Software Issues Quotes

I think that Windows 8 is kind of a catastrophe for everybody in the PC space.

I've noticed that just about every time I find a large program with known glitches that no one seems able to fix, that program is written in C and is likely written by a programming team in a remote location.

All software sucks.

Prolific programmers contribute to certain disaster.

It is interesting to come across people who feel that a ghost communicating via a spell-checker is less far-fetched than a software glitch.

Software sucks because users demand it to.

One thing I like to do is visit technical forums and ask for help regarding an entirely fictitious problem I'm having with my software. When I receive help, I say, 'Nope. Didn't work.' If they guide me to a button to click, I say, 'Nope. Can't see it.' Sometimes I just reply with nothing but 'Nope,' and it drives them up the wall.

With software products, it is usual to find that the software has major 'bugs' and does not work reliably for some users... The lay public, familiar with only a few incidents of software failure, may regard them as exceptions caused by exceptionally inept programmers. Those of us who are software professionals know better; the most competent programmers in the world cannot avoid such problems.

Shareware tends to combine the worst of commercial software with the worst of free software.

There's no such thing as a simple cache bug.

That's the thing about people who think they hate computers. What they really hate is lousy programmers.

The great thing about crummy software is the amount of employment it generates.

You can't go to Windows Update and get a patch for stupidity.

Well, user feedback was excellent. Even when the software didn't work at all, there were few people who were avid users, and there were people who were just sending excellent feedback and excellent ideas.

Oracle is not known for its high levels of customer satisfaction.

Software is different than other products um, partly because it's, it's not physical and, and partly because of its complexity. You can express in software millions of different cases and making sure that you handle all of them correctly is extremely difficult.

I spend almost as much time figuring out what's wrong with my computer as I do actually using it.

It's hardware that makes a machine fast. It's software that makes a fast machine slow.

The challenge with Postfix, or with any piece of software, is to update software without introducing problems.

Yet we still see continuous reports of bugs.

Usually its users discover sooner or later that their program does not deliver all the desired results, or worse, that the results requested were not the ones really needed.

I think we were the first picture to cut on Final Cut Pro. So we were the guinea pigs, because we got a deal on the system. But with that comes all sorts of technological problems I couldn't begin to describe.

It is strange how little harm bad codes do.

There has never been an unexpectedly short debugging period in the history of computers.

There's no other major item most of us own that is as confusing, unpredictable and unreliable as our personal computers.