Technology Quotes

Be nice to geeks when you're in school, you might end-up working for one when you grow-up.

You can measure a programmer's perspective by noting his attitude on the continuing vitality of FORTRAN.

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

Style used to be an interaction between the human soul and tools that were limiting. In the digital era, it will have to come from the soul alone.

Should array indices start at 0 or 1? My compromise of 0.5 was rejected without, I thought, proper consideration.

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

To create a new standard it takes something that's not just a little bit different. It takes something that's really new and really captures people's imagination. And the Macintosh, of all the machines I've ever seen, is the only one that meets that standard.

Real programmers can write assembly code in any language.

Saying your OS is the best in the world 'cause more people use it is like saying McDonalds makes the best food in the world.

Not until a program has been in production for at least six months will its most harmful error be discovered.

Capitalist production, therefore, develops technology, and the combining together of various processes into a social whole, only by sapping the original sources of all wealth - the soil and the labourer.

A computer makes it possible to do, in half an hour, tasks which were completely unnecessary to do before.

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.

Everybody who runs a Web site knows we're not assured of compatibility.

We kid ourselves if we think that the ratio of procedure to data in an active data-base system can be made arbitrarily small or even kept small.

The first 90% of the code accounts for the first 90% of the development time. The remaining 10% of the code accounts for the other 90% of the development time.

A carelessly planned project takes three times longer to complete than expected; a carefully planned project takes only twice as long.

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

Technology is not an image of the world but a way of operating on reality. The nihilism of technology lies not only in the fact that it is the most perfect expression of the will to power... but also in the fact that it lacks meaning.

For a list of all the ways technology has failed to improve the quality of life, please press three.

Technology is so much fun but we can drown in our technology. The fog of information can drive out knowledge.

If you have any trouble sounding condescending, find a Unix user to show you how it's done.

It has been said that the great scientific disciplines are examples of giants standing on the shoulders of other giants. It has also been said that the software industry is an example of midgets standing on the toes of other midgets.

Moore's Law - The number of transistors and resistors on a chip doubles every 24 months

Where there is the necessary technical skill to move mountains, there is no need for the faith that moves mountains.