Technology Quotes

Good code is its own best documentation.

You can define advertising as the science of creating and placing media that interrupts the consumer and then gets him or her to take some action.

It is questionable if all the mechanical inventions yet made have lightened the day's toil of any human being.

The US Nuclear Security Administration runs the Blue Gene supercomputer. It is supposed to be the top super computer in the world ? and it runs on GNU Linux. Of the top 10 super computers in the world, seven run on GNU Linux. From a security point of view, there is a case to be made.

Advances in computer technology and the Internet have changed the way America works, learns, and communicates. The Internet has become an integral part of America's economic, political, and social life.

The new information technology—Internet and e-mail—have practically eliminated the physical costs of communications.

We are Microsoft. Resistance Is Futile. You Will Be Assimilated.

Better to be a geek than an idiot.

I think if you do something and it turns out pretty good, then you should go do something else wonderful, not dwell on it for too long. Just figure out what’s next.

Dating a girl is just like writing software. Everything's going to work just fine in the testing lab (dating), but as soon as you have contract with a customer (marriage), then your program (life) is going to be facing new situations you never expected. You'll be forced to patch the code (admit you're wrong) and then the code (wife) will just end up all bloated and unmaintainable in the end.

In the long run every program becomes rococo - then rubble.

It would take a lot of time and effort (to repair the computers). And they can't run (programs and games) kids are interested in today. They're not even on the Internet. We wouldn't be offering them much of a carrot.

Encryption...is a powerful defensive weapon for free people. It offers a technical guarantee of privacy, regardless of who is running the government... It's hard to think of a more powerful, less dangerous tool for liberty.

There will always be things we wish to say in our programs that in all known languages can only be said poorly.

If you can't make it good, at least make it look good.

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

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

Chaos reigns within. Reflect, repent, and reboot. Order shall return.

Buying the right computer and getting it to work properly is no more complicated than building a nuclear reactor from wristwatch parts in a darkened room using only your teeth.

A LISP programmer knows the value of everything, but the cost of nothing.

If google made $1 everytime someone used them to find an answer to a tech support question, they would own microsoft.

It's a fact that more people watch television and get their information that way than read books. I find new technology and new ways of communication very exciting and would like to do more in this field.

When we understand knowledge-based systems, it will be as before -- except our fingertips will have been singed.

There are broken toilets left there, old computers and miscellaneous garbage. They are totally unsupervised. The recycling company is good, but when people want to dump trash, they dump trash.

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