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Software bugs are impossible to detect by anybody except the end user.

Quote by Edward A. Murphy about computers, impossible, end

Software comes from heaven when you have good hardware.

Quote by Ken Olsen about computers, good, good luck

I'm sorry that we have to have a Washington presence. We thrived during our first 16 years without any of this. I never made a political visit to Washington and we had no people here. It wasn't on our radar screen. We were just making great software.

Quote by Bill Gates about nation, people

Since when has the world of computer software design been about what people want? This is a simple question of evolution. The day is quickly coming when every knee will bow down to a silicon fist, and you will all beg your binary gods for mercy.

Quote by Bill Gates about mercy, evolution, question, day, world, people

So we do software for watches, for phones, for TV sets, for cars. And some of these take a long time to catch on.

Quote by Bill Gates about cars, time

Whether it's Google or Apple or free software, we've got some fantastic competitors and it keeps us on our toes.

Quote by Bill Gates

A hardware failure will cause system software to crash, and the customer engineer will blame the programmer.

Quote by Edward A. Murphy about computers, failure

A system software crash will cause hardware to act strangely and the programmers will blame the customer engineer.

Quote by Edward A. Murphy about computers

Adding manpower to a late software project makes it later.

Quote by Edward A. Murphy about computers

The documented interfaces between standard software modules will have undocumented quirks.

Quote by Edward A. Murphy about computers

A patch is a piece of software which replaces old bugs with new bugs.

Quote by Edward A. Murphy about computers, old, olderness

Failure is not an option, it's included with the software.

Quote by Edward A. Murphy about computers, failure

The amount of time taken to successfully complete a software project is in direct proportion to the amount of Marketing input.

Quote by Edward A. Murphy about computers, time

After a software is released, the first bug found will be by a person who normally does not use that portion of the program but was wondering why he can't do something he normally would not do.

Quote by Edward A. Murphy about computers, use, people

Whenever you install a group of plugins one by one just to find out which one can make your software work, you either haven't gotten the right one, or have accidentally skipped the right one or it has become the last one installed.

Quote by Edward A. Murphy about computers, rightness, haven, work

Walking on water and developing software to specification are easy as long as both are frozen.

Quote by Edward A. Murphy about computers, water

Investment in software reliability will increase until it exceeds the probable cost of errors.

Quote by Edward A. Murphy about computers, reliability, error

We really need it because Microsoft keeps releasing sloppier and sloppier software that needs a faster and faster machine, the speed is crazy.

Quote by Ken Olsen about computers, speed, need

Screen rotation is a combination of software and hardware that allows you to change a monitor between portrait and landscape modes.

Quote by Robert Patterson about computers, change