Technology Quotes

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

It is questionable if all the mechanical inventions yet made have lightened the day's toil of any human being.

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.

The inside of a computer is as dumb as hell but it goes like mad!

Windows is just DOS in drag.

Technology is the drug of choice for most Americans. Source unknown Theory: when you have ideas. Ideology: when ideas have you.

In programming, everything we do is a special case of something more general -- and often we know it too quickly.

Programmers are in a race with the Universe to create bigger and better idiot-proof programs, while the Universe is trying to create bigger and better idiots. So far the Universe is winning.

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.

The only truly secure computer is one buried in concrete, with the power turned off and the network cable cut.

Some say Google is God. Others say Google is Satan. But if they think Google is too powerful, remember that with search engines unlike other companies, all it takes is a single click to go to another search engine.

Programming is like sex: one mistake and you’re providing support for a lifetime.

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.

You will not even have enough time to go online and download all the patches to your computer before it is infected.

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

After growing wildly for years, the field of computing appears to be reaching its infancy.

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

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.

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

We always overestimate the change that will occur in the next two years and underestimate the change that will occur in the next ten. Don't let yourself be lulled into inaction.

Paper is no longer a big part of my day. I get 90% of my news online, and when I go to a meeting and want to jot things down, I bring my Tablet PC. It's fully synchronized with my office machine so I have all the files I need.

If a program is useless, it will have to be documented.

A year spent in artificial intelligence is enough to make one believe in God.

Renewable energy is proven technology, the price is dropping, the rest of the world is going that way, that's where our investment should be going as well.

That’s the thing about people who think they hate computers. What they really hate is lousy programmers.