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Is it possible that software is not like anything else, that it is meant to be discarded: that the whole point is to always see it as a soap bubble?

— Alan Perlis

Sentiment: NEGATIVE

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✓Similar Perspectives

In short, software is eating the world.

— Marc Andreessen

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 Kay

Whatever way that we have in our head that we expect people to use a software, they'll find other interesting ways to use it that we didn't expect.

— Dennis Crowley

Software as an asset isn't stable over time; it needs to be maintained.

— Brian Behlendorf

There is no neat distinction between operating system software and the software that runs on top of it.

— Jim Allchin

A lot of people assume that creating software is purely a solitary activity where you sit in an office with the door closed all day and write lots of code.

— Bill Gates

As a rule, software systems do not work well until they have been used, and have failed repeatedly, in real applications.

— Dave Parnas

Corporations have been killing the risk-taking and exploration that makes software great. They have tried to rip the soul out of development.

— Brian Behlendorf

Software comes from heaven when you have good hardware.

— Ken Olsen

✗Opposing Perspectives

Software is like entropy. It is difficult to grasp, weighs nothing, and obeys the second law of thermodynamics; i.e. it always increases.

— Norman Ralph Augustine