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.

Everyone can be taught to sculpt: Michelangelo would have had to be taught not to. So it is with great programmers.

Only ten percent of the code in any given program will ever execute.

It is easier to change the specification to fit the program than vice versa.

The first 90% of the code accounts for the first 90% of the development time. The remaining 10% of the code accounts for the other 90% of the development time.

Anyone who spends their life on a computer is pretty unusual.

The computer is a moron.

It would appear that we have reached the limits of what it is possible to achieve with computer technology, although one should be careful with such statements, as they tend to sound pretty silly in 5 years.

Computers are magnificent tools for the realization of our dreams, but no machine can replace the human spark of spirit, compassion, love, and understanding.

Steve Jobs may have the apple, but Bill Gates has the entire orchard !

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

If computers get too powerful, we can organize them into a committee. That will do them in.

640K ought to be enough for anybody.

To iterate is human, to recurse divine.

We're making a major move of the Internet, and runway. Polo.com is a natural extension of both polo.com and our collection business.

Functions delay binding; data structures induce binding. Moral: Structure data late in the programming process.

Programming is like sex: one mistake and you’re providing support for a lifetime.

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

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.

The best museums and museum exhibits about science or technology give you the feeling that, hey, this is interesting, but maybe I could do something here, too.

Some things Man was never meant to know. For everything else, there's Google.

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

WWW? Nice toy, but what a waste of time.

Mac users swear by their computers. PC users swear at their computers.

Part of the inhumanity of the computer is that, once it is competently programmed and working smoothly, it is completely honest.