Technology Quotes

I’ve noticed lately that the paranoid fear of computers becoming intelligent and taking over the world has almost entirely disappeared from the common culture. Near as I can tell, this coincides with the release of MS-DOS.

I think computer viruses should count as life. I think it says something about human nature that the only form of life we have created so far is purely destructive. We've created life in our own image.

The attention span of a computer is only as long as its electrical cord.

The Internet is a great way to get on the net.

Microsoft has a new version out, Windows XP, which according to everybody is the ‘most reliable Windows ever.‘ To me, this is like saying that asparagus is ‘the most articulate vegetable ever.

Be nice to nerds. Chances are you'll end up working for one.

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.

They're growing at three to four times the personal computer market.

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

It is practically impossible to teach good programming style to students that have had prior exposure to BASIC. As potential programmers, they are mentally mutilated beyond hope of regeneration.

In all large corporations, there is a pervasive fear that someone, somewhere is having fun with a computer on company time. Networks help alleviate that fear.

There are three kinds of death in this world. There's heart death, there's brain death, and there's being off the network.

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

We are Microsoft. Resistance Is Futile. You Will Be Assimilated.

A great lathe operator commands several times the wage of an average lathe operator, but a great writer of software code is worth 10,000 times the price of an average software writer.

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.

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

The number one benefit of information technology is that it empowers people to do what they want to do. It lets people be creative. It lets people be productive. It lets people learn things they didn't think they could learn before, and so in a sense it is all about potential.

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

The best thing about a boolean is even if you are wrong, you are only off by a bit.

There is only one satisfying way to boot a computer.

The use of a program to prove the 4-color theorem will not change mathematics - it merely demonstrates that the theorem, a challenge for a century, is probably not important to mathematics.

NO, You cannot dial 911, I'm downloading my mail !!!

The city’s central computer told you? R2D2, you know better than to trust a strange computer!

Computers are like bikinis. They save people a lot of guesswork.