Technology Quotes

The first 90% of the code accounts for the first 90% of the development time. The remaining 10% of the code accounts for the other 90% of the development time.

Often it is the means that justify the ends: Goals advance technique and technique survives even when goal structures crumble.

Recursion is the root of computation since it trades description for time.

The federal government is like a handicapped turtle trying to crawl around and keep up with the rabbit, which is technology.

In 20 or 30 years, you'll be able to hold in your hand as much computing knowledge as exists now in the whole city, or even the whole world.

Microsoft: "You've got questions. We've got dancing paperclips."

People say Microsoft paid $14M for using the Rolling Stones song 'Start me up' in their commercials. This is wrong. Microsoft payed $14M only for a part of the song. For instance, they didn't use the line 'You'll make a grown man cry'.

Imagine a school with children that can read or write, but with teachers who cannot, and you have a metaphor of the Information Age in which we live.

Windows 95: It's like upgrading from Reagan to Bush.

If Unix is the face of the future I want to go back to quill pens.

My software never has bugs. It just develops random features.

Unix is simple. It just takes a genius to understand its simplicity.

They should never have entered him in that computer. It's just common sense? that's the bottom line. I don't think it should have gotten this far.

It's very important to remember that it's your intellectual property; it's not your computer. And in the pursuit of protection of intellectual property, it's important not to defeat or undermine the security measures that people need to adopt in these days.

I think Microsoft named .Net so it wouldn’t show up in a Unix directory listing.

The Internet is the end of civilizations, cultures, interests and ethics.

In view of all the deadly computer viruses that have been spreading lately, Weekend Update would like to remind you: when you link up to another computer, you're linking up to every computer that that computer has ever linked up to.

Program complexity grows until it exceeds the capabilities of the programmer who must maintain it.

In all large corporations, there is a pervasive fear that someone, somewhere is having fun with a computer on company time. Networks help alleviate that fear.

What the country needs are a few labor-making inventions.

A program is a spell cast over a computer, turning input into error messages.

Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.

Every operating system out there is about equal… We all suck.

There are so many ways to heal. Arrogance may have a place in technology, but not in healing. I need to get out of my own way if I am to heal.

SUPERCOMPUTER: what it sounded like before you bought it.