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.
Yahoo is free, it's fast and it's Web-centric. AOL is slow, it costs money and requires proprietary software.
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.
For whatever reason somebody can be convinced to buy a PC, it opens up a whole new market for all of us in the software business.
As a rule, software systems do not work well until they have been used, and have failed repeatedly, in real applications.
The days when a car aficionado could repair his or her own car are long past, due primarily to the high software content.
Corporations have been killing the risk-taking and exploration that makes software great. They have tried to rip the soul out of development.
I'm always surprised at how many people seem to like reading about what hardware and software I use.
Like any well designed software product, Windows is designed, developed and tested as an integrated whole.
