One of the biggest problems that software developers face is that technology changes rapidly. It is very hard to stay current.
Perhaps the single most dramatic example of this phenomenon of software eating a traditional business is the suicide of Borders and corresponding rise of Amazon.
Companies that make keys, credit card companies, any company in the service business - anything to do with a consumer is probably a software company.
Software is becoming no different than a videotape or a record album or a paperback book, and not all of us are ready for that change.
We're entering a new world in which data may be more important than software.
The critical thing in developing software is not the program, it's the design. It is translating understanding of user needs into something that can be realized as a computer program.
Health care and education, in my view, are next up for fundamental software-based transformation.
I got a degree in math, from not a good school in Texas, and then I went to work as a software engineer. Just not glamorous at all.
You get the software you pay for. In every sense. To the nth degree. That's the way the world works.
By being able to write a genome and plug it into an organism, the software, if you will, changes the hardware.
A lot of people who work on open-source software don't mind making money elsewhere. They aren't anticommercial.
In open-source in general, the power lies in connecting the author of the software directly to users, eliminating the middleman.
Every young person gets so excited about new software packages and new technology.
More and more major businesses and industries are being run on software and delivered as online services - from movies to agriculture to national defense.
My reply is: the software has no known bugs, therefore it has not been updated.
In almost every job now, people use software and work with information to enable their organisation to operate more effectively.
I think it is important for software to avoiding imposing a cognitive style on workers and their work.
Enterprise is hard work. You have to integrate the client with the optimized systems of all the servers and software.
He was free, free in every way, free to behave like a fool or a machine, free to accept, free to refuse, free to equivocate; to marry, to give up the game, to drag this death weight about with him for years to come. He could do what he liked, no one ...
He who is a slave of truth is a free man.
In order to understand what they need to understand, in order to write what they write, they have to be free. And yet, they aren't ever free. They are not free because they are not free of the constrictions their art puts on them.
