Technology Quotes

What the country needs are a few labor-making inventions.

With engineering, I view this year's failure as next year's opportunity to try it again. Failures are not something to be avoided. You want to have them happen as quickly as you can so you can make progress rapidly.

I'm a great believer in new technology and I think new technology is very scary for newspaper companies.

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.

Every program is a part of some other program and rarely fits.

Upwards of two hundred species.. mostly of the large, slow-breeding variety.. are becoming extinct here every day because more and more of the earth's carrying capacity is systematically being converted into human carrying capacity. These species are being burnt out, starved out, and squeezed out of existence.. thanks to technologies that most people, I'm afraid, think of as technologies of peace. I hope it will not be too long before the technologies that support our population explosion begin to be perceived as no less hazardous to the future of life on this planet than the endless production of radioactive wastes.

In computing, invariants are ephemeral.

Programmers are tools for converting caffeine into code.

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.

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

The greatest danger in modern technology isn't that machines will begin to think like people, but that people will begin to think like machines.

The last good thing written in C++ was the Pachelbel Canon.

Never before in history has innovation offered promise of so much to so many in so short a time.

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.

The best thing about a boolean is even if you are wrong, you are only off by a bit.

C++ : Where friends have access to your private members.

The Internet is like a giant jellyfish. You can't step on it. You can't go around it. You've got to get through it.

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.

Three things are certain: Death, taxes, and lost data. Guess which has occurred.

We have yet to see the full impact of the open, global marketplace. By 1997 all raw materials and technology will be available everywhere in the world. The only differences between countries and markets will be skill levels, education, and the level of empowerment of the workplace.

Why do we want intelligent terminals when there are so many stupid users ?

As technology advances, it reverses the characteristics of every situation again and again. The age of automation is going to be the age of "do it yourself".

Technology favors horrible people.

One good reason why computers can do more work than people is that they never have to stop and answer the phone.

If you have any trouble sounding condescending, find a Unix user to show you how it's done.