Technology Quotes

Any non-trivial program contains at least one error.

But they are useless. They can only give you answers.

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.

All of the biggest technological inventions created by man - the airplane, the automobile, the computer - says little about his intelligence, but speaks volumes about his laziness.

The perfect computer has been developed. You just feed in your problems and they never come out again.

Any given program, once deployed, is already obsolete.

Every program has (at least) two purposes: the one for which it was written, and another for which it wasn't.

In the long run every program becomes rococo - then rubble.

Like punning, programming is a play on words.

The idea is that instead of going to an online retail site ... and buying a physical CD and having it shipped to you, you actually can buy the song and download the song to your computer hard drive.

One good reason why computers can do more work than people is that they never have to stop and answer the phone.

It is easier to write an incorrect program than understand a correct one.

When we first started, we would message all the time, ... He would log on, and mostly we would just message back and forth at the beginning of the relationship. Now, we use the computer, phones, letters, airlines - everything.

The Internet? Is that thing still around?

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.

Modern technology Owes ecology An apology.

Computers have lots of memory but no imagination.

If it keeps up, man will atrophy all his limbs but the push-button finger.

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 lot of companies have chosen to downsize, and maybe that was the right thing for them. We chose a different path. Our belief was that if we kept putting great products in front of customers, they would continue to open their wallets.

Any fool can use a computer. Many do.

Technological progress is like an axe in the hands of a pathological criminal.

The bulk of all patents are crap. Spending time reading them is stupid. It’s up to the patent owner to do so, and to enforce them.

The Web is like a dominatrix. Everywhere I turn, I see little buttons ordering me to Submit.

The best way to prepare [to be a programmer] is to write programs, and to study great programs that other people have written. In my case, I went to the garbage cans at the Computer Science Center and fished out listings of their operating system.