
The Evolutionary Future of Man (1993)
Source: Thought Without a Body? (1994), p. 291
The Evolutionary Future of Man (1993)
D.T. Ross (1989) "Appendix B: Understanding: The Key to Software" in: Computer Science and Telecommunications Board, National Research Council Scaling Up: A Research Agenda for Software Engineering. p. 66 (cited on p. 3).
2009, Speech: The Socio-Economic Peace Program of Senator Francis Escudero
Steve Ballmer says Microsoft plans to compete with Apple in every market http://appleinsider.com/articles/12/07/10/steve_ballmer_says_microsoft_plans_to_compete_with_apple_in_every_market in AppleInsider (10 July 2012)
2010s
Source: 1970s, Culture Is Our Business (1970), p. 180
“Software gets slower faster than hardware gets faster.”
[A Plea for Lean Software, http://csdl2.computer.org/persagen/DLAbsToc.jsp?resourcePath=/dl/mags/co/&toc=comp/mags/co/1995/02/r2toc.xml&DOI=10.1109/2.348001, 2007-01-13, Computer, 1995, February, 28, 2, pp. 64-68]
Variation: Software is decelerating faster than hardware is accelerating.
aka "Wirth's law"
“The hardware world tends to move into software form at the speed of light.”
1970s, The Education of Mike McManus, TVOntario, December 28 1977
“Software is getting slower more rapidly than hardware becomes faster.”
Source: 1990s and beyond, The Book of Probes : Marshall McLuhan (2011), p. 227