Technology Quotes

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

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

The Internet is like a giant jellyfish. You can't step on it. You can't go around it. You've got to get through it.

Whereas knights of old wore armor of plate, the modern knights of the air wear the invisible but magic armor of confidence in technology.

Adapting old programs to fit new machines usually means adapting new machines to behave like old ones.

Re graphics: A picture is worth 10K words - but only those to describe the picture. Hardly any sets of 10K words can be adequately described with pictures.

Computer science education cannot make anybody an expert programmer any more than studying brushes and pigment can make somebody an expert painter.

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

There's a lot that can be done for people who are using technology in a better way.

Structured Programming supports the law of the excluded muddle.

Double your drive space — delete Windows !

Orchestras only need to be sworn at, and a German is consequently at an advantage with them, as English profanity, except in America, has not gone beyond a limited technology of perdition.

Calculations which required a $20 million machine eight years ago can be done on a Mac cluster costing about $11,000.

Hey ! It compiles ! Ship it !

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

The term reboot comes from the middle age (before computers). Horses who stopped in mid-stride required a boot to the rear to start again. Thus the term to rear-boot, later abbreviated into reboot.

It is a tremendous responsibility for us to have all the eyes focused on what we do and give people exactly what they need when they ask for it.

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

We're seeing how the videos translate to the live shows and how the technology is really reaching kids.

Macintosh computer are easy to use. It's also easy to stick your hand in a wood chipper.

Never let a computer know you're in a hurry.

When we write programs that "learn", it turns out that we do and they don't.

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.

Don't have good ideas if you aren't willing to be responsible for them.

Everyone can be taught to sculpt: Michelangelo would have had to be taught not to. So it is with great programmers.