Technology Quotes

Structured Programming supports the law of the excluded muddle.

Everyone can be taught to sculpt: Michelangelo would have had to be taught not to. So it is with great programmers.

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

SUPERCOMPUTER: what it sounded like before you bought it.

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

You know you're a geek when... You try to shoo a fly away from the monitor with your cursor. That just happened to me. It was scary.

When we first started, we would message all the time, ... He would log on, and mostly we would just message back and forth at the beginning of the relationship. Now, we use the computer, phones, letters, airlines - everything.

In a 5 year period we get one superb programming language. Only we can't control when the 5 year period will be.

The medium is the message. This is merely to say that the personal and social consequences of any medium / that is, of any extension of ourselves / result from the new scale that is introduced into our affairs by each extension of ourselves, or by any new technology.

If Unix is the face of the future I want to go back to quill pens.

David and I and the rest of the Yahoos here really believe that the internet should remain as free as possible. At the same time we are a business and have fiscal responsibilities.

A programmer is a person who passes as an exacting expert on the basis of being able to turn out, after innumerable punching, an infinite series of incomprehensive answers calculated with micrometric precisions from vague assumptions based on debatable figures taken from inconclusive documents and carried out on instruments of problematical accuracy by persons of dubious reliability and questionable mentality for the avowed purpose of annoying and confounding a hopelessly defenseless department that was unfortunate enough to ask for the information in the first place.

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

Real programmers can write assembly code in any language.

We've arranged a civilization in which most crucial elements profoundly depend on science and technology.

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.

In programming, as in everything else, to be in error is to be reborn.

What boots up must come down.

The insanity of the collective egoic mind, amplified by science and technology, is rapidly taking our species to the brink of disaster. Evolve or die: that is our only choice now.

The most important and urgent problems of the technology of today are no longer the satisfactions of primary needs or of archetypal wishes, but the reparation of the evils and damages by technology of yesterday.

In 20 or 30 years, you'll be able to hold in your hand as much computing knowledge as exists now in the whole city, or even the whole world.

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

They should never have entered him in that computer. It's just common sense? that's the bottom line. I don't think it should have gotten this far.

Some people think technology has the answers.

MS-DOS isn't dead, it just smells that way.