Technology Quotes

There are two ways to write error-free programs; only the third one works.

If McDonalds were run like a software company, one out of every hundred Big Macs would give you food poisoning, and the response would be, ‘We’re sorry, here’s a coupon for two more.

Structured Programming supports the law of the excluded muddle.

David and I and the rest of the Yahoos here really believe that the internet should remain as free as possible. At the same time we are a business and have fiscal responsibilities.

Over the years, the U.S. economy has shown a remarkable ability to absorb shocks of all kinds, to recover, and to continue to grow. Flexible and efficient markets for labor and capital, an entrepreneurial tradition, and a general willingness to tolerate and even embrace technological and economic change all contribute to this resiliency.

With engineering, I view this year's failure as next year's opportunity to try it again. Failures are not something to be avoided. You want to have them happen as quickly as you can so you can make progress rapidly.

We know by now that if we make technology the predestined force in our lives, man will walk to the measure of its demands. We know how leveling that influence can be, how easy it is to computerize man and make him a servile thing in a vast industrial complex. . . . This means we must subject the machine -- technology -- to control and cease despoiling the earth and filling people with goodies merely to make money.

One would think that if you're anonymous, you'd do anything you want, but groups have their own sense of community and what we can do.

In a 5 year period we get one superb programming language. Only we can't control when the 5 year period will be.

I have an almost religious zeal.. not for technology per se, but for the Internet which is for me, the nervous system of mother Earth, which I see as a living creature, linking up.

You think you know when you can learn, are more sure when you can write, even more when you can teach, but certain when you can program.

A computer is like an Old Testament god, with a lot of rules and no mercy.

They say if you play a Microsoft CD backwards, you hear satanic messages. Thats nothing, cause if you play it forwards, it installs Windows.

Computation has made the tree flower.

Humanity is acquiring all the right technology for all the wrong reasons.

Technology is a gift of God. After the gift of life it is perhaps the greatest of God's gifts. It is the mother of civilizations, of arts and of sciences.

Technology favors horrible people.

Complexity kills. It sucks the life out of developers, it makes products difficult to plan, build and test, it introduces security challenges, and it causes end-user and administrator frustration.

Grove giveth and Gates taketh away.

The more I C, the less I see.

As soon as we started programming, we found to our surprise that it wasn’t as easy to get programs right as we had thought. Debugging had to be discovered. I can remember the exact instant when I realized that a large part of my life from then on was going to be spent in finding mistakes in my own programs.

I'm not anti-social; I'm just not user friendly.

There is no programming language–no matter how structured–that will prevent programmers from making bad programs.

I’ve finally learned what ‘upward compatible’ means. It means we get to keep all our old mistakes.

The eleventh commandment was "Thou Shalt Compute" or "Thou Shalt Not Compute" - I forget which.