Technology Quotes

Results eventually reach a point at which a finer mesh no longer yields an appreciable difference. This type of convergence study helps generate accurate solutions with meshes that are sufficiently dense and yet not overly demanding of computer resources.

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

Syntactic sugar causes cancer of the semicolon.

The goal of computation is the emulation of our synthetic abilities, not the understanding of our analytic ones.

This is not a phone business. This is the smallest video camera, it's the smallest computer, smallest TV.

To turn really interesting ideas and fledgling technologies into a company that can continue to innovate for years, it requires a lot of disciplines.

I do not fear computers. I fear the lack of them.

If a listener nods his head when you're explaining your program, wake him up.

Computers in the future may have only 1,000 vacuum tubes and perhapsonly weigh 1 1/2 tons.

Science is not marginal. Like art, it is a universal possession of humanity, and scientific knowledge has become a vital part of our species' repertory. It comprises what we know of the material world with reasonable certainty. . . . Thanks to science and technology, access to factual information of all kinds is rising exponentially.

Everything should be built top-down, except the first time.

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

Treat your password like your toothbrush. Don't let anybody else use it, and get a new one every six months.

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.

Computers are like bikinis. They save people a lot of guesswork.

Technology does not drive change -- it enables change.

It is questionable if all the mechanical inventions yet made have lightened the day's toil of any human being.

The modern computer hovers between the obsolescent and the nonexistent.

It was a pivotal moment in the history of computers and the history of advertising.

If GM had kept up with technology like the computer industry has, we would all be driving $25 cars that got 1000 MPG.

In view of all the deadly computer viruses that have been spreading lately, Weekend Update would like to remind you: when you link up to another computer, you're linking up to every computer that that computer has ever linked up to.

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.

Apple really hasn't weighed in on the sub-$1,000 computer category. Their next step could be refreshing their current products and making pricing changes.

What is the difference between a Turing machine and the modern computer? It's the same as that between Hillary's ascent of Everest and the establishment of a Hilton hotel on its peak.

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.