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

While the creative works from the 16th century can still be accessed and used by others, the data in some software programs from the 1990s is already inaccessible.

By the time Apple's Macintosh operating system finally falls into the public domain, there will be no machine that could possibly run it. The term of copyright for software is effectively unlimited.

Most people treat the office manual the way they treat a software manual. They never look at it.

I think that the most beautiful thing lately hasn't been in hardware or software per se but collaboration - the idea behind Napster, which uses the distributed power of the Internet as its engine.

The scanning of barcodes, or the reading of RFID transponders, generates data that is used in a software package to provide management or control information.

Limit use of shareware and public domain software to systems without fixed disks. If you do use them on fixed disks, allocate separate subdirectories... Public domain or shareware software should never be placed in the root directory.

Now, you can just get a laptop, get some software, put a microphone on it and make a record. You have to know how to do it. It does help if you've had 35 or 40 years of experience in the studio. But, it still levels the playing field so artists can record their own stuff.

So what I was essentially doing was, I compromised the confidentiality of their proprietary software to advance my agenda of becoming the best at breaking through the lock.

Back in my day, I would probe by hand. Now you can get commercial software that does the job for you.

We're entering a new world in which data may be more important than software.

Software comes from heaven when you have good hardware.

Venture capitalists are like lemmings jumping on the software bandwagon.

With bundled machines you can throw away the hardware and keep the software, and it's still a good buy.

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

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?

In software systems it is often the early bird that makes the worm.

If Unix could present the same face, the same capabilities, on machines of many different types, it could serve as a common software environment for all of them.

Any editing, software work, and mail is done in this exported Plan 9.

You know, IBM was almost knocked out of the box by other types of computer software and manufacturing.