Technology Quotes

Soon silence will have passed into legend. Man has turned his back on silence. Day after day he invents machines and devices that increase noise and distract humanity from the essence of life, contemplation, meditation...tooting, howling, screeching, booming, crashing, whistling, grinding, and trilling bolster his ego. His anxiety subsides. His inhuman void spreads monstrously like a gray vegetation.

I just bought a Mac to help me design the next Cray.

I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination. Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world.

WinNT: All the headaches of Unix, but in a pretty, windowed environment.

A distributed system is one in which the failure of a computer you didn't even know existed can render your own computer unusable.

Measuring programming progress by lines of code is like measuring aircraft building progress by weight.

PHP is a minor evil perpetrated and created by incompetent amateurs, whereas Perl is a great and insidious evil perpetrated by skilled but perverted professionals.