Software Criticism Quotes

I got tired of people complaining that it was too hard to use UNIX because the editor was too complicated.

This 'users are idiots, and are confused by functionality' mentality of Gnome is a disease. If you think your users are idiots, only idiots will use it.

The X server has to be the biggest program I've ever seen that doesn't do anything for you.

Job Control Language is the worst programming language ever designed anywhere by anybody for any purpose.

Steve Jobs has said that Xwindows is brain-damamged and will disappear in two years. He got it half-right.

Photo management software is terrible. Mylio is pretty good - but disrupts the 'natural' flow of things: i.e. Apple Photos.

Software is usually accompanied by documentation in the form of big fat scary manuals that nobody ever reads. In fact, for the past five years most of the manuals shipped with software products have actually been copies of Stephen King's The Stand with new covers pasted on.

Grassroots techies - the mostly unknown people who write code and start companies that don't make the headlines - hate, loathe, and despise Microsoft. At technology conferences, it is the devil, or the guaranteed laugh line. Its products are mocked, its business practices booed.

It's doubtful that any fiction worth reading has been produced on a computer running Windows Vista.