Technology Quotes

The Internet has been the most fundamental change during my lifetime and for hundreds of years. Someone the other day said, "It's the biggest thing since Gutenberg," and then someone else said "No, it's the biggest thing since the invention of writing."

First learn computer science and all the theory. Next develop a programming style. Then forget all that and just hack.

The medium, or process, of our time - electric technology is reshaping and restructuring patterns of social interdependence and every aspect of our personal life. It is forcing us to reconsider and re-evaluate practically every thought, every action.

Beware of computer programmers that carry screwdrivers.

Complexity kills. It sucks the life out of developers, it makes products difficult to plan, build and test, it introduces security challenges, and it causes end-user and administrator frustration.

COBOL programmers understand why women hate periods.

We will create a civilization of the Mind in Cyberspace. May it be more humane and fair than the world your governments have made before.

Within a computer natural language is unnatural.

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.

And bring me a hard copy of the Internet so I can do some serious surfing.

I also introduce skills like using a hula hoop or jumping rope. I think many kids this age need a break from the computer or video games to learn these very important physical skills.

Everything should be built top-down, except the first time.

I think computer viruses should count as life. I think it says something about human nature that the only form of life we have created so far is purely destructive. We've created life in our own image.

It makes life difficult ... because law changes very slowly. We have judges who did not grow up with computers and so many do not understand the technology and issues it raises.

Simplicity does not precede complexity, but follows it.

Paper returns done by hand have an 80 percent accuracy rate, or 20 percent error rate. E-file has more than a 99 percent accuracy rate, because the computer does all the work for you.

Windows isn't a virus, viruses do something.

Never before in history has innovation offered promise of so much to so many in so short a time.

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

Applying computer technology is simply finding the right wrench to pound in the correct screw.

To understand a program you must become both the machine and the program.

It is extremely unlikely that anyone coming out of school with a technical degree will go into one area and stay there. Today's students have to look forward to the excitement of probably having three or four careers.

A program without a loop and a structured variable isn't worth writing.

Some things Man was never meant to know. For everything else, there's Google.

Food for thought: A fully-protected-and-updated Windows box cannot, by definition, have an uptime of more than 30 days.