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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

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✓Similar Perspectives

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.

— Nathan Myhrvold

Software development is technical activity conducted by human beings.

— Niklaus Wirth

In short, software is eating the world.

— Marc Andreessen

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

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.

— Vint Cerf

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

There's a fundamental problem with how the software business does things. We're asking people who are masters of hard-edged technology to design the soft, human side of software as well. As a result, they make products that are really cool - if you happen to be a software engineer.

— Alan Cooper

The critical thing in developing software is not the program, it's the design. It is translating understanding of user needs into something that can be realized as a computer program.

— Mitch Kapor

I really think it is amazing that people actually buy software.

— Bill Budge

✗Opposing Perspectives

It gives you great pleasure to know that millions of developers, day to day, make their living using the software that you created.

— Anders Hejlsberg