Technology Quotes

Computers, huh? I've heard it all boils down to just a bunch of ones and zeroes.... I don't know how that enables me to see naked women, but however it works, God bless you guys.

The modern computer hovers between the obsolescent and the nonexistent.

It is practically impossible to teach good programming style to students that have had prior exposure to BASIC. As potential programmers, they are mentally mutilated beyond hope of regeneration.

From then on, when anything went wrong with a computer, we said it had bugs in it.

Technology is always evolving, and companies.. not just search companies.. can't be afraid to take advantage of change.

There used to be this country called the Soviet Union; it's not there anymore. Our technology was better than theirs.

Better to be a geek than an idiot.

Pixar is the most technically advanced creative company; Apple is the most creatively advanced technical company.

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

Syntactic sugar causes cancer of the semicolon.

Symmetry is a complexity-reducing concept (co-routines include subroutines); seek it everywhere.

Ever notice how fast Windows runs ? — Neither did I.

Is it possible that software is not like anything else, that it is meant to be discarded: that the whole point is to see it as a soap bubble?

It would appear that we have reached the limits of what it is possible to achieve with computer technology, although one should be careful with such statements, as they tend to sound pretty silly in 5 years.

Measuring programming progress by lines of code is like measuring aircraft building progress by weight.

We're responsible for the creation of the PC industry. The whole idea of compatible machines and lots of software.. that's something we brought to computing. And so it's a responsibility for us to make sure that things like security don't get in the way of that dream.

It would take a lot of time and effort (to repair the computers). And they can't run (programs and games) kids are interested in today. They're not even on the Internet. We wouldn't be offering them much of a carrot.

Some programming languages manage to absorb change, but withstand progress.

Science is not marginal. Like art, it is a universal possession of humanity, and scientific knowledge has become a vital part of our species' repertory. It comprises what we know of the material world with reasonable certainty. . . . Thanks to science and technology, access to factual information of all kinds is rising exponentially.

Optimism is an occupational hazard of programming; feedback is the treatment.

Just about anyone can pass if they have a home computer and are a quick study.

We don’t have a traditional strategy process, planning process like you’d find in traditional technical companies. It allows Google to innovate very, very quickly, which I think is a real strength of the company.

Advances in computer technology and the Internet have changed the way America works, learns, and communicates. The Internet has become an integral part of America's economic, political, and social life.

The computer is a moron.

Real programmers can write assembly code in any language.