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We’ve gone from the image of India as land of fakirs lying on beds of nails, and snake charmers with the Indian rope trick, to the image of India as a land of mathematical geniuses, computer wizards, software gurus. —Shashi TharoorPolitician
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Most good programmers do programming not because they expect to get paid or get adulation by the public, but because it is fun to program. —Linus TorvaldsFinnish-American software programmer
There are two methods in software design. One is to make the program so simple, there are obviously no errors. The other is to make it so complicated, there are no obvious errors. —Tony HoareBritish computer scientist
Most software today is very much like an Egyptian pyramid with millions of bricks piled on top of each other, with no structural integrity, but just done by brute force and thousands of slaves.—Alan KayAmerican computer scientist
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Software is eating the world, but AI is going to eat software. —Jensen HuangTaiwanese-American businessman
If we want users to like our software, we should design it to behave like a likeable person. —Alan CooperAmerican software designer
Software is like entropy. It is difficult to grasp, weighs nothing, and obeys the second law of thermodynamics that is it always increases. —Norman Ralph AugustineAmerican businessman
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All software sucks. —Alan CoxAmerican geophysicist
People usually compare the computer to the head of the human being. I would say that hardware is the bone of the head, the skull. The semiconductor is the brain within the head. The software is the wisdom. And data is the knowledge. —Masayoshi SonJapanese investor
Software is a great combination between artistry and engineering. —Bill GatesAmerican businessman
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Be careful about virtual relationships with artificially intelligent pieces of software. —Larry EllisonAmerican businessman
You can mass-produce hardware you cannot mass-produce software—you cannot mass-produce the human mind. —Michio KakuAmerican theoretical physicist
In software systems it is often the early bird that makes the worm. —Alan PerlisAmerican computer scientist
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First Published: Sep 24, 2021, 11:47
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