People enjoy the interaction on the Internet, and the feeling of belonging to a group that does something interesting: that's how some software projects are born.

Software is like sex: it's better when it's free.

When it comes to software, I much prefer free software, because I have very seldom seen a program that has worked well enough for my needs, and having sources available can be a life-saver.

Fighting patents one by one will never eliminate the danger of software patents, any more than swatting mosquitoes will eliminate malaria.

The days when you needed amazing Silicon Graphics machines to run animation software are gone now.

For music, unlike a $500 software program, people are paying a buck or two a song, and it's those dollars and pennies that have to add up to pay for not just the cost of that song, but the investment in the next song.

Interactive computers and software will, I think, provide a less costly method of doing some kinds of inquiry, in knowledge acquisition and even reasoning and interaction.

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

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

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.

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

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?

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

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

Venture capitalists are like lemmings jumping on the software bandwagon.