Technology Quotes

If we had had the right technology back then, you would have seen Eva Braun on the Donahue show and Adolf Hitler on Meet the Press.

If a program is useless, it will have to be documented.

That’s what’s cool about working with computers. They don’t argue, they remember everything, and they don’t drink all your beer.

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

Better to be a geek than an idiot.

The science of today is the technology of tomorrow.

Some say Google is God. Others say Google is Satan. But if they think Google is too powerful, remember that with search engines unlike other companies, all it takes is a single click to go to another search engine.

Technology favors horrible people.

Imagination is more important than knowledge. For knowledge is limited to all we now know and understand, while imagination embraces the entire world, and all there ever will be to know and understand.

We are now able to see things in nature of what was previously only available in computer simulation.

Home is where you hang your @.

Apparently, Windows 98 is going to be renamed 'Diana, Princess of Windows'. It's overrated, overpriced, consumes loads of resources and crashes spectacularly...

The Internet? Is that thing still around?

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

Life would be so much easier if we only had the source code.

The US Nuclear Security Administration runs the Blue Gene supercomputer. It is supposed to be the top super computer in the world ? and it runs on GNU Linux. Of the top 10 super computers in the world, seven run on GNU Linux. From a security point of view, there is a case to be made.

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.

Technology does not drive change -- it enables change.

A complex system that works is invariably found to have evolved from a simple system that worked.

Be nice to nerds. Chances are you'll end up working for one.

There's no set architecture in Linux. All roads lead to madness.

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.

One would think that if you're anonymous, you'd do anything you want, but groups have their own sense of community and what we can do.

Real programmers can write assembly code in any language.

A friend called me up the other day and talked about investing in a dot-com that sells lobsters. Internet lobsters. Where will this end? The next day he sent me a huge package of lobsters on ice. How low can you stoop?