Technology Quotes

There are two ways of constructing a software design. One way is to make it so simple that there are obviously no deficiencies. And the other way is to make it so complicated that there are no obvious deficiencies.

Optimism is an occupational hazard of programming; feedback is the treatment.

It is easier to write an incorrect program than understand a correct one.

Windows NT crashed. I am the Blue Screen of Death. No one hears your screams.

Science is supposedly the method by which we stand on the shoulders of those who came before us. In computer science, we all are standing on each others' feet.

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.

The science of today is the technology of tomorrow.

Ooops. My brain just hit a bad sector.

Adding programmers to a late project makes it later.

There used to be this country called the Soviet Union; it's not there anymore. Our technology was better than theirs.

I find sitting at a specially equipped desk in front of some pretty ugly plastics and staring at a little window is a very unnatural event.

It is the user who should parameterize procedures, not their creators.

A distributed system is one in which the failure of a computer you didn't even know existed can render your own computer unusable.

It's hard for us in our stores to be a leader in technology.

If we believe in data structures, we must believe in independent (hence simultaneous) processing. For why else would we collect items within a structure? Why do we tolerate languages that give us the one without the other?

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

'Intel Inside': The world's most widely used warning label.

Computing is not about computers any more. It is about living.

Considering the current sad state of our computer programs, software development is clearly still a black art, and cannot yet be called an engineering discipline.

640K ought to be enough for anybody.

This is not a phone business. This is the smallest video camera, it's the smallest computer, smallest TV.

Too few people in computer science are aware of some of the informational challenges in biology and their implications for the world. We can store an incredible amount of data very cheaply.

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

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

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