Technology Quotes

Functions delay binding; data structures induce binding. Moral: Structure data late in the programming process.

If it keeps up, man will atrophy all his limbs but the push-button finger.

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

We are very much believers that the web is an open environment, and we need to make sure that people can find all kinds of different stuff through Yahoo!, and not necessarily keeping people within Yahoo!

The last good thing written in C++ was the Pachelbel Canon.

Every program is a part of some other program and rarely fits.

The march of science and technology does not imply growing intellectual complexity in the lives of most people. It often means the opposite.

Computers are magnificent tools for the realization of our dreams, but no machine can replace the human spark of spirit, compassion, love, and understanding.

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

Get into a rut early: Do the same process the same way. Accumulate idioms. Standardize. The only difference(!) between Shakespeare and you was the size of his idiom list - not the size of his vocabulary.

Steve Jobs may have the apple, but Bill Gates has the entire orchard !

Computation has made the tree flower.

We are on the verge: Today our program proved Fermat's next-to-last theorem.

As we go forward, I hope we're going to continue to use technology to make really big differences in how people live and work.

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.

Programmers are tools for converting caffeine into code.

The production of too many useful things results in too many useless people.

Bringing computers into the home won't change either one, but may revitalize the corner saloon.

The newest computer can merely compound, at speed, the oldest problem in the relations between human beings, and in the end the communicator will be confronted with the old problem, of what to say and how to say it.

Controlling complexity is the essence of computer programming.

Windows isn't a virus, viruses do something.

I believe that this notion of self-publishing, which is what Blogger and blogging are really about, is the next big wave of human communication. The last big wave was Web activity. Before that one it was e-mail. Instant messaging was an extension of e-mail, real-time e-mail.

If Gore invented the Internet, I invented spell-check.

The Linux philosophy is "Laugh in the face of danger". Oops. Wrong One. "Do it yourself". Yes, that's it.

Computer language design is just like a stroll in the park. Jurassic Park, that is.