Technology Quotes

Today's meters are little computers.

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.

Whenever two programmers meet to criticize their programs, both are silent.

As soon as we started programming, we found to our surprise that it wasn’t as easy to get programs right as we had thought. Debugging had to be discovered. I can remember the exact instant when I realized that a large part of my life from then on was going to be spent in finding mistakes in my own programs.

Making something variable is easy. Controlling duration of constancy is the trick.

We will never become a truly paper-less society until the Palm Pilot folks come out with WipeMe 1.0.

The first 90% of the code accounts for the first 90% of the development time. The remaining 10% of the code accounts for the other 90% of the development time.

Most of you are familiar with the virtues of a programmer. There are three, of course: laziness, impatience, and hubris.

If future generations are to remember us more with gratitude than sorrow, we must achieve more than just the miracles of technology. We must also leave them a glimpse of the world as it was created, not just as it looked when we got through with it.

It’s really hard to design products by focus groups. A lot of times, people don’t know what they want until you show it to them.

I do not fear computers. I fear the lack of them.

AOL is like the cockroach left after the nuclear bomb hits. They know how to survive.

If a listener nods his head when you're explaining your program, wake him up.

Recursion is the root of computation since it trades description for time.

A complex system that works is invariably found to have evolved from a simple system that worked.

I see no progress in this industry. These clocks are no faster than the ones they made a hundred years ago.

They say if you play a Microsoft CD backwards, you hear satanic messages. Thats nothing, cause if you play it forwards, it installs Windows.

Vista is the the George W Bush of the technology industry.

Not everything that can be counted counts, and not everything that counts can be counted.

Functions delay binding; data structures induce binding. Moral: Structure data late in the programming process.

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

Computers are like air conditioners: they stop working when you open windows.

If the automobile had followed the same development cycle as the computer, a Rolls-Royce would today cost $100, get a million miles per gallon, and explode once a year, killing everyone inside.

I think that it's always possible to have a great company if you have great ideas. I will say that since the web has become more commercialized, it also takes some good financial resources to build a great business, but as I always say, you have to have the idea first.

Food for thought: A fully-protected-and-updated Windows box cannot, by definition, have an uptime of more than 30 days.