Technology Quotes

First learn computer science and all the theory. Next develop a programming style. Then forget all that and just hack.

I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination. Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world.

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.

We kid ourselves if we think that the ratio of procedure to data in an active data-base system can be made arbitrarily small or even kept small.

The perfect computer has been developed. You just feed in your problems and they never come out again.

Technology: No Place for Wimps!

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

If computers get too powerful, we can organize them into committees. That'll do them in.

The lifeblood of our business is that R&D spend. There's nothing that flows through a pipe or down a wire or anything else. We have to continuously create new innovation that lets people do something they didn't think they could do the day before.

The advance of technology is based on making it fit in so that you don't really even notice it, so it's part of everyday life.

It is better to have 100 functions operate on one data structure than 10 functions on 10 data structures.

There are managers so preoccupied with their e-mail messages that they never look up from their screens to see what's happening in the nondigital world.

I just bought a Mac to help me design the next Cray.

E-mail — When it absolutely, positively has to get lost at the speed of light.

Humanity is acquiring all the right technology for all the wrong reasons.

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

What boots up must come down.

Computers can figure out all kinds of problems, except the things in the world that just don't add up.

Everything should be built top-down, except the first time.

You can define advertising as the science of creating and placing media that interrupts the consumer and then gets him or her to take some action.

If you give someone a program, you will frustrate them for a day; if you teach them how to program, you will frustrate them for a lifetime.

A printer consists of three main parts: the case, the jammed paper tray and the blinking red light.

My software never has bugs. It just develops random features.

You know you're a geek when... You try to shoo a fly away from the monitor with your cursor. That just happened to me. It was scary.

What the country needs are a few labor-making inventions.