Technology Quotes

The Internet: where men are men, women are men, and children are FBI agents.

Almost everybody today believes that nothing in economic history has ever moved as fast as, or had a greater impact than, the Information Revolution. But the Industrial Revolution moved at least as fast in the same time span, and had probably an equal impact if not a greater one.

Around computers it is difficult to find the correct unit of time to measure progress. Some cathedrals took a century to complete. Can you imagine the grandeur and scope of a program that would take as long?

You think you know when you can learn, are more sure when you can write, even more when you can teach, but certain when you can program.

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

Users /nm./: collective term for those who use computers. Users are divided into three types: novice, intermediate and expert. Novice Users: people who are afraid that simply pressing a key might break their computer. Intermediate Users: people who don't know how to fix their computer after they've just pressed a key that broke it. Expert Users: people who break other people's computers.

First we thought the PC was a calculator. Then we found out how to turn numbers into letters with ASCII — and we thought it was a typewriter. Then we discovered graphics, and we thought it was a television. With the World Wide Web, we've realized it's a brochure.

My understanding is their objective is to increase their capacity for the Internet, search engines. All I know is there's a lot of computers.

Technology has the shelf life of a banana.

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

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.

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

I completely love playing and designing games and always will. I am so into games that I listen to game music all day. That may sound strange, but you can guarantee I'm a hardcore gamer and would never let you down by designing a crappy title.

A computer is like an Old Testament god, with a lot of rules and no mercy.

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

We are on the verge: Today our program proved Fermat's next-to-last theorem.

That can be a good tax planning tool for small businesses - especially if you get a computer or something that you were planning to buy (in the coming year anyway).

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.

If future generations are to remember us more with gratitude than sorrow, we must achieve more than just the miracles of technology. We must also leave them a glimpse of the world as it was created, not just as it looked when we got through with it.

All programmers are playwrights and all computers are lousy actors.

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.

Like car accidents, most hardware problems are due to driver error.

A good system can't have a weak command language.

My favorite thing about the Internet is that you get to go into the private world of real creeps without having to smell them.

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.