Technology Quotes

It is easier to change the specification to fit the program than vice versa.

Just about anyone can pass if they have a home computer and are a quick study.

Inside every small program is a large program struggling to get out.

All of the books in the world contain no more information than is broadcast as video in a single large American city in a single year. Not all bits have equal value.

If McDonalds were run like a software company, one out of every hundred Big Macs would give you food poisoning, and the response would be, ‘We’re sorry, here’s a coupon for two more.

In a world without walls and fences, who needs Windows and Gates ?

Man is the best computer we can put aboard a spacecraft... and the only one that can be mass produced with unskilled labor.

A computer lets you make more mistakes faster than any invention in human history - with the possible exceptions of handguns and tequila.

The best way to prepare [to be a programmer] is to write programs, and to study great programs that other people have written. In my case, I went to the garbage cans at the Computer Science Center and fished out listings of their operating system.

If google made $1 everytime someone used them to find an answer to a tech support question, they would own microsoft.

The bulk of all patents are crap. Spending time reading them is stupid. It’s up to the patent owner to do so, and to enforce them.

Apple really hasn't weighed in on the sub-$1,000 computer category. Their next step could be refreshing their current products and making pricing changes.

Every program has (at least) two purposes: the one for which it was written, and another for which it wasn't.

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.

The Internet is so big, so powerful and pointless that for some people it is a complete substitute for life.

They should never have entered him in that computer. It's just common sense? that's the bottom line. I don't think it should have gotten this far.

I am sometimes something of a lazy person, so when I end up spending a lot of time using something myself — as I did with Google in the earliest of days, I knew it was a big deal.

A language that doesn't affect the way you think about programming, is not worth knowing.

First and foremost, the Internet is unique since it is THE only interactive medium -- and that's important because from a content, service, and communications perspective, we web folks try to take advantage of that interactivity.

There was a time when nails were high-tech. There was a time when people had to be told how to use a telephone. Technology is just a tool. People use tools to improve their lives.

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

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

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

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

The Internet? Is that thing still around?