Technology Quotes

Writing code has a place in the human hierarchy worth somewhere above grave robbing and beneath managing.

Sometimes I think the only universal in the computing field is the fetch-execute cycle.

The computer provides the only way to give students a real foundation in 21st-century skills.

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

MS-DOS, an OS originally designed for a microprocessor that modern kitchen appliances would sneer at.

I completely love playing and designing games and always will. I am so into games that I listen to game music all day. That may sound strange, but you can guarantee I'm a hardcore gamer and would never let you down by designing a crappy title.

If two people write exactly the same program, each should be put into microcode and then they certainly won't be the same.

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The trouble with programmers is that you can never tell what a programmer is doing until it’s too late.

Paper returns done by hand have an 80 percent accuracy rate, or 20 percent error rate. E-file has more than a 99 percent accuracy rate, because the computer does all the work for you.

Pentiums melt in your PC, not in your hand.

The term reboot comes from the middle age (before computers). Horses who stopped in mid-stride required a boot to the rear to start again. Thus the term to rear-boot, later abbreviated into reboot.

Two men were examining the output of the new computer in their department. After an hour or so of analyzing the data, one of them remarked: "Do you realize it would take 400 men at least 250 years to make a mistake this big ?

You know you're a geek when... You try to shoo a fly away from the monitor with your cursor. That just happened to me. It was scary.

A thunderstorm is God's way of saying you spend too much time in front of the computer.

Debugging is twice as hard as writing the code in the first place. Therefore, if you write the code as cleverly as possible, you are–by definition–not smart enough to debug it.

Like car accidents, most hardware problems are due to driver error.

From the time I was 7, when I purchased my first calculator, I was fascinated by the idea of a machine that could compute things.

Because of its vitality, the computing field is always in desperate need of new cliches: Banality soothes our nerves.

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

Computers can figure out all kinds of problems, except the things in the world that just don't add up.

Of course, the best way to get accurate information on Usenet is to post something wrong and wait for corrections.

Windows is just DOS in drag.

What do people mean when they say the computer went down on them?

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