Technology Quotes

Not everything that can be counted counts, and not everything that counts can be counted.

Optimization hinders evolution.

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

Computers can figure out all kinds of problems, except the things in the world that just don't add up.

The Star Trek computer doesn't seem that interesting. They ask it random questions, it thinks for a while. I think we can do better than that.

Vista is the the George W Bush of the technology industry.

Should array indices start at 0 or 1? My compromise of 0.5 was rejected without, I thought, proper consideration.

The most important computer is the one that rages in our skulls and ever seeks that satisfactory external emulator. The standarization of real computers would be a disaster - and so it probably won't happen.

Re graphics: A picture is worth 10K words - but only those to describe the picture. Hardly any sets of 10K words can be adequately described with pictures.

Good code is its own best documentation.

Capitalist production, therefore, develops technology, and the combining together of various processes into a social whole, only by sapping the original sources of all wealth - the soil and the labourer.

Unix is user-friendly. It's just very selective about who its friends are.

First, solve the problem. Then, write the code.

Microsoft has had its success by doing low-cost products and constantly improving those products and we've really redefined the IT industry to be something that's about a tool for individuals.

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.

It’s ridiculous to live 100 years and only be able to remember 30 million bytes. You know, less than a compact disc. The human condition is really becoming more obsolete every minute.

A carelessly planned project takes three times longer to complete than expected; a carefully planned project takes only twice as long.

The best way to prepare [to be a programmer] is to write programs, and to study great programs that other people have written. In my case, I went to the garbage cans at the Computer Science Center and fished out listings of their operating system.

It's just like a computer. The more you load up, the slower it gets, the more issues arise.

I want people to understand the amazing, positive way our software can make leisure time more enjoyable, and work and businesses more successful.

First and foremost, the Internet is unique since it is THE only interactive medium -- and that's important because from a content, service, and communications perspective, we web folks try to take advantage of that interactivity.

Bill Gates is so rich because he got his wish when he said: 'I wish I had a nickel for every time a PC reboots'.

Moore's Law - The number of transistors and resistors on a chip doubles every 24 months

Hardware: where the people in your company's software section will tell you the problem is. Software: where the people in your company's hardware section will tell you the problem is.

Americans have the right to have their medical decisions made by them and their doctors, and not by those bureaucrats sitting behind a computer screen hundreds of miles away.