Technology Quotes

In programming, as in everything else, to be in error is to be reborn.

This is a highly reliable power source. Being a large credit card processor, doing $6 million an hour in transactions, our computers have to work.

If I had taken a proprietary control of the Web, then it would never have taken off. People only committed their time to it because they knew it was open, shared: that they could help decide what would happen to it next.. and I wouldn't be raking off 10%!

Better to be a geek than an idiot.

Considering the flames and intolerance, shouldn't USENET be spelled ABUSENET?

The trouble with programmers is that you can never tell what a programmer is doing until it’s too late.

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.

There is some confusion because we only recently began our marketing. We're in an era were people need to think about business processes and applications horizontally...We need to think of the enterprise not as an island of stand-alone technology.

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.

Computation has made the tree flower.

It is easier to write an incorrect program than understand a correct one.

If GM had kept up with technology like the computer industry has, we would all be driving $25 cars that got 1000 MPG.

The great thing about Object Oriented code is that it can make small, simple problems look like large, complex ones.

If you tried to read every document on the web, then for each day's effort you would be a year further behind in your goal.

Anyone who has lost track of time when using a computer knows the propensity to dream, the urge to make dreams come true and the tendency to miss lunch.

That’s what’s cool about working with computers. They don’t argue, they remember everything, and they don’t drink all your beer.

In C++ it’s harder to shoot yourself in the foot, but when you do, you blow off your whole leg.

The world is coming to an end... SAVE YOUR BUFFERS!

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

One does not learn computing by using a hand calculator, but one can forget arithmetic.

Windows 95: It's like upgrading from Reagan to Bush.

Windows isn't a virus, viruses do something.

It would take a lot of time and effort (to repair the computers). And they can't run (programs and games) kids are interested in today. They're not even on the Internet. We wouldn't be offering them much of a carrot.

When we first started, we would message all the time, ... He would log on, and mostly we would just message back and forth at the beginning of the relationship. Now, we use the computer, phones, letters, airlines - everything.

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