Technology Quotes

Computers, huh? I've heard it all boils down to just a bunch of ones and zeroes.... I don't know how that enables me to see naked women, but however it works, God bless you guys.

The computing field is always in need of new cliches.

The greatest danger in modern technology isn't that machines will begin to think like people, but that people will begin to think like machines.

Imagine a school with children that can read or write, but with teachers who cannot, and you have a metaphor of the Information Age in which we live.

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

There are only two industries that refer to their customers as ‘users’.

A programming language is low level when its programs require attention to the irrelevant.

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

Syntactic sugar causes cancer of the semicolon.

Computers can figure out all kinds of problems, except the things in the world that just don't add up.

To understand a program you must become both the machine and the program.

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.

One day soon the Gillette company will announce the development of a razor that, thanks to a computer microchip, can actually travel ahead in time and shave beard hairs that don't even exist yet.

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

Don't have good ideas if you aren't willing to be responsible for them.

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

The ultimate search engine would basically understand everything in the world, and it would always give you the right thing. And we're a long, long ways from that.

The Internet? Is that thing still around?

How could this be a problem in a country where we have Intel and Microsoft?

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

Unix was not designed to stop you from doing stupid things, because that would also stop you from doing clever things.

Computer science education cannot make anybody an expert programmer any more than studying brushes and pigment can make somebody an expert painter.

That can be a good tax planning tool for small businesses - especially if you get a computer or something that you were planning to buy (in the coming year anyway).

In view of all the deadly computer viruses that have been spreading lately, Weekend Update would like to remind you: when you link up to another computer, you're linking up to every computer that that computer has ever linked up to.

The idea is that instead of going to an online retail site ... and buying a physical CD and having it shipped to you, you actually can buy the song and download the song to your computer hard drive.