These are all things the system software guys should do well, but the fact is they don't.

He is, from all evidence and appearances, a software guy.

Ozzie is a great software guy, he knew what he was doing.

"If the big software guys need thousands of people to complete a project we can do it with hundreds," boasts MacDonald.

So he's like the software guy.

He started prototyping concepts, which he said proved challenging because he's "basically a software guy."

The Software guy says, "Nah, let's run it another thirty miles and see if the problem reoccurs."

Roberts paid for the room and wondered who is this software guy who can not afford a room in a hotel.

But those people didn't know about computers and software, and the software guys didn't know about the hardware.

We’re software guys, we’re internet guys.”

Nigam often said that "the difference between a great software guy and an O.K. software guy is huge.

It worked very well-chime, happy Mac and all, but the project never saw the light of day... killed by the Apple hardware guys who resented the Apple software guys.

"If you look at Apple as more than just Steve Jobs -- the engineers, the software guys -- then you think Steve Jobs has been a great conductor," he said.

Would it not be obvious to someone trained in the art, is the way the actual language reads, meaning that, you know, for example in the case of software, some software guy says, oh, look what I invented.

Being a software guy myself, who started programming on the original PC in assembler, then spending the rest of the '80s and '90s at Lotus working on 1-2-3 and others, I can understand your favoritism.

Well, and the other thing that happens is that, first of all, companies that get into the software patent game end up telling their programmers, the software guys, let us know of anything you do thats clever.

"Reiswig is the real software guy, and Schneider is the tough guy who makes sure all the warring factions within I.B.M. go along with the new program," an industry executive familiar with the plan said.

For example, they did a blog post with the headline, "When a Leak Isn't a Leak," and referred to Dale's post, the Microsoft software guy who started this, and the top of whose blog post I shared last week.

And I have a physical copy that I got because I have a friend actually whos my second employee at GRC whos a gifted hardware engineer and software guy who ended up leaving because I just didnt have enough to keep him busy.