Technology Quotes

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

If you have a procedure with ten parameters, you probably missed some.

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

Get into a rut early: Do the same process the same way. Accumulate idioms. Standardize. The only difference(!) between Shakespeare and you was the size of his idiom list - not the size of his vocabulary.

It makes life difficult ... because law changes very slowly. We have judges who did not grow up with computers and so many do not understand the technology and issues it raises.

We're changing the world with technology.

Within a computer natural language is unnatural.

Don’t worry if it doesn’t work right. If everything did, you’d be out of a job.

This is not a phone business. This is the smallest video camera, it's the smallest computer, smallest TV.

There is so much media now with the Internet and people, and so easy and so cheap to start a newspaper or start a magazine, there’s just millions of voices and people want to be heard.

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

The cybernetic exchange between man, computer and algorithm is like a game of musical chairs: The frantic search for balance always leaves one of the three standing ill at ease.

In programming, everything we do is a special case of something more general -- and often we know it too quickly.

There are two ways of constructing a software design. One way is to make it so simple that there are obviously no deficiencies. And the other way is to make it so complicated that there are no obvious deficiencies.

If future generations are to remember us more with gratitude than sorrow, we must achieve more than just the miracles of technology. We must also leave them a glimpse of the world as it was created, not just as it looked when we got through with it.

To iterate is human, to recurse divine.

I can't uninstall it, there seems to be some kind of 'Uninstall Shield'.

Technological progress has merely provided us with more efficient means for going backwards.

A complex system that works is invariably found to have evolved from a simple system that worked.

You think you know when you can learn, are more sure when you can write, even more when you can teach, but certain when you can program.

Giving up on assembly language was the apple in our Garden of Eden: Languages whose use squanders machine cycles are sinful. The LISP machine now permits LISP programmers to abandon bra and fig-leaf.

Chaos reigns within. Reflect, repent, and reboot. Order shall return.

I think if you do something and it turns out pretty good, then you should go do something else wonderful, not dwell on it for too long. Just figure out what’s next.

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.

Some say Google is God. Others say Google is Satan. But if they think Google is too powerful, remember that with search engines unlike other companies, all it takes is a single click to go to another search engine.