Technology Quotes

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

Considering the flames and intolerance, shouldn't USENET be spelled ABUSENET?

The Internet: where men are men, women are men, and children are FBI agents.

Programming is an unnatural act.

If debugging is the process of removing bugs, then programming must be the process of putting them in.

There are managers so preoccupied with their e-mail messages that they never look up from their screens to see what's happening in the nondigital world.

Programmers are in a race with the Universe to create bigger and better idiot-proof programs, while the Universe is trying to create bigger and better idiots. So far the Universe is winning.

Every day were saying, 'How can we keep this customer happy?' How can we get ahead in innovation by doing this, because if we don't, somebody else will.

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.

Often it is the means that justify the ends: Goals advance technique and technique survives even when goal structures crumble.

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

Considering the current sad state of our computer programs, software development is clearly still a black art, and cannot yet be called an engineering discipline.

A year spent in artificial intelligence is enough to make one believe in God.

If Gore invented the Internet, I invented spell-check.

Back up my hard disk ? I can't find the reverse switch !

Windows NT addresses 2 Gigabytes of RAM, which is more than any application will ever need.

I had one simple idea about telling friends about arts and technology events. People in the community suggested everything else to us, and that's our theme. We're really run by the people who use the site. We just run the infrastructure, and help out with problems.

The march of science and technology does not imply growing intellectual complexity in the lives of most people. It often means the opposite.

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

Any given program, once deployed, is already obsolete.

Technology favors horrible people.

Making something variable is easy. Controlling duration of constancy is the trick.

If you don't want to be replaced by a computer, don't act like one.

Whenever two programmers meet to criticize their programs, both are silent.

The best museums and museum exhibits about science or technology give you the feeling that, hey, this is interesting, but maybe I could do something here, too.