Software Quotes

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

“It's important to have free and open source software to be able to control your own technical environment.”

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

“The complexity of a software system is an essential property, not an accidental one.”

“The secret to building large apps is 'Don't do it.' Instead, build components.”

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

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

“Every industry is being disrupted by software.”

“I think the future of enterprise software is vertical specialization.”

“The complexity of software is an essential property, not an accidental one.”

“Free software is a matter of liberty, not price. To understand the concept, you should think of 'free' as in 'free speech,' not as in 'free beer'.”

“Proprietary software is an injustice.”

“The free software movement is a political movement which happens to use software as its domain.”

“Copyleft is a general method for making a program free software and requiring all modified and extended versions of the program to be free software as well.”

“The GNU Project was conceived in 1983 as a way of bringing back the cooperative spirit that had prevailed in the computing community in earlier days.”

“The X server has to be the biggest program I've ever seen that doesn't do anything for you.”

“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.”

“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.”

“We're building a world where the infrastructure of our lives is software.”

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