Technology Quotes

Good code is its own best documentation.

There are so many ways to heal. Arrogance may have a place in technology, but not in healing. I need to get out of my own way if I am to heal.

Computation has made the tree flower.

How could this be a problem in a country where we have Intel and Microsoft?

There is so much media now with the Internet and people, and so easy and so cheap to start a newspaper or start a magazine, there’s just millions of voices and people want to be heard.

If you give someone a program, you will frustrate them for a day; if you teach them how to program, you will frustrate them for a lifetime.

Motto for a research laboratory: What we work on today, others will first think of tomorrow.

Apple really hasn't weighed in on the sub-$1,000 computer category. Their next step could be refreshing their current products and making pricing changes.

It's not that we use technology, we live technology.

Results eventually reach a point at which a finer mesh no longer yields an appreciable difference. This type of convergence study helps generate accurate solutions with meshes that are sufficiently dense and yet not overly demanding of computer resources.

To go forward, you must backup.

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

A year spent in artificial intelligence is enough to make one believe in God.

Structured Programming supports the law of the excluded muddle.

Imagine if every Thursday your shoes exploded if you tied them the usual way. This happens to us all the time with computers, and nobody thinks of complaining.

The computer reminds one of Lon Chaney -- it is the machine of a thousand faces.

Often it is the means that justify the ends: Goals advance technique and technique survives even when goal structures crumble.

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.

I have gotten everything from a one-page letter written in pencil to a 50-page computer generated masterpiece.

INSERT DISK THREE' ? But I can only get two in the drive !

There’s an old story about the person who wished his computer were as easy to use as his telephone. That wish has come true, since I no longer know how to use my telephone.

Beware of computer programmers that carry screwdrivers.

I don't want to be left behind. In fact, I want to be here before the action starts.

This is something we're very committed to, it's something that I think people are underestimating right now as they've seen some of the dot-com promises not come through. I think they're missing the fact that the basic technology is moving forward, the new platforms are here and this vision of the digital decade will be a reality.

Five years ago, we thought of the Web as a new medium, not a new economy.