Technology Quotes

Computers in the future may have only 1,000 vacuum tubes and perhapsonly weigh 1 1/2 tons.

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

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

The term reboot comes from the middle age (before computers). Horses who stopped in mid-stride required a boot to the rear to start again. Thus the term to rear-boot, later abbreviated into reboot.

From then on, when anything went wrong with a computer, we said it had bugs in it.

The purpose of medicine is to prevent significant disease, to decrease pain and to postpone death... Technology has to support these goals-if not, it may even be counterproductive.

A program is never less than 90% complete, and never more than 95% complete.

Structured Programming supports the law of the excluded muddle.

A great lathe operator commands several times the wage of an average lathe operator, but a great writer of software code is worth 10,000 times the price of an average software writer.

I think one of the big errors people are making right now is thinking that old-style businesses will be obsolete, when actually they will be an important part of this new civilization. Some retail groups are introducing e-commerce and think that the "bricks" are no longer useful. But they will continue to be important.

eBay's business is based on enabling someone to do business with another person, and to do that, they first have to develop some measure of trust, either in the other person or the system.

If we continue to develop our technology without wisdom or prudence, our servant may prove to be our executioner.

MS-DOS, an OS originally designed for a microprocessor that modern kitchen appliances would sneer at.

Things should be made as simple as possible, but not any simpler.

Information and communications technology unlocks the value of time, allowing and enabling multi-tasking, multi-channels, multi-this and multi-that.

Structured Programming supports the law of the excluded muddle.

There are only two industries that refer to their customers as ‘users’.

It is easier to write an incorrect program than understand a correct one.

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.

Computation has made the tree flower.

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.

If two people write exactly the same program, each should be put into microcode and then they certainly won't be the same.

Undetectable errors are infinite in variety, in contrast to detectable errors, which by definition are limited.

I wish life had an Undo function.

The Internet is becoming the town square for the global village of tomorrow.