Technology Quotes

We're seeing how the videos translate to the live shows and how the technology is really reaching kids.

I’ve finally learned what ‘upward compatible’ means. It means we get to keep all our old mistakes.

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.

Adapting old programs to fit new machines usually means adapting new machines to behave like old ones.

There's no set architecture in Linux. All roads lead to madness.

The computer reminds one of Lon Chaney -- it is the machine of a thousand faces.

After growing wildly for years, the field of computing appears to be reaching its infancy.

The advance of technology is based on making it fit in so that you don't really even notice it, so it's part of everyday life.

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.

Technology has the shelf life of a banana.

WinNT: All the headaches of Unix, but in a pretty, windowed environment.

A computer makes it possible to do, in half an hour, tasks which were completely unnecessary to do before.

The string is a stark data structure and everywhere it is passed there is much duplication of process. It is a perfect vehicle for hiding information.

Like punning, programming is a play on words.

All of the biggest technological inventions created by man - the airplane, the automobile, the computer - says little about his intelligence, but speaks volumes about his laziness.

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.

Why is it drug addicts and computer afficionados are both called users?

The Linux philosophy is "Laugh in the face of danger". Oops. Wrong One. "Do it yourself". Yes, that's it.

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.

I'm not anti-social; I'm just not user friendly.

I get mail, therefore I am.

Any code of your own that you haven’t looked at for six or more months might as well have been written by someone else.

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

What boots up must come down.

Any significant boost in technology could just as easily be a rigged demo.