Technology Quotes

Syntactic sugar causes cancer of the semicolon.

If you can't make it good, at least make it look good.

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.

Technology is ruled by two types of people: those who manage what they do not understand, and those who understand what they do not manage.

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

A friend called me up the other day and talked about investing in a dot-com that sells lobsters. Internet lobsters. Where will this end? The next day he sent me a huge package of lobsters on ice. How low can you stoop?

Efforts to protect critical computer networks have unfortunately not kept pace with the march of technology.

Users /nm./: collective term for those who use computers. Users are divided into three types: novice, intermediate and expert. Novice Users: people who are afraid that simply pressing a key might break their computer. Intermediate Users: people who don't know how to fix their computer after they've just pressed a key that broke it. Expert Users: people who break other people's computers.

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

Western society has accepted as unquestionable a technological imperative that is quite as arbitrary as the most primitive taboo: not merely the duty to foster invention and constantly to create technological novelties, but equally the duty to surrender to these novelties unconditionally, just because they are offered, without respect to their human consequences.

Computer Science is embarrassed by the computer.

There's a lot that can be done for people who are using technology in a better way.

I still have my laptop but I haven't used it. I'm a paper man, not electronic.

A hacker on a roll may be able to produce–in a period of a few months–something that a small development group (say, 7-8 people) would have a hard time getting together over a year. IBM used to report that certain programmers might be as much as 100 times as productive as other workers, or more.

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

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

Debugging is twice as hard as writing the code in the first place. Therefore, if you write the code as cleverly as possible, you are–by definition–not smart enough to debug it.

Saying that most of the computer was filled with personal images is simply not accurate.

The computer is the most extraordinary of man's technological clothing; it's an extension of our central nervous system. Beside it, the wheel is a mere hula-hoop.

The technology at the leading edge changes so rapidly that you have to keep current after you get out of school. I think probably the most important thing is having good fundamentals.

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.

If at first you don't succeed; call it version 1.0.

They have computers, and they may have other weapons of mass destruction.

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

There’s an old story about the person who wished his computer were as easy to use as his telephone. That wish has come true, since I no longer know how to use my telephone.