Software Quotes

You don't want users to play too much. You want distributed firewalls and products and that don't need a lot of human interface. [With hardware], you don't need to worry about support, upgrades, or patching. The software is still on [the] high end but appliances make it easy to fit in. - Charles Kolodgy

You could visibly see the lanes going down as the operating system's custom software slowly died. - Aaron Frizzell

You cannot ignore the Nintendo magic on the software side. It puts them in the pole position ahead of Microsoft. - Lisa Spicer

You can take facial-recognition software and run that composite through a database of criminals you have on file already, and see whether there's any kind of resemblance in there. - Jim Miller

You can open scripts created by screenwriting software like Final Draft. You can then audition all the takes for an individual line. When you get the reading you like best, you double click and add that to the timeline. - Tim Wilson

You can imagine that people at a help desk or customer support center are much more efficient by having immediate access through a search engine and knowledge data base software to access quick answers to questions. - Jim Grant

Yet, I am convinced that there is a need for high quality software, and the time will come when it will be recognized that it is worth investing effort in its development and in using a careful, structured approach based on safe, structured languages. - Niklaus Wirth

Yes, Daniel Robbins has decided to leave Microsoft to pursue his passion for software development with an independent software vendor where he will be focused on building in .Net on Windows. This move also takes Daniel and his family back to their hometown community of Albuquerque?We thank Daniel for his contribution to Microsoft and wish him the best of luck on his new job. - Bill Hilf

Writing software that's safe even in the presence of bugs makes the challenge even more interesting. - Wietse Venema