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.

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

They say if you play a Microsoft CD backwards, you hear satanic messages. Thats nothing, cause if you play it forwards, it installs Windows.

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

Orchestras only need to be sworn at, and a German is consequently at an advantage with them, as English profanity, except in America, has not gone beyond a limited technology of perdition.

The debate rages on: is PL/I Bachtrian or Dromedary?

If GM had kept up with technology like the computer industry has, we would all be driving $25 cars that got 1000 MPG.

Two men were examining the output of the new computer in their department. After an hour or so of analyzing the data, one of them remarked: "Do you realize it would take 400 men at least 250 years to make a mistake this big ?

The computer programmer is a creator of universes for which he alone is responsible. Universes of virtually unlimited complexity can be created in the form of computer programs.

Users /nm./: collective term for those who use computers. Users are divided into three types: novice, intermediate and expert. Novice Users: people who are afraid that simply pressing a key might break their computer. Intermediate Users: people who don't know how to fix their computer after they've just pressed a key that broke it. Expert Users: people who break other people's computers.

Well, another market is being created now out of Internet technology.

I think one of the big errors people are making right now is thinking that old-style businesses will be obsolete, when actually they will be an important part of this new civilization. Some retail groups are introducing e-commerce and think that the "bricks" are no longer useful. But they will continue to be important.

Yesterday it worked Today it is not working Windows is like that

If a program is useful, it will have to be changed.

When we write programs that "learn", it turns out that we do and they don't.

One can only display complex information in the mind. Like seeing, movement or flow or alteration of view is more important than the static picture, no matter how lovely.

The computing field is always in need of new cliches.

The only business that is ever threatened by improved technologies are those that need to be left behind.

We’re gambling on our vision, and we would rather do that than make “me too” products. Let some other companies do that. For us, it’s always the next dream.

Interfaces keep things tidy, but don't accelerate growth: Functions do.

People keep asking me what I think of it now that it's done. Hence my protest: The Web is not done!

I just bought a Mac to help me design the next Cray.

Program complexity grows until it exceeds the capabilities of the programmer who must maintain it.

Science and technology revolutionize our lives, but memory, tradition and myth frame our response.

Ooops. My brain just hit a bad sector.