Technology Quotes

Orchestras only need to be sworn at, and a German is consequently at an advantage with them, as English profanity, except in America, has not gone beyond a limited technology of perdition.

A computer is like an Old Testament god, with a lot of rules and no mercy.

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

That’s the thing about people who think they hate computers. What they really hate is lousy programmers.

If a listener nods his head when you're explaining your program, wake him up.

We're seeing how the videos translate to the live shows and how the technology is really reaching kids.

If you have a procedure with ten parameters, you probably missed some.

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

Silos can't interoperate unless the technology does.

Writing code has a place in the human hierarchy worth somewhere above grave robbing and beneath managing.

For systems, the analogue of a face-lift is to add to the control graph an edge that creates a cycle, not just an additional node.

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

Microsoft is now talking about the digital nervous system... I guess I would be nervous if my system was built on their technology too.

The "Net is a waste of time, and that's exactly what's right about it.

Microsoft is not the answer. Microsoft is the question. NO is the answer.

All of the books in the world contain no more information than is broadcast as video in a single large American city in a single year. Not all bits have equal value.

We've all heard that a million monkeys banging on a million typewriters will eventually reproduce the entire works of Shakespeare. Now, thanks to the Internet, we know this is not true.

'Intel Inside': The world's most widely used warning label.

Technology does not drive change -- it enables change.

In the long run every program becomes rococo - then rubble.

Technology is like a fish. The longer it stays on the shelf, the less desirable it becomes.

If your computer speaks English, it was probably made in Japan.

Over the centuries the Indians developed sign language for communicating phenomena of interest. Programmers from different tribes (FORTRAN, LISP, ALGOL, SNOBOL, etc.) could use one that doesn't require them to carry a blackboard on their ponies.

Computer : a million morons working at the speed of light.

Once a new technology rolls over you, if you're not part of the steamroller, you're part of the road.