Technology Quotes

Windows NT crashed. I am the Blue Screen of Death. No one hears your screams.

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

And bring me a hard copy of the Internet so I can do some serious surfing.

AOL is like the cockroach left after the nuclear bomb hits. They know how to survive.

The Net interprets censorship as damage and routes around it.

The bulk of all patents are crap. Spending time reading them is stupid. It’s up to the patent owner to do so, and to enforce them.

Often it is the means that justify the ends: Goals advance technique and technique survives even when goal structures crumble.

Recursion is the root of computation since it trades description for time.

First words on the first telephone - "Mr. Watson -- come here -- I want to see you."

There's a lot of Google fascination out there and we share it, and we're going to compete, we're going to compete very, very hard.

When we understand knowledge-based systems, it will be as before -- except our fingertips will have been singed.

When we first started, we would message all the time, ... He would log on, and mostly we would just message back and forth at the beginning of the relationship. Now, we use the computer, phones, letters, airlines - everything.

I think one of the big errors people are making right now is thinking that old-style businesses will be obsolete, when actually they will be an important part of this new civilization. Some retail groups are introducing e-commerce and think that the "bricks" are no longer useful. But they will continue to be important.

Not even computers will replace committees, because committees buy computers.

In software, we rarely have meaningful requirements. Even if we do, the only measure of success that matters is whether our solution solves the customer’s shifting idea of what their problem is.

Unfortunately this was an older file that this person hadn't opened in quite a while. The person who uses this computer had missed it.

The only constructive theory connecting neuroscience and psychology will arise from the study of software.

We're responsible for the creation of the PC industry. The whole idea of compatible machines and lots of software.. that's something we brought to computing. And so it's a responsibility for us to make sure that things like security don't get in the way of that dream.

The best book on programming for the layman is "Alice in Wonderland"; but that's because it's the best book on anything for the layman.

It is not a language's weakness but its strengths that control the gradient of its change: Alas, a language never escapes its embryonic sac.

The computer programmer is a creator of universes for which he alone is responsible. Universes of virtually unlimited complexity can be created in the form of computer programs.

There are so many ways to heal. Arrogance may have a place in technology, but not in healing. I need to get out of my own way if I am to heal.

Windows isn't a virus, viruses do something.

Better to be a geek than an idiot.

Spending an evening on the World Wide Web is much like sitting down to a dinner of Cheetos, two hours later your fingers are yellow and you're no longer hungry, but you haven't been nourished.