Technology Quotes

There are two ways to write error-free programs; only the third one works.

Recursion is the root of computation since it trades description for time.

From then on, when anything went wrong with a computer, we said it had bugs in it.

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

It would appear that we have reached the limits of what it is possible to achieve with computer technology, although one should be careful with such statements, as they tend to sound pretty silly in 5 years.

Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.

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!

Imagine a school with children that can read or write, but with teachers who cannot, and you have a metaphor of the Information Age in which we live.

Bill Gates is so rich because he got his wish when he said: 'I wish I had a nickel for every time a PC reboots'.

If you automate a mess, you get an automated mess.

To err is human--and to blame it on a computer is even more so.

In headlines today, the dreaded killfile virus spread across the country adding 'aol.com' to people's Usenet kill files everywhere. The programmer of the virus still remains anonymous, but has been nominated several times for a Nobel peace prize.

The great thing about Object Oriented code is that it can make small, simple problems look like large, complex ones.

Computers make it easier to do a lot of things, but most of the things they make it easier to do don't need to be done.

Be nice to geeks when you're in school, you might end-up working for one when you grow-up.

A program without a loop and a structured variable isn't worth writing.

Computers will never replace good old-fashioned human stupidity.

The ultimate search engine would basically understand everything in the world, and it would always give you the right thing. And we're a long, long ways from that.

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

In a world without walls and fences, who needs Windows and Gates ?

There are only two kinds of programming languages: those people always bitch about and those nobody uses.

Some programming languages manage to absorb change, but withstand progress.

Americans have the right to have their medical decisions made by them and their doctors, and not by those bureaucrats sitting behind a computer screen hundreds of miles away.

Any non-trivial program contains at least one error.

Fifty years of programming language research, and we end up with C++?