Most of the effort in the software business goes into the maintenance of code that already exists.

  • -- Wietse Venema 维埃茨·威内玛

软件业务的大部分工作都是维护已经存在的代码。

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I think we're proving ourselves as we go along. The past several months our strategy has been evolutionary - making maximum advantage of our client browser, as well as our enterprise software for people who want to build Web sites.

我想我们正在证明自己。在过去的几个月里,我们的策略一直在进化——最大限度地利用我们的客户端浏览器,以及我们的企业软件,为那些想要构建网站的人服务。

What this power is I cannot say; all I know is that it exists and it becomes available only when a man is in that state of mind in which he knows exactly what he wants and is fully determined not to quit until he finds it.

我说不出这种力量是什么;我所知道的是,它的存在,只有当一个人处于一种他确切知道他想要什么,并下定决心不放弃直到他找到它的精神状态时,它才会成为可能。

A powerful attraction exists, therefore, to the promotion of a study and of duties of all others engrossing the time most completely, and which is less benefited than most others by any acquaintance with science.

因此,对促进一项研究和对最完全占用时间的其他工作的职责的促进存在着一种强大的吸引力,而这比任何科学知识对其他工作的促进作用都要小。

No one should expect building a new high-growth, software-powered company in an established industry to be easy. It's brutally difficult.

没有人能指望在一个成熟的行业里建立一家高增长、以软件为动力的新公司是件容易的事。这是残酷的困难。