Technology Quotes

SUPERCOMPUTER: what it sounded like before you bought it.

Our biggest demographic is the intelligent professional. They've got a computer on their desk, they've got a web browser and they check us out. We are many people's morning cup of coffee.

640K ought to be enough for anybody.

It has been said that the great scientific disciplines are examples of giants standing on the shoulders of other giants. It has also been said that the software industry is an example of midgets standing on the toes of other midgets.

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

First learn computer science and all the theory. Next develop a programming style. Then forget all that and just hack.

In a 5 year period we get one superb programming language. Only we can't control when the 5 year period will be.

A computer lets you make more mistakes faster than any invention in human history - with the possible exceptions of handguns and tequila.

Technology without hatred can be a blessing. Technology with hatred is always a disaster.

Science is supposedly the method by which we stand on the shoulders of those who came before us. In computer science, we all are standing on each others' feet.

Looking at the proliferation of personal web pages on the net, it looks like very soon everyone on earth will have 15 Megabytes of fame.

Grove giveth and Gates taketh away.

Early on, when software was developed by computer scientists, just people working with computers, people passed around software because that was how you got computers to do things.

If computers get too powerful, we can organize them into a committee. That will do them in.

The mass majority of computer users are conservative. They want to use the software they're used to using.

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".

Come to think of it, there are already a million monkeys on a million typewriters, and Usenet is nothing like Shakespeare.

[Smart] is an elusive concept. There's a certain sharpness, an ability to absorb new facts. To ask an insightful question. To relate to domains that may not seem connected at first. A certain creativity that allows people to be effective.

You can either have software quality or you can have pointer arithmetic, but you cannot have both at the same time.

Programming is like sex: one mistake and you’re providing support for a lifetime.

A Windows user spends 1/3 of his life sleeping, 1/3 working, 1/3 waiting.

Over the centuries the Indians developed sign language for communicating phenomena of interest. Programmers from different tribes (FORTRAN, LISP, ALGOL, SNOBOL, etc.) could use one that doesn't require them to carry a blackboard on their ponies.

You can’t have great software without a great team, and most software teams behave like dysfunctional families.

We will never become a truly paper-less society until the Palm Pilot folks come out with WipeMe 1.0.

Buying the right computer and getting it to work properly is no more complicated than building a nuclear reactor from wristwatch parts in a darkened room using only your teeth.