Technology Quotes

Any non-trivial program contains at least one error.

640K ought to be enough for anybody.

What is the difference between a Turing machine and the modern computer? It's the same as that between Hillary's ascent of Everest and the establishment of a Hilton hotel on its peak.

We've all heard that a million monkeys banging on a million typewriters will eventually reproduce the entire works of Shakespeare. Now, thanks to the Internet, we know this is not true.

If McDonalds were run like a software company, one out of every hundred Big Macs would give you food poisoning, and the response would be, ‘We’re sorry, here’s a coupon for two more.

There is only one satisfying way to boot a computer.

Science and technology revolutionize our lives, but memory, tradition and myth frame our response.

I wish life had an Undo function.

Overall, OS/2's problems fall into two categories: IBM and Microsoft.

It has been said that the great scientific disciplines are examples of giants standing on the shoulders of other giants. It has also been said that the software industry is an example of midgets standing on the toes of other midgets.

Orchestras only need to be sworn at, and a German is consequently at an advantage with them, as English profanity, except in America, has not gone beyond a limited technology of perdition.

Hacking is like sex. You get in, you get out, and hope that you didn't leave something that can be traced back to you.

Computers will never replace good old-fashioned human stupidity.

Programming today is a race between software engineers striving to build bigger and better idiot-proof programs, and the Universe trying to produce bigger and better idiots. So far, the Universe is winning.

We are now able to see things in nature of what was previously only available in computer simulation.

Within a computer natural language is unnatural.

If a program is useful, it will have to be changed.

We always overestimate the change that will occur in the next two years and underestimate the change that will occur in the next ten. Don't let yourself be lulled into inaction.

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.

We're changing the world with technology.

Today is a... digital incarnation of Oz - the Internet - we are a motley group of fools from lions to scarecrows, learning from each other, making and taking responsibility for our decisions, and having fun as we skip down the yellow brick road of investing together!

A programming language is low level when its programs require attention to the irrelevant.

Unfortunately this was an older file that this person hadn't opened in quite a while. The person who uses this computer had missed it.

Any teacher that can be replaced by a computer, deserves to be.

Spending an evening on the World Wide Web is much like sitting down to a dinner of Cheetos, two hours later your fingers are yellow and you're no longer hungry, but you haven't been nourished.