Noun
(computer science) written programs or procedures or rules and associated documentation pertaining to the operation of a computer system and that are stored in read/write memory
Source: WordNetPeople who are really serious about software should make their own hardware. Alan Kay
Most software today is very much like an Egyptian pyramid with millions of bricks piled on top of each other, with no structural integrity, but just done by brute force and thousands of slaves. Alan Kay
Software is like sex: it's better when it's free. Linus Torvalds
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? Alan Perlis
The next generation of interesting software will be done on the Macintosh, not the IBM PC. Bill Gates
While the creative works from the 16th century can still be accessed and used by others, the data in some software programs from the 1990s is already inaccessible. Lawrence Lessig