Technology Quotes

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

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.

PHP is a minor evil perpetrated and created by incompetent amateurs, whereas Perl is a great and insidious evil perpetrated by skilled but perverted professionals.

Technology is a way of organizing the universe so that man doesn't have to experience it.

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

Everyone can be taught to sculpt: Michelangelo would have had to be taught not to. So it is with great programmers.

Adapting old programs to fit new machines usually means adapting new machines to behave like old ones.

I have gotten everything from a one-page letter written in pencil to a 50-page computer generated masterpiece.

You can try to control people, or you can try to have a system that represents reality. I find that knowing what's really happening is more important than trying to control people.

Computer Science is no more about computers than astronomy is about telescopes.

Bill Gates is so rich because he got his wish when he said: 'I wish I had a nickel for every time a PC reboots'.

If you tried to read every document on the web, then for each day's effort you would be a year further behind in your goal.

The advance of technology is based on making it fit in so that you don't really even notice it, so it's part of everyday life.

With engineering, I view this year's failure as next year's opportunity to try it again. Failures are not something to be avoided. You want to have them happen as quickly as you can so you can make progress rapidly.

Don't have good ideas if you aren't willing to be responsible for them.

To better understand why you need a personal computer, let's take a look at the pathetic mess you call your life.

Computers are like Old Testament gods; lots of rules and no mercy.

Technology without hatred can be a blessing. Technology with hatred is always a disaster.

It's just like a computer. The more you load up, the slower it gets, the more issues arise.

We've arranged a civilization in which most crucial elements profoundly depend on science and technology.

Hardware: where the people in your company's software section will tell you the problem is. Software: where the people in your company's hardware section will tell you the problem is.

In June 1994, while it is still our hobby, we renamed it "yahoo" to stand for "yet another hierarchical officious oracle".

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.

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

Good programmers use their brains, but good guidelines save us having to think out every case.