Technology Quotes

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

Within a computer natural language is unnatural.

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.

Documentation is like term insurance: It satisfies because almost no one who subscribes to it depends on its benefits.

The interesting thing is when we design and architect a server, we don't design it for Windows or Linux, we design it for both. We don't really care, as long as we're selling the one the customer wants.

It is only when they go wrong that machines remind you how powerful they are.

The bulk of all patents are crap. Spending time reading them is stupid. It’s up to the patent owner to do so, and to enforce them.

Microsoft has a new version out, Windows XP, which according to everybody is the ‘most reliable Windows ever.‘ To me, this is like saying that asparagus is ‘the most articulate vegetable ever.

Controlling complexity is the essence of computer programming.

The Star Trek computer doesn't seem that interesting. They ask it random questions, it thinks for a while. I think we can do better than that.

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.

This is a highly reliable power source. Being a large credit card processor, doing $6 million an hour in transactions, our computers have to work.

Mac users swear by their computers. PC users swear at their computers.

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

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

Come to think of it, there are already a million monkeys on a million typewriters, and Usenet is nothing like Shakespeare.

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

For systems, the analogue of a face-lift is to add to the control graph an edge that creates a cycle, not just an additional node.

How could this be a problem in a country where we have Intel and Microsoft?

Windows is just DOS in drag.

NO, You cannot dial 911, I'm downloading my mail !!!

Complexity kills. It sucks the life out of developers, it makes products difficult to plan, build and test, it introduces security challenges, and it causes end-user and administrator frustration.

If you don't want to be replaced by a computer, don't act like one.

It is extremely unlikely that anyone coming out of school with a technical degree will go into one area and stay there. Today's students have to look forward to the excitement of probably having three or four careers.

They should never have entered him in that computer. It's just common sense? that's the bottom line. I don't think it should have gotten this far.