Technology Quotes

[Smart] is an elusive concept. There's a certain sharpness, an ability to absorb new facts. To ask an insightful question. To relate to domains that may not seem connected at first. A certain creativity that allows people to be effective.

The ultimate search engine would basically understand everything in the world, and it would always give you the right thing. And we're a long, long ways from that.

There are three kinds of death in this world. There's heart death, there's brain death, and there's being off the network.

Computer science education cannot make anybody an expert programmer any more than studying brushes and pigment can make somebody an expert painter.

Ooops. My brain just hit a bad sector.

Systems have sub-systems and sub-systems have sub- systems and so on ad infinitum - which is why we're always starting over.

Not until a program has been in production for at least six months will its most harmful error be discovered.

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.

Once you understand how to write a program get someone else to write it.

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

Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.

If the automobile had followed the same development cycle as the computer, a Rolls-Royce would today cost $100, get a million miles per gallon, and explode once a year, killing everyone inside.

We shouldn't build a technology to colour, or grey out, what people say. The media in general is balanced, although there are a lot of issues to be addressed that the media rightly pick up on.

Though the Chinese should adore APL, it's FORTRAN they put their money on.

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

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

Pentiums melt in your PC, not in your hand.

Today's meters are little computers.

Technology does not run an enterprise, relationships do.

The Internet? Is that thing still around?

Back up my hard drive? How do I put it in reverse?

Technology makes the world a new place.

Three things are certain: Death, taxes, and lost data. Guess which has occurred.

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

Technology presumes there's just one right way to do things and there never is.