Our software allows agents to send out automatic e-greetings on birthdays, anniversary, the changing of the clocks twice a year. Remembering customers at times they would not expect you to remember them has a strong emotional appeal.
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We decided that the French could never write user-friendly software because they're so rude.
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I found this in an electronic commerce software example products file (Goldpaint):
[Pocket Lawyer] [stuffed person] [What a unique gift for your favorite lawyer or friends who needs one! Just squeeze him and hear legal phrases like, 'My client is innocent', 'This is an outrage', 'I'll see you in court', and 'Pay up you dead beat.' He carries a briefcase and is dressed in a gray suit, white shirt and striped tie. He measures 7' tall and comes with a life-time battery included. Our pocket lawyer -- don't go to court without him.]
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Reading computer manuals without the hardware is a frustrating as reading sex manuals without the software.
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Everest Software continues to effectively implement its business plan in bringing to market a comprehensive and affordable business management solution that has the capability to change the way growing companies operate their businesses. Everest has the right mix of technology, market focus and experienced leadership to capitalize on this evolving market.
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The idea that we are anti-capitalist is a stupid idea. Free software is not anti-capitalist. Capitalism now makes a great deal of money out of free software and it voluntarily pays us money to make, improve and lawyer for it.
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War has ended, not with the bang of a bomb, but with the gentle whisper of crashing software.
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Seaman is the newest entry in the proud Japanese tradition of software that simulates having a friend.
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People who are really serious about software should make their own hardware.
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The Demise of the DiskDoctor: The story I was told goes something like this. The software folks were not quite sure whether DiskDoctor should be dumped or improved, so they decided to leave it up to DiskDoctor itself. They put the DiskDoctor source on an old floppy, then ran DiskDoctor on it. As often happened, DiskDoctor damaged this undamaged disk. So, while it's often said that DiskDoctor was 'sued for malpractice', it's more correct to state that DiskDoctor committed suicide.
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Anybody who's studied software engineering knows that a schedule which underestimates the time needed to develop a project actually makes the project take longer.
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The NeXT Computer The hardware makes it a PC, the software makes it a workstation, the unit sales makes it a mainframe.
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There are two ways of constructing a software design One way is to make it so simple that there are obviously no deficiencies, and the other way is to make it so complicated that there are no obvious deficiencies. The first method is far more difficult.
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We think the real issue is whether the government is going to dictate what features can go into software products or whether consumers in the marketplace are going to decide.
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Walking on water and developing software from a specification are easy if both are frozen.
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Software gets slower faster than hardware gets faster.
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The Next Computer: The hardware makes it a PC, the software makes it a workstation, the unit sales makes it a mainframe.
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Just like we need standards in software and hardware, we need standards in power utilization and power savings.
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There are two ways of constructing a software design; one way is to make it so simple that there are obviously no deficiencies, and the other way is to make it so complicated that there are no obvious deficiencies. The first method is far more difficult.
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Programming today is a race between software engineers striving to build bigger and better idiot-proof programs, and the Universe trying to produce bigger and better idiots. So far, the Universe is winning.
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Personalization: the automatic tailoring of sites and messages to the individuals viewing them so that we can feel that somewhere there's a piece of software that loves us for who we are.
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LAWS OF COMPUTER PROGRAMMING, X: Adding manpower to a late software project makes it later.
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Doubts about the growth prospects of the software industry have been put to rest. The overall story is intact.
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Programming today is a race between software engineers stirring to build bigger and better idiot-proof programs, and the universe trying to produce bigger and better idiots. So far, the universe is winning.
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The Postfix security model is based on keeping software simple and stupid.
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As a rule, software systems do not work well until they have been used, and have failed repeatedly, in real applications.
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