Quotes About Development

For us, the real goal is to make it so that the software ecosystem is as healthy as possible.

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

There's a huge latent market for software development that's just flat-out honest.

The reality of most software development is that the consequences of failure are simply nonexistent.

I'm really good at making software for publishing.

The software industry has to become better in componentization. That's a clear focus for most of the software companies. How components look, how they are maintained, the ability to maintain them separately.

Any good software engineer will tell you that a compiler and an interpreter are interchangeable.

If you want to do interesting software, you have to have a bunch of people do it, because the amount of software that one person can do isn't that interesting.

Writing software is a very intense, very personal thing. You have to have time to work your way through it, to understand it. Then debug it.

My ma is an economist. My dad is a software engineer.

If you know how to make software, then you can create big things.

If you're trying to develop a new drug, that costs you a billion dollars to get through the FDA. If you want to start a software company, you can get started with maybe $100,000.

All the reasons that have made software so successful are beginning to happen with hardware. So much can be done so quickly, prototyped so rapidly, and the costs are so low.

The process of software development doesn't feel any better than it did a generation ago.

Mark Zuckerberg did his own software for Facebook, and Larry Page and Sergey Brin made their own for Google.

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

I think there are opportunities outside India as well as in India. In fact, some of the largest projects that most Indian software companies are doing are in India.

Google is already overflowing with incredibly creative bright groups already working on lots of the software problems of the world.

Yes, we are a producer of cameras, but we understand that at the end of the day, you have to make photos in software. A lot of companies focus on the camera side, and a lot are on the software side. There's a chasm between the two.

Oculus is actually more of a software company than it is a hardware company.

I want to see us remain convinced that software matters in the future.

At Sussex University, I developed a system called WinLocX to help with the process of translating software into foreign languages.

I did software development for a while, and I also spent several years directing a nonprofit in San Francisco that did computer education for the poor. I also did a lot of work in fast food.

We taught ourselves to simulate how microprocessors work using DEC computers so we could develop software even before our machine was built.