Technology Quotes

The best programmers are not marginally better than merely good ones. They are an order-of-magnitude better, measured by whatever standard: conceptual creativity, speed, ingenuity of design, or problem-solving ability.

Computers will never replace good old-fashioned human stupidity.

The Internet is a great way to get on the net.

Technology: No Place for Wimps!

Think of all the psychic energy expended in seeking a fundamental distinction between "algorithm" and "program".

Every day were saying, 'How can we keep this customer happy?' How can we get ahead in innovation by doing this, because if we don't, somebody else will.

If the automobile had followed the same development cycle as the computer, a Rolls-Royce would today cost $100, get a million miles per gallon, and explode once a year, killing everyone inside.

It makes life difficult ... because law changes very slowly. We have judges who did not grow up with computers and so many do not understand the technology and issues it raises.

Food for thought: A fully-protected-and-updated Windows box cannot, by definition, have an uptime of more than 30 days.

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

We're only at the beginning of what we have to do here.

Within a computer natural language is unnatural.

When we first started, we would message all the time, ... He would log on, and mostly we would just message back and forth at the beginning of the relationship. Now, we use the computer, phones, letters, airlines - everything.

The use of COBOL cripples the mind; its teaching should therefore be regarded as a criminal offense.

Better to be a geek than an idiot.

When someone says "I want a programming language in which I need only say what I wish done," give him a lollipop.

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

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

Some people think technology has the answers.

Hardware: where the people in your company's software section will tell you the problem is. Software: where the people in your company's hardware section will tell you the problem is.

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

Any given program, once deployed, is already obsolete.

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

I get Canadian porno - that's the extent of satellite service and Internet in my house.

When we understand knowledge-based systems, it will be as before -- except our fingertips will have been singed.