Technology Quotes

When we understand knowledge-based systems, it will be as before -- except our fingertips will have been singed.

If a program is useless, it will have to be documented.

The best way to prepare [to be a programmer] is to write programs, and to study great programs that other people have written. In my case, I went to the garbage cans at the Computer Science Center and fished out listings of their operating system.

The protection of personal information stored on our nation's computer systems is critical to public trust in those networks and to the health of our economy.

If computers get too powerful, we can organize them into a committee. That will do them in.

So many good ideas are never heard from again once they embark in a voyage on the semantic gulf.

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.

Don't have good ideas if you aren't willing to be responsible for them.

Better to be a geek than an idiot.

There is no programming language–no matter how structured–that will prevent programmers from making bad programs.

It is better to have 100 functions operate on one data structure than 10 functions on 10 data structures.

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!

The most important and urgent problems of the technology of today are no longer the satisfactions of primary needs or of archetypal wishes, but the reparation of the evils and damages by technology of yesterday.

How could this be a problem in a country where we have Intel and Microsoft?

Difference between a virus and windows ? Viruses rarely fail.

Microsoft is now talking about the digital nervous system... I guess I would be nervous if my system was built on their technology too.

Adding programmers to a late project makes it later.

Life is about family and technology.

Not everything that can be counted counts, and not everything that counts can be counted.

The Internet is not just one thing, it's a collection of things - of numerous communications networks that all speak the same digital language.

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

First learn computer science and all the theory. Next develop a programming style. Then forget all that and just hack.

Technology favors horrible people.

Computers will never replace good old-fashioned human stupidity.

If you can't make it good, at least make it look good.