Jaron Lanier: Software

Jaron Lanier is American computer scientist, musician, and author. Explore interesting quotes on software.
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“Software breaks before it bends, so it demands perfection in a universe that prefers statistics.”

Jaron Lanier

"One Half of a Manifesto," The New Humanists: Science at the Edge (2003)

Universe , Perfection

“There has been over a decade of work worldwide in Darwinian approaches to generating software, and… nothing has arisen from the work that would make software in general any better.”

Jaron Lanier

"One Half of a Manifesto," The New Humanists: Science at the Edge (2003)

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

Jaron Lanier

"One Half of a Manifesto," The New Humanists: Science at the Edge (2003)

“If anything, there's a reverse Moore's Law observable in software: As processors become faster and memory becomes cheaper, software becomes correspondingly slower and more bloated, using up all available resources.”

Jaron Lanier

"One Half of a Manifesto," The New Humanists: Science at the Edge (2003)

Law , Memory