Technology Quotes

In view of all the deadly computer viruses that have been spreading lately, Weekend Update would like to remind you: when you link up to another computer, you're linking up to every computer that that computer has ever linked up to.

There is no programming language–no matter how structured–that will prevent programmers from making bad programs.

Inside every small program is a large program struggling to get out.

Look at growth, look at how much time people spend on the Net and look at the variety of things that they are doing. It's all really good, so I am actually encouraged by the fundamentals that underlie usage growth on the Net.

WWW? Nice toy, but what a waste of time.

Like car accidents, most hardware problems are due to driver error.

To better understand why you need a personal computer, let's take a look at the pathetic mess you call your life.

The computer is a moron.

Live TV died in the late 1950s, electronic bulletin boards came along in the mid-1980s, meaning there was about a 25-year gap when it was difficult to put your foot in your mouth and have people all across the country know about it.

The best thing about a boolean is even if you are wrong, you are only off by a bit.

There is only one satisfying way to boot a computer.

Imagine a school with children that can read or write, but with teachers who cannot, and you have a metaphor of the Information Age in which we live.

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.

Come to think of it, there are already a million monkeys on a million typewriters, and Usenet is nothing like Shakespeare.

Man is the best computer we can put aboard a spacecraft... and the only one that can be mass produced with unskilled labor.

Considering the current sad state of our computer programs, software development is clearly still a black art, and cannot yet be called an engineering discipline.

The Internet? Is that thing still around?

I can't uninstall it, there seems to be some kind of 'Uninstall Shield'.

If you don't want to be replaced by a computer, don't act like one.

Considering the flames and intolerance, shouldn't USENET be spelled ABUSENET?

Programming is an unnatural act.

The advance of technology is based on making it fit in so that you don't really even notice it, so it's part of everyday life.

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.

Of course, the best way to get accurate information on Usenet is to post something wrong and wait for corrections.

Ever notice how fast Windows runs ? — Neither did I.