Technology Quotes

A language that doesn't affect the way you think about programming, is not worth knowing.

It has been said that the great scientific disciplines are examples of giants standing on the shoulders of other giants. It has also been said that the software industry is an example of midgets standing on the toes of other midgets.

Saying that most of the computer was filled with personal images is simply not accurate.

No matter how slick the demo is in rehearsal, when you do it in front of a live audience, the probability of a flawless presentation is inversely proportional to the number of people watching, raised to the power of the amount of money involved.

Symmetry is a complexity-reducing concept (co-routines include subroutines); seek it everywhere.

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.

The Linux philosophy is "Laugh in the face of danger". Oops. Wrong One. "Do it yourself". Yes, that's it.

The purpose of medicine is to prevent significant disease, to decrease pain and to postpone death... Technology has to support these goals-if not, it may even be counterproductive.

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.

The new information technology—Internet and e-mail—have practically eliminated the physical costs of communications.

The only problem with Microsoft is they just have no taste. They have absolutely no taste. And I don’t mean that in a small way, I mean that in a big way, in the sense that they don’t think of original ideas, and they don’t bring much culture into their products.

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

Software expands to consume all available resources.

Everyone has a right to a university degree in America, even if it's in Hamburger Technology.

If future generations are to remember us more with gratitude than sorrow, we must achieve more than just the miracles of technology. We must also leave them a glimpse of the world as it was created, not just as it looked when we got through with it.

I’ve noticed lately that the paranoid fear of computers becoming intelligent and taking over the world has almost entirely disappeared from the common culture. Near as I can tell, this coincides with the release of MS-DOS.

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

The Internet is like a giant jellyfish. You can't step on it. You can't go around it. You've got to get through it.

Back up my hard drive? How do I put it in reverse?

The only constructive theory connecting neuroscience and psychology will arise from the study of software.

Education makes machines which act like men and produces men who act like machines.

It is practically impossible to teach good programming style to students that have had prior exposure to BASIC. As potential programmers, they are mentally mutilated beyond hope of regeneration.

A computer lets you make more mistakes faster than any invention in human history - with the possible exceptions of handguns and tequila.

Yesterday it worked Today it is not working Windows is like that

The goal of computation is the emulation of our synthetic abilities, not the understanding of our analytic ones.