Technology Quotes

A programmer is a person who passes as an exacting expert on the basis of being able to turn out, after innumerable punching, an infinite series of incomprehensive answers calculated with micrometric precisions from vague assumptions based on debatable figures taken from inconclusive documents and carried out on instruments of problematical accuracy by persons of dubious reliability and questionable mentality for the avowed purpose of annoying and confounding a hopelessly defenseless department that was unfortunate enough to ask for the information in the first place.

First, solve the problem. Then, write the code.

We are on the verge: Today our program proved Fermat's next-to-last theorem.

In software systems, it is often the early bird that makes the worm.

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

Silos can't interoperate unless the technology does.

If a program manipulates a large amount of data, it does so in a small number of ways.

To turn really interesting ideas and fledgling technologies into a company that can continue to innovate for years, it requires a lot of disciplines.

An adequate bootstrap is a contradiction in terms.

Microsoft is now talking about the digital nervous system... I guess I would be nervous if my system was built on their technology too.

You can define advertising as the science of creating and placing media that interrupts the consumer and then gets him or her to take some action.

A thunderstorm is God's way of saying you spend too much time in front of the computer.

The system of nature, of which man is a part, tends to be self-balancing, self-adjusting, self-cleansing. Not so with technology.

Undetectable errors are infinite in variety, in contrast to detectable errors, which by definition are limited.

Computers can now keep a man's every transgression recorded in a permanent memory bank, duplicating with complex programming and intricate wiring a feat his wife handles quite well without fuss or fanfare.

Do you realize if it weren't for Edison we'd be watching TV by candlelight?

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

Giving up on assembly language was the apple in our Garden of Eden: Languages whose use squanders machine cycles are sinful. The LISP machine now permits LISP programmers to abandon bra and fig-leaf.

The more I C, the less I see.

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.

I’ve noticed lately that the paranoid fear of computers becoming intelligent and taking over the world has almost entirely disappeared from the common culture. Near as I can tell, this coincides with the release of MS-DOS.

I think Microsoft named .Net so it wouldn’t show up in a Unix directory listing.

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

Yesterday it worked Today it is not working Windows is like that

If a program is useless, it will have to be documented.