware.”

“Our civilization runs on software.”

“Adding manpower to a late software project makes it later.”

“The hardest part of building a software system is deciding precisely what to build.”

“Simplicity is a prerequisite for reliability.”

“The reason that it is good for there to be a free software movement is that the alternative is a world in which people are not free to create and share in the ways that they want to.”

“Is it possible that software is not like anything else, that it is meant to be discarded: that the whole point is to always see it as a soap bubble?”

“An open platform is a system that is extensible by outside developers.”

“Just as a program must be debugged, a specification must be validated.”

“Patents are like submarines. You can't see them, but you know they are there. And you know they are armed.”