Technology Quotes

It has become appallingly obvious that our technology has exceeded our humanity.

The only truly secure computer is one buried in concrete, with the power turned off and the network cable cut.

Do you realize if it weren't for Edison we'd be watching TV by candlelight?

If brute force doesn't solve your problems, then you aren't using enough.

I just bought a Mac to help me design the next Cray.

If debugging is the process of removing bugs, then programming must be the process of putting them in.

I think Microsoft named .Net so it wouldn’t show up in a Unix directory listing.

I remember the difficulty we had in the beginning replacing magnetic cores in memories and eventually we had both cost and performance advantages. But it wasn't at all clear in the beginning.

Hacking is like sex. You get in, you get out, and hope that you didn't leave something that can be traced back to you.

Adapting old programs to fit new machines usually means adapting new machines to behave like old ones.

It's just like a computer. The more you load up, the slower it gets, the more issues arise.

Two men were examining the output of the new computer in their department. After an hour or so of analyzing the data, one of them remarked: "Do you realize it would take 400 men at least 250 years to make a mistake this big ?

Program complexity grows until it exceeds the capabilities of the programmer who must maintain it.

Computer science education cannot make anybody an expert programmer any more than studying brushes and pigment can make somebody an expert painter.

True innovation often comes from the small startup who is lean enough to launch a market but lacks the heft to own it.

I’ve finally learned what ‘upward compatible’ means. It means we get to keep all our old mistakes.

Computers can figure out all kinds of problems, except the things in the world that just don't add up.

I’ve noticed lately that the paranoid fear of computers becoming intelligent and taking over the world has almost entirely disappeared from the common culture. Near as I can tell, this coincides with the release of MS-DOS.

I have an almost religious zeal.. not for technology per se, but for the Internet which is for me, the nervous system of mother Earth, which I see as a living creature, linking up.

Adding programmers to a late project makes it later.

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

Web users ultimately want to get at data quickly and easily. They don't care as much about attractive sites and pretty design.

Technology without hatred can be a blessing. Technology with hatred is always a disaster.

Not even computers will replace committees, because committees buy computers.

Technology... is a queer thing. It brings you great gifts with one hand, and it stabs you in the back with the other.