Technology Quotes

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.

Computers can now keep a man's every transgression recorded in a permanent memory bank, duplicating with complex programming and intricate wiring a feat his wife handles quite well without fuss or fanfare.

The advance of technology is based on making it fit in so that you don't really even notice it, so it's part of everyday life.

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

SUPERCOMPUTER: what it sounded like before you bought it.

I am a hard-core believer that the clean desktop is the way to go... At the same time, we told OEMs that if they were going to put a bunch of icons on the desktop, then so were we.

Structured Programming supports the law of the excluded muddle.

The factory of the future will have only two employees, a man and a dog. The man will be there to feed the dog. The dog will be there to keep the man from touching the equipment.

Get into a rut early: Do the same process the same way. Accumulate idioms. Standardize. The only difference(!) between Shakespeare and you was the size of his idiom list - not the size of his vocabulary.

The digital revolution is far more significant than the invention of writing or even of printing.

And bring me a hard copy of the Internet so I can do some serious surfing.

Dating a girl is just like writing software. Everything's going to work just fine in the testing lab (dating), but as soon as you have contract with a customer (marriage), then your program (life) is going to be facing new situations you never expected. You'll be forced to patch the code (admit you're wrong) and then the code (wife) will just end up all bloated and unmaintainable in the end.

First, solve the problem. Then, write the code.

Advances in computer technology and the Internet have changed the way America works, learns, and communicates. The Internet has become an integral part of America's economic, political, and social life.

Looking at the proliferation of personal web pages on the net, it looks like very soon everyone on earth will have 15 Megabytes of fame.

The term reboot comes from the middle age (before computers). Horses who stopped in mid-stride required a boot to the rear to start again. Thus the term to rear-boot, later abbreviated into reboot.

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.

Food for thought: A fully-protected-and-updated Windows box cannot, by definition, have an uptime of more than 30 days.

The future masters of technology will have to be light-hearted and intelligent. The machine easily masters the grim and the dumb.

What the country needs are a few labor-making inventions.

Over the centuries the Indians developed sign language for communicating phenomena of interest. Programmers from different tribes (FORTRAN, LISP, ALGOL, SNOBOL, etc.) could use one that doesn't require them to carry a blackboard on their ponies.

It has become appallingly obvious that our technology has exceeded our humanity.

Should array indices start at 0 or 1? My compromise of 0.5 was rejected without, I thought, proper consideration.

Because of its vitality, the computing field is always in desperate need of new cliches: Banality soothes our nerves.

Once you understand how to write a program get someone else to write it.