Technology Quotes

As network administrator I can take down the network with one keystroke. It's just like being a doctor but without getting gooky stuff on my paws.

A program is never less than 90% complete, and never more than 95% complete.

We've all heard that a million monkeys banging on a million typewriters will eventually reproduce the entire works of Shakespeare. Now, thanks to the Internet, we know this is not true.

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

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

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

There are three kinds of death in this world. There's heart death, there's brain death, and there's being off the network.

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

Sometimes I think the only universal in the computing field is the fetch-execute cycle.

We’re gambling on our vision, and we would rather do that than make “me too” products. Let some other companies do that. For us, it’s always the next dream.

Most software today is very much like an Egyptian pyramid with millions of bricks piled on top of each other, with no structural integrity, but just done by brute force and thousands of slaves.

What is the difference between a Turing machine and the modern computer? It's the same as that between Hillary's ascent of Everest and the establishment of a Hilton hotel on its peak.

Science is supposedly the method by which we stand on the shoulders of those who came before us. In computer science, we all are standing on each others' feet.

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.

Bill Gates is a very rich man today... and do you want to know why? The answer is one word: versions.

Computers, huh? I've heard it all boils down to just a bunch of ones and zeroes.... I don't know how that enables me to see naked women, but however it works, God bless you guys.

Debugging is twice as hard as writing the code in the first place. Therefore, if you write the code as cleverly as possible, you are–by definition–not smart enough to debug it.

Kids today have so many advantages I never had. There's no telling what I could've accomplished with a home computer and a handgun.

A computer lets you make more mistakes faster than any invention in human history - with the possible exceptions of handguns and tequila.

Any code of your own that you haven’t looked at for six or more months might as well have been written by someone else.

If computers get too powerful, we can organize them into a committee. That will do them in.

In seeking the unattainable, simplicity only gets in the way.

Build a program that even a fool can use, and only a fool will want to use it.

A year spent in artificial intelligence is enough to make one believe in God.

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