Technology Quotes

The debate rages on: is PL/I Bachtrian or Dromedary?

We have technology, finally, that for the first time in human history allows people to really maintain rich connections with much larger numbers of people.

Looking at the proliferation of personal web pages on the net, it looks like very soon everyone on earth will have 15 Megabytes of fame.

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

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.

Back up my hard disk ? I can't find the reverse switch !

The federal government is like a handicapped turtle trying to crawl around and keep up with the rabbit, which is technology.

Windows NT addresses 2 Gigabytes of RAM, which is more than any application will ever need.

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.

When you’re young, you look at television and think, there’s a conspiracy. The networks have conspired to dumb us down. But when you get a little older, you realize that’s not true. The networks are in business to give people exactly what they want. That’s a far more depressing thought. Conspiracy is optimistic! You can shoot the bastards! We can have a revolution! But the networks are really in business to give people what they want. It’s the truth.

Overall, OS/2's problems fall into two categories: IBM and Microsoft.

The great thing about a computer notebook is that no matter how much you stuff into it, it doesn't get bigger or heavier.

A computer will do what you tell it to do, but that may be much different from what you had in mind.

Most software today is very much like an Egyptian pyramid with millions of bricks piled on top of each other, with no structural integrity, but just done by brute force and thousands of slaves.

I am a hard-core believer that the clean desktop is the way to go... At the same time, we told OEMs that if they were going to put a bunch of icons on the desktop, then so were we.

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

Any non-trivial program contains at least one error.

Microsoft has a new version out, Windows XP, which according to everybody is the ‘most reliable Windows ever.‘ To me, this is like saying that asparagus is ‘the most articulate vegetable ever.

There's a whole kind of hip element to it -- now I need this. Right smack in the middle of the 21st century, sophistication is marrying itself to a very old-fashioned notion of a table where you play games, long before television, video games and home computers. The deck of cards now has become cool again.

MS-DOS isn't dead, it just smells that way.

Technology makes the world a new place.

The mass majority of computer users are conservative. They want to use the software they're used to using.

You can’t have great software without a great team, and most software teams behave like dysfunctional families.

We kid ourselves if we think that the ratio of procedure to data in an active data-base system can be made arbitrarily small or even kept small.

Computers are useless. They can only give you answers.