Eric S. Raymond Quotes

At Microsoft, the magic of software is used to take on very interesting challenges.

The most sought-after candidates in the world today by companies like mine are people who make computer software - there's a shortage of talent.

I know one business, and that's how to make software.

We can't defend French culture without a [computer] software industry.

Softbank has always been a service firm, and with the Internet, services became the center of the technology industry.

There's nobody getting rich writing software that I know of.

The great thing about crummy software is the amount of employment it generates.

I was a programmer.

I've spent a career working in tech as a software engineer. And I believe regulated markets are the best way to build and deliver innovative products.

The best software companies in the world are the Indian companies like the Tatas, Infosys, and others.

Mexico is very well positioned in the IT sector, thanks to our closeness to North America and how things are being developed in Silicon Valley.

We're the toolmakers. Our developers are the real creative geniuses.

Since its inception, HCL's core focus area has been technology and product development, and hence, we continued to remain in the high end of technology throughout the '90s.

Old companies that had nothing to do with software in the past all have software development activities to unlock the invention that's occurring inside of these organizations. And so the developer is a very important part of that overall ecosystem.

Although the most advanced software innovation may take place in big cities with research universities, there is a lot of work concerning the application of software to business processes and the administration and maintenance of software systems that can be done remotely.

Software eventually and necessarily gained the same respect as any other discipline.

We can build a better product than Linux.

Software breaks before it bends, so it demands perfection in a universe that prefers statistics.

When we started off we didn't know how to spell software.

I'm not a real programmer. I throw together things until it works then I move on. The real programmers will say Yeah it works but you're leaking memory everywhere. Perhaps we should fix that. I'll just restart Apache every 10 requests.

Creeping featurism is a disease, fatal if not treated promptly. There are some cures, but, as usual, the best approach is to practice preventative medicine.

There are only two industries that refer to their customers as 'users'.

This is a software-powered world.

Complexity control is the central problem of writing software in the real world

C++ is a horrible language. It's made more horrible by the fact that a lot of substandard programmers use it, to the point where it's much much easier to generate total and utter crap with it.