86 Quotes About Software

The purpose of software is to help people.

The test of the machine is the satisfaction it gives you. There isn't any other test. If the machine produces tranquility it's right. If it disturbs you it's wrong until either the machine or your mind is changed.

That's the thing about people who think they hate computers. What they really hate is lousy programmers.

The computer programmer is a creator of universes for which he alone is the lawgiver. No playwright, no stage director, no emperor, however powerful, has ever exercised such absolute authority to arrange a stage or field of battle and to command such unswervingly dutiful actors or troops.

It is not enough for code to work.

Sometimes at night I worry about TAMMY. I worry that she might get tired of it all. Tired of running at sixty-six terahertz, tired of all those processing cycles, every second of every hour of every day. I worry that one of these cycles she might just halt her own subroutine and commit software suicide. And then I would have to do an error report, and I don't know how I would even begin to explain that to Microsoft.

Hope the English literature will invent a few more alphabets to avoid plagiarism. The permutation and combination of 26 alphabets even a human calculator can do, no need for plagiarism software

When one of the workers suggested they could automate some of the manager’s job with software they could easily develop, they were instructed not to do so.

You mean you don't stage the software?" I asked him. "You don't test it?" "Why should we? Everything we do is live all the time, always new, minute by minute.This is the Web! Code it, post it, run it, change it, run it again.