Technology Quotes

Adding programmers to a late project makes it later.

It is the framework which changes with each new technology and not just the picture within the frame.

Part of the inhumanity of the computer is that, once it is competently programmed and working smoothly, it is completely honest.

When music technology takes the place of musicianship, it's time to pull the plug.

Man is the best computer we can put aboard a spacecraft... and the only one that can be mass produced with unskilled labor.

Innovation distinguishes between a leader and a follower.

I think computer viruses should count as life. I think it says something about human nature that the only form of life we have created so far is purely destructive. We've created life in our own image.

It's very important to remember that it's your intellectual property; it's not your computer. And in the pursuit of protection of intellectual property, it's important not to defeat or undermine the security measures that people need to adopt in these days.

Microsoft: "You've got questions. We've got dancing paperclips."

Home is where you hang your @.

NO, You cannot dial 911, I'm downloading my mail !!!

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

Everyone can be taught to sculpt: Michelangelo would have had to be taught not to. So it is with great programmers.

The most important computer is the one that rages in our skulls and ever seeks that satisfactory external emulator. The standarization of real computers would be a disaster - and so it probably won't happen.

Life would be so much easier if we only had the source code.

Well Microsoft really does develop some really interesting technology.

Users /nm./: collective term for those who use computers. Users are divided into three types: novice, intermediate and expert. Novice Users: people who are afraid that simply pressing a key might break their computer. Intermediate Users: people who don't know how to fix their computer after they've just pressed a key that broke it. Expert Users: people who break other people's computers.

Technology presumes there's just one right way to do things and there never is.

Live TV died in the late 1950s, electronic bulletin boards came along in the mid-1980s, meaning there was about a 25-year gap when it was difficult to put your foot in your mouth and have people all across the country know about it.

COBOL programmers understand why women hate periods.

Dating a girl is just like writing software. Everything's going to work just fine in the testing lab (dating), but as soon as you have contract with a customer (marriage), then your program (life) is going to be facing new situations you never expected. You'll be forced to patch the code (admit you're wrong) and then the code (wife) will just end up all bloated and unmaintainable in the end.

First and foremost, the Internet is unique since it is THE only interactive medium -- and that's important because from a content, service, and communications perspective, we web folks try to take advantage of that interactivity.

Not even computers will replace committees, because committees buy computers.

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

We've arranged a civilization in which most crucial elements profoundly depend on science and technology.