Technology Quotes

The attention span of a computer is only as long as its electrical cord.

The debate rages on: is PL/I Bachtrian or Dromedary?

Because of its vitality, the computing field is always in desperate need of new cliches: Banality soothes our nerves.

As Will Rogers would have said, "There is no such thing as a free variable."

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

Five years ago, we thought of the Web as a new medium, not a new economy.

Software suppliers are trying to make their software packages more ‘user-friendly’… Their best approach so far has been to take all the old brochures and stamp the words ‘user-friendly’ on the cover.

The "Net is a waste of time, and that's exactly what's right about it.

Orchestras only need to be sworn at, and a German is consequently at an advantage with them, as English profanity, except in America, has not gone beyond a limited technology of perdition.

A LISP programmer knows the value of everything, but the cost of nothing.

Any fool can use a computer. Many do.

The Star Trek computer doesn't seem that interesting. They ask it random questions, it thinks for a while. I think we can do better than that.

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

It is dangerously destabilizing to have half the world on the cutting edge of technology while the other half struggles on the bare edge of survival.

Programming is an unnatural act.

Programming is like sex: one mistake and you’re providing support for a lifetime.

The city’s central computer told you? R2D2, you know better than to trust a strange computer!

If brute force doesn't solve your problems, then you aren't using enough.

The goal of computation is the emulation of our synthetic abilities, not the understanding of our analytic ones.

Prolonged contact with the computer turns mathematicians into clerks and vice versa.

In English every word can be verbed. Would that it were so in our programming languages.

Our mission is to organize the world's information. Clearly, the more information we have when we do a search, the better it's going to work.

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.

For a long time it puzzled me how something so expensive, so leading edge, could be so useless. And then it occurred to me that a computer is a stupid machine with the ability to do incredibly smart things, while computer programmers are smart people with the ability to do incredibly stupid things. They are, in short, a perfect match.

The world is coming to an end... SAVE YOUR BUFFERS!