Technology Quotes

Microsoft has had its success by doing low-cost products and constantly improving those products and we've really redefined the IT industry to be something that's about a tool for individuals.

Be nice to nerds. Chances are you'll end up working for one.

Modern technology Owes ecology An apology.

Technology happens, it's not good, it's not bad. Is steel good or bad?

Considering the flames and intolerance, shouldn't USENET be spelled ABUSENET?

There is a chasm of carbon and silicon the software can't bridge.

I wish life had an Undo function.

The use of COBOL cripples the mind; its teaching should therefore be regarded as a criminal offense.

Be nice to geeks when you're in school, you might end-up working for one when you grow-up.

Mac users swear by their computers. PC users swear at their computers.

The most important and urgent problems of the technology of today are no longer the satisfactions of primary needs or of archetypal wishes, but the reparation of the evils and damages by technology of yesterday.

First we thought the PC was a calculator. Then we found out how to turn numbers into letters with ASCII — and we thought it was a typewriter. Then we discovered graphics, and we thought it was a television. With the World Wide Web, we've realized it's a brochure.

In programming, as in everything else, to be in error is to be reborn.

There are only two kinds of programming languages: those people always bitch about and those nobody uses.

Double your drive space — delete Windows !

MS-DOS, an OS originally designed for a microprocessor that modern kitchen appliances would sneer at.

The US Nuclear Security Administration runs the Blue Gene supercomputer. It is supposed to be the top super computer in the world ? and it runs on GNU Linux. Of the top 10 super computers in the world, seven run on GNU Linux. From a security point of view, there is a case to be made.

Any non-trivial program contains at least one error.

Microsoft has a new version out, Windows XP, which according to everybody is the ‘most reliable Windows ever.‘ To me, this is like saying that asparagus is ‘the most articulate vegetable ever.

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.

C++ : Where friends have access to your private members.

We've heard that a million monkeys at a keyboard could produce the Complete Works of Shakespeare; now, thanks to the Internet, we know this is not true.

If Gore invented the Internet, I invented spell-check.

Wherever there is modularity there is the potential for misunderstanding: Hiding information implies a need to check communication.

The Internet? Is that thing still around?