Technology Quotes

We are now able to see things in nature of what was previously only available in computer simulation.

I also introduce skills like using a hula hoop or jumping rope. I think many kids this age need a break from the computer or video games to learn these very important physical skills.

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

Giving up on assembly language was the apple in our Garden of Eden: Languages whose use squanders machine cycles are sinful. The LISP machine now permits LISP programmers to abandon bra and fig-leaf.

It was a pivotal moment in the history of computers and the history of advertising.

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

If you look at the top 20 companies of the world, 19 of them are still brick-and-mortar companies. I have nothing against tech companies. What I am saying is that if you have a car manufacturer or an oil and gas manufacturer, you won’t get the supply over the Net.

An adequate bootstrap is a contradiction in terms.

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

Debugging is twice as hard as writing the code in the first place. Therefore, if you write the code as cleverly as possible, you are–by definition–not smart enough to debug it.

Complexity kills. It sucks the life out of developers, it makes products difficult to plan, build and test, it introduces security challenges, and it causes end-user and administrator frustration.

How could this be a problem in a country where we have Intel and Microsoft?

It makes life difficult ... because law changes very slowly. We have judges who did not grow up with computers and so many do not understand the technology and issues it raises.

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

I'm not anti-social; I'm just not user friendly.

Controlling complexity is the essence of computer programming.

Real programmers can write assembly code in any language.

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

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

Fools ignore complexity. Pragmatists suffer it. Some can avoid it. Geniuses remove it.

I get mail, therefore I am.

For a list of all the ways technology has failed to improve the quality of life, please press three.

The computer is the ultimate polluter: its feces are indistinguish- able from the food it produces.

There are broken toilets left there, old computers and miscellaneous garbage. They are totally unsupervised. The recycling company is good, but when people want to dump trash, they dump trash.

640K ought to be enough for anybody.