Technology Quotes

I remember the difficulty we had in the beginning replacing magnetic cores in memories and eventually we had both cost and performance advantages. But it wasn't at all clear in the beginning.

I think Microsoft named .Net so it wouldn’t show up in a Unix directory listing.

The use of COBOL cripples the mind; its teaching should therefore be regarded as a criminal offense.

Computers are like Old Testament gods; lots of rules and no mercy.

If brute force doesn't solve your problems, then you aren't using enough.

In computing, turning the obvious into the useful is a living definition of the word "frustration".

Only ten percent of the code in any given program will ever execute.

I hope that the internet will get to become ubiquitous and affordable, and if that's achieved, I think it'll be a big part of people's lives - for the better.

A program is never less than 90% complete, and never more than 95% complete.

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.

A LISP programmer knows the value of everything, but the cost of nothing.

It's not that we use technology, we live technology.

Within a computer natural language is unnatural.

The probability of a flawless demo is inversely proportional to the number of people watching, raised to the power of the amount of money involved.

We are on the verge: Today our program proved Fermat's next-to-last theorem.

Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.

One of the main causes of the fall of the Roman Empire was that–lacking zero–they had no way to indicate successful termination of their C programs.

Technology makes the world a new place.

The best thing about a boolean is even if you are wrong, you are only off by a bit.

Measuring programming progress by lines of code is like measuring aircraft building progress by weight.

Computers have lots of memory but no imagination.

The sooner you start coding a program, the longer it will take.

When music technology takes the place of musicianship, it's time to pull the plug.

It’s really hard to design products by focus groups. A lot of times, people don’t know what they want until you show it to them.

I wish life had an Undo function.