Technology Quotes

Computers are useless. They can only give you answers.

In software, we rarely have meaningful requirements. Even if we do, the only measure of success that matters is whether our solution solves the customer’s shifting idea of what their problem is.

Most software today is very much like an Egyptian pyramid with millions of bricks piled on top of each other, with no structural integrity, but just done by brute force and thousands of slaves.

Technology is a gift of God. After the gift of life it is perhaps the greatest of God's gifts. It is the mother of civilizations, of arts and of sciences.

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

Computer Science is no more about computers than astronomy is about telescopes.

Motto for a research laboratory: What we work on today, others will first think of tomorrow.

Over the centuries the Indians developed sign language for communicating phenomena of interest. Programmers from different tribes (FORTRAN, LISP, ALGOL, SNOBOL, etc.) could use one that doesn't require them to carry a blackboard on their ponies.

Adding programmers to a late project makes it later.

I'm a great believer in new technology and I think new technology is very scary for newspaper companies.

Real programmers can write assembly code in any language.

A printer consists of three main parts: the case, the jammed paper tray and the blinking red light.

One does not learn computing by using a hand calculator, but one can forget arithmetic.

We're changing the world with technology.

Everybody who runs a Web site knows we're not assured of compatibility.

Any fool can use a computer. Many do.

After a day spent staring at a computer monitor, think of (a) book as a kind of screen saver for your brain.

Part of the inhumanity of the computer is that, once it is competently programmed and working smoothly, it is completely honest.

Technology is the drug of choice for most Americans. Source unknown Theory: when you have ideas. Ideology: when ideas have you.

There are so many ways to heal. Arrogance may have a place in technology, but not in healing. I need to get out of my own way if I am to heal.

People say Microsoft paid $14M for using the Rolling Stones song 'Start me up' in their commercials. This is wrong. Microsoft payed $14M only for a part of the song. For instance, they didn't use the line 'You'll make a grown man cry'.

We're making a major move of the Internet, and runway. Polo.com is a natural extension of both polo.com and our collection business.

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.

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

Simplicity does not precede complexity, but follows it.