Technology Quotes

We are very much believers that the web is an open environment, and we need to make sure that people can find all kinds of different stuff through Yahoo!, and not necessarily keeping people within Yahoo!

It is practically impossible to teach good programming style to students that have had prior exposure to BASIC. As potential programmers, they are mentally mutilated beyond hope of regeneration.

The computer is a moron.

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.

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

Better to be a geek than an idiot.

I get Canadian porno - that's the extent of satellite service and Internet in my house.

I think that it's always possible to have a great company if you have great ideas. I will say that since the web has become more commercialized, it also takes some good financial resources to build a great business, but as I always say, you have to have the idea first.

The string is a stark data structure and everywhere it is passed there is much duplication of process. It is a perfect vehicle for hiding information.

I’ve finally learned what ‘upward compatible’ means. It means we get to keep all our old mistakes.

Programmers are not to be measured by their ingenuity and their logic but by the completeness of their case analysis.

As soon as we started programming, we found to our surprise that it wasn’t as easy to get programs right as we had thought. Debugging had to be discovered. I can remember the exact instant when I realized that a large part of my life from then on was going to be spent in finding mistakes in my own programs.

Always code as if the guy who ends up maintaining your code will be a violent psychopath who knows where you live.

Beware of the Turing tar-pit in which everything is possible but nothing of interest is easy.

C++ : Where friends have access to your private members.

The number one benefit of information technology is that it empowers people to do what they want to do. It lets people be creative. It lets people be productive. It lets people learn things they didn't think they could learn before, and so in a sense it is all about potential.

There never was a chip, it is said, that Bill Gates couldn't slow down with a new batch of features.

The computing field is always in need of new cliches.

If computers had invented humans as part of a BI program (biological intelligence), humans would have been tossed aside as barely having achieved perfect game play at Tic-Tac-Toe.

The more I C, the less I see.

Applying computer technology is simply finding the right wrench to pound in the correct screw.

When we first started, we would message all the time, ... He would log on, and mostly we would just message back and forth at the beginning of the relationship. Now, we use the computer, phones, letters, airlines - everything.

Windows isn't a virus, viruses do something.

Macintosh computer are easy to use. It's also easy to stick your hand in a wood chipper.

What is the difference between a Turing machine and the modern computer? It's the same as that between Hillary's ascent of Everest and the establishment of a Hilton hotel on its peak.