Technology Quotes

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

COBOL programmers understand why women hate periods.

The fact that I have entered into IT-related business is proof that businesses have to evolve and keep with time. One has to re-invent continuously.

Back up my hard disk ? I can't find the reverse switch !

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

Technology is a gift of God. After the gift of life it is perhaps the greatest of God's gifts. It is the mother of civilizations, of arts and of sciences.

One man's constant is another man's variable.

The mass majority of computer users are conservative. They want to use the software they're used to using.

Style used to be an interaction between the human soul and tools that were limiting. In the digital era, it will have to come from the soul alone.

But they are useless. They can only give you answers.

With engineering, I view this year's failure as next year's opportunity to try it again. Failures are not something to be avoided. You want to have them happen as quickly as you can so you can make progress rapidly.

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.

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.

You think you know when you can learn, are more sure when you can write, even more when you can teach, but certain when you can program.

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

Windows isn't a virus, viruses do something.

Every operating system out there is about equal… We all suck.

Interfaces keep things tidy, but don't accelerate growth: Functions do.

The newest computer can merely compound, at speed, the oldest problem in the relations between human beings, and in the end the communicator will be confronted with the old problem, of what to say and how to say it.

Not until a program has been in production for at least six months will its most harmful error be discovered.

Computers in the future may have only 1,000 vacuum tubes and perhapsonly weigh 1 1/2 tons.

There's a whole kind of hip element to it -- now I need this. Right smack in the middle of the 21st century, sophistication is marrying itself to a very old-fashioned notion of a table where you play games, long before television, video games and home computers. The deck of cards now has become cool again.

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

David and I and the rest of the Yahoos here really believe that the internet should remain as free as possible. At the same time we are a business and have fiscal responsibilities.

Moore's Law - The number of transistors and resistors on a chip doubles every 24 months