Technology Quotes

Unix is simple. It just takes a genius to understand its simplicity.

If debugging is the process of removing bugs, then programming must be the process of putting them in.

Technology does not drive change -- it enables change.

The medium, or process, of our time - electric technology is reshaping and restructuring patterns of social interdependence and every aspect of our personal life. It is forcing us to reconsider and re-evaluate practically every thought, every action.

Technology is a gift of God. After the gift of life it is perhaps the greatest of God's gifts. It is the mother of civilizations, of arts and of sciences.

Technology innovation is starting to explode and having open-source material out there really helps this explosion. You get students and researchers involved and you get people coming through and building start ups based on open source products.

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

I had one simple idea about telling friends about arts and technology events. People in the community suggested everything else to us, and that's our theme. We're really run by the people who use the site. We just run the infrastructure, and help out with problems.

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

We started putting together a "hotlist" of favorite sites from David and myself, and we called it "Jerry's Guide to the World Wide Web" Before we knew it, people from all over the world were using this database that we created.

Good programmers use their brains, but good guidelines save us having to think out every case.

In English every word can be verbed. Would that it were so in our programming languages.

How could this be a problem in a country where we have Intel and Microsoft?

You can define advertising as the science of creating and placing media that interrupts the consumer and then gets him or her to take some action.

This is something we're very committed to, it's something that I think people are underestimating right now as they've seen some of the dot-com promises not come through. I think they're missing the fact that the basic technology is moving forward, the new platforms are here and this vision of the digital decade will be a reality.

Technology is ruled by two types of people: those who manage what they do not understand, and those who understand what they do not manage.

Optimization hinders evolution.

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

640K ought to be enough for anybody.

For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for Nature cannot be fooled.

I think there is irony in the fact that the computer is both their chief venue of communication and propaganda and also the mother of all their fears.

If McDonalds were run like a software company, one out of every hundred Big Macs would give you food poisoning, and the response would be, ‘We’re sorry, here’s a coupon for two more.

Anyone who spends their life on a computer is pretty unusual.

Computers are magnificent tools for the realization of our dreams, but no machine can replace the human spark of spirit, compassion, love, and understanding.

In programming, as in everything else, to be in error is to be reborn.