Technology Quotes

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.

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.

Software is under a constant tension. Being symbolic it is arbitrarily perfectible; but also it is arbitrarily changeable.

Encryption...is a powerful defensive weapon for free people. It offers a technical guarantee of privacy, regardless of who is running the government... It's hard to think of a more powerful, less dangerous tool for liberty.

Microsoft has a new version out, Windows XP, which according to everybody is the ‘most reliable Windows ever.‘ To me, this is like saying that asparagus is ‘the most articulate vegetable ever.

The research rat of the future allows experimentation without manipulation of the real world. This is the cutting edge of modeling technology.

Technology without hatred can be a blessing. Technology with hatred is always a disaster.

Competition is always a fantastic thing, and the computer industry is intensely competitive. Whether it's Google or Apple or free software, we've got some fantastic competitors and it keeps us on our toes.

The Web is like a dominatrix. Everywhere I turn, I see little buttons ordering me to Submit.

I am sometimes something of a lazy person, so when I end up spending a lot of time using something myself — as I did with Google in the earliest of days, I knew it was a big deal.

The perfect computer has been developed. You just feed in your problems and they never come out again.

Men are from Mars. Women are from Venus. Computers are from hell.

People keep asking me what I think of it now that it's done. Hence my protest: The Web is not done!

They have computers, and they may have other weapons of mass destruction.

640K ought to be enough for anybody.

A complex system that works is invariably found to have evolved from a simple system that worked.

Ooops. My brain just hit a bad sector.

Never let a computer know you're in a hurry.

Overall, OS/2's problems fall into two categories: IBM and Microsoft.

MS-DOS isn't dead, it just smells that way.

If google made $1 everytime someone used them to find an answer to a tech support question, they would own microsoft.

To go forward, you must backup.

INSERT DISK THREE' ? But I can only get two in the drive !

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.

Saying your OS is the best in the world 'cause more people use it is like saying McDonalds makes the best food in the world.