Technology Quotes

If you don't double-click me, I can't do anything.

Not until a program has been in production for at least six months will its most harmful error be discovered.

Moore's Law - The number of transistors and resistors on a chip doubles every 24 months

Undetectable errors are infinite in variety, in contrast to detectable errors, which by definition are limited.

If google made $1 everytime someone used them to find an answer to a tech support question, they would own microsoft.

The computer programmer is a creator of universes for which he alone is responsible. Universes of virtually unlimited complexity can be created in the form of computer programs.

Things should be made as simple as possible, but not any simpler.

Americans have the right to have their medical decisions made by them and their doctors, and not by those bureaucrats sitting behind a computer screen hundreds of miles away.

Around computers it is difficult to find the correct unit of time to measure progress. Some cathedrals took a century to complete. Can you imagine the grandeur and scope of a program that would take as long?

This is not a phone business. This is the smallest video camera, it's the smallest computer, smallest TV.

Bill Gates is the pope of the personal computer industry. He decides who's going to build.

I think if you do something and it turns out pretty good, then you should go do something else wonderful, not dwell on it for too long. Just figure out what’s next.

Beware of the Turing tar-pit in which everything is possible but nothing of interest is easy.

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

Unix was not designed to stop you from doing stupid things, because that would also stop you from doing clever things.

The Web is like a dominatrix. Everywhere I turn, I see little buttons ordering me to Submit.

First, solve the problem. Then, write the code.

The Internet is the end of civilizations, cultures, interests and ethics.

My favorite thing about the Internet is that you get to go into the private world of real creeps without having to smell them.

I just bought a Mac to help me design the next Cray.

Bringing computers into the home won't change either one, but may revitalize the corner saloon.

MS-DOS isn't dead, it just smells that way.

The newest computer can merely compound, at speed, the oldest problem in the relations between human beings, and in the end the communicator will be confronted with the old problem, of what to say and how to say it.

That can be a good tax planning tool for small businesses - especially if you get a computer or something that you were planning to buy (in the coming year anyway).

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