Technology Quotes

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

A programmer is a person who passes as an exacting expert on the basis of being able to turn out, after innumerable punching, an infinite series of incomprehensive answers calculated with micrometric precisions from vague assumptions based on debatable figures taken from inconclusive documents and carried out on instruments of problematical accuracy by persons of dubious reliability and questionable mentality for the avowed purpose of annoying and confounding a hopelessly defenseless department that was unfortunate enough to ask for the information in the first place.

Pentiums melt in your PC, not in your hand.

I also introduce skills like using a hula hoop or jumping rope. I think many kids this age need a break from the computer or video games to learn these very important physical skills.

We kid ourselves if we think that the ratio of procedure to data in an active data-base system can be made arbitrarily small or even kept small.

This is not a phone business. This is the smallest video camera, it's the smallest computer, smallest TV.

If your computer speaks English, it was probably made in Japan.

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.

Microsoft is not the answer. Microsoft is the question. NO is the answer.

If computers get too powerful, we can organize them into a committee. That will do them in.

Well, another market is being created now out of Internet technology.

Macintosh computer are easy to use. It's also easy to stick your hand in a wood chipper.

Hardware: where the people in your company's software section will tell you the problem is. Software: where the people in your company's hardware section will tell you the problem is.

Never before in history has innovation offered promise of so much to so many in so short a time.

Once a new technology rolls over you, if you're not part of the steamroller, you're part of the road.

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.

The spoken word was the first technology by which man was able to let go of his environment in order to grasp it in a new way.

The computer reminds one of Lon Chaney -- it is the machine of a thousand faces.

Users /nm./: collective term for those who use computers. Users are divided into three types: novice, intermediate and expert. Novice Users: people who are afraid that simply pressing a key might break their computer. Intermediate Users: people who don't know how to fix their computer after they've just pressed a key that broke it. Expert Users: people who break other people's computers.

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.

Live TV died in the late 1950s, electronic bulletin boards came along in the mid-1980s, meaning there was about a 25-year gap when it was difficult to put your foot in your mouth and have people all across the country know about it.

In English every word can be verbed. Would that it were so in our programming languages.

The Internet? Is that thing still around?

Not everything that can be counted counts, and not everything that counts can be counted.

America's technology has turned in upon itself; its corporate form makes it the servant of profits, not the servant of human needs.