Technology Quotes

If we believe in data structures, we must believe in independent (hence simultaneous) processing. For why else would we collect items within a structure? Why do we tolerate languages that give us the one without the other?

I get mail, therefore I am.

The greatest danger in modern technology isn't that machines will begin to think like people, but that people will begin to think like machines.

Why is it drug addicts and computer afficionados are both called users?

Always code as if the guy who ends up maintaining your code will be a violent psychopath who knows where you live.

Whereas knights of old wore armor of plate, the modern knights of the air wear the invisible but magic armor of confidence in technology.

Technological progress has merely provided us with more efficient means for going backwards.

Advances in computer technology and the Internet have changed the way America works, learns, and communicates. The Internet has become an integral part of America's economic, political, and social life.

We started putting together a "hotlist" of favorite sites from David and myself, and we called it "Jerry's Guide to the World Wide Web" Before we knew it, people from all over the world were using this database that we created.

Beware of the Turing tar-pit in which everything is possible but nothing of interest is easy.

Worth noting: running 'reboot -h' does NOT produce a helpful usage message.

I'm struck by the insidious, computer-driven tendency to take things out of the domain of muscular activity and put them into the domain of mental activity.

Within a computer natural language is unnatural.

One machine can do the work of fifty ordinary men. No machine can do the work of one extraordinary man.

All programmers are playwrights and all computers are lousy actors.

Computer Science is embarrassed by the computer.

Optimization hinders evolution.

Adding programmers to a late project makes it later.

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.

Complexity kills. It sucks the life out of developers, it makes products difficult to plan, build and test, it introduces security challenges, and it causes end-user and administrator frustration.

The world is coming to an end... SAVE YOUR BUFFERS!

Programmers are in a race with the Universe to create bigger and better idiot-proof programs, while the Universe is trying to create bigger and better idiots. So far the Universe is winning.

Structured Programming supports the law of the excluded muddle.

Paper is no longer a big part of my day. I get 90% of my news online, and when I go to a meeting and want to jot things down, I bring my Tablet PC. It's fully synchronized with my office machine so I have all the files I need.

The digital revolution is far more significant than the invention of writing or even of printing.