Technology Quotes

The production of too many useful things results in too many useless people.

Buying the right computer and getting it to work properly is no more complicated than building a nuclear reactor from wristwatch parts in a darkened room using only your teeth.

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.

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.

To err is human, but to really foul things up requires a computer.

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

Perhaps if we wrote programs from childhood on, as adults we'd be able to read them.

Part of the inhumanity of the computer is that, once it is competently programmed and working smoothly, it is completely honest.

That’s the thing about people who think they hate computers. What they really hate is lousy programmers.

The interesting thing is when we design and architect a server, we don't design it for Windows or Linux, we design it for both. We don't really care, as long as we're selling the one the customer wants.

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

Competition is always a fantastic thing, and the computer industry is intensely competitive. Whether it's Google or Apple or free software, we've got some fantastic competitors and it keeps us on our toes.

Overall, OS/2's problems fall into two categories: IBM and Microsoft.

Artificial Intelligence: the art of making computers that behave like the ones in movies.

Grove giveth and Gates taketh away.

There is no programming language–no matter how structured–that will prevent programmers from making bad programs.

The Internet is a great way to get on the net.

Always code as if the guy who ends up maintaining your code will be a violent psychopath who knows where you live.

In seeking the unattainable, simplicity only gets in the way.

Saying that most of the computer was filled with personal images is simply not accurate.

The only constructive theory connecting neuroscience and psychology will arise from the study of software.

The eleventh commandment was "Thou Shalt Compute" or "Thou Shalt Not Compute" - I forget which.

There's no set architecture in Linux. All roads lead to madness.

Calculations which required a $20 million machine eight years ago can be done on a Mac cluster costing about $11,000.

A program is a spell cast over a computer, turning input into error messages.