Technology Quotes

The last good thing written in C++ was the Pachelbel Canon.

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

We have technology, finally, that for the first time in human history allows people to really maintain rich connections with much larger numbers of people.

We've all heard that a million monkeys banging on a million typewriters will eventually reproduce the entire works of Shakespeare. Now, thanks to the Internet, we know this is not true.

The debate rages on: is PL/I Bachtrian or Dromedary?

With engineering, I view this year's failure as next year's opportunity to try it again. Failures are not something to be avoided. You want to have them happen as quickly as you can so you can make progress rapidly.

I completely love playing and designing games and always will. I am so into games that I listen to game music all day. That may sound strange, but you can guarantee I'm a hardcore gamer and would never let you down by designing a crappy title.

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.

It makes life difficult ... because law changes very slowly. We have judges who did not grow up with computers and so many do not understand the technology and issues it raises.

A good system can't have a weak command language.

I see no progress in this industry. These clocks are no faster than the ones they made a hundred years ago.

From then on, when anything went wrong with a computer, we said it had bugs in it.

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

Any significant boost in technology could just as easily be a rigged demo.

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.

Well Microsoft really does develop some really interesting technology.

Programmers are tools for converting caffeine into code.

I had a fortune cookie the other day and it said: 'Outlook not so good'. I said: 'Sure, but Microsoft ships it anyway'.

Functions delay binding; data structures induce binding. Moral: Structure data late in the programming process.

If two people write exactly the same program, each should be put into microcode and then they certainly won't be the same.

WWW? Nice toy, but what a waste of time.

The computer is the ultimate polluter: its feces are indistinguish- able from the food it produces.

We really care about our brand. We really want it to stand for high quality. We want people to be excited about it, for it to be fun.

The science of today is the technology of tomorrow.

Like punning, programming is a play on words.