Technology Quotes

Of course, the best way to get accurate information on Usenet is to post something wrong and wait for corrections.

It is questionable if all the mechanical inventions yet made have lightened the day's toil of any human being.

The protection of personal information stored on our nation's computer systems is critical to public trust in those networks and to the health of our economy.

Grove giveth and Gates taketh away.

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.

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.

Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.

As we go forward, I hope we're going to continue to use technology to make really big differences in how people live and work.

Everybody who runs a Web site knows we're not assured of compatibility.

It's very important to remember that it's your intellectual property; it's not your computer. And in the pursuit of protection of intellectual property, it's important not to defeat or undermine the security measures that people need to adopt in these days.

Well Microsoft really does develop some really interesting technology.

The use of COBOL cripples the mind; its teaching should therefore be regarded as a criminal offense.

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

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.

Why do we want intelligent terminals when there are so many stupid users ?

What boots up must come down.

The danger from computers is not that they will eventually get as smart as men, but that we will meanwhile agree to meet them halfway.

The interesting thing is when we design and architect a server, we don't design it for Windows or Linux, we design it for both. We don't really care, as long as we're selling the one the customer wants.

Syntactic sugar causes cancer of the semicolon.

Computation has made the tree flower.

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.

A LISP programmer knows the value of everything, but the cost of nothing.

Buying the right computer and getting it to work properly is no more complicated than building a nuclear reactor from wristwatch parts in a darkened room using only your teeth.

There are only two kinds of programming languages: those people always bitch about and those nobody uses.

Beware of computer programmers that carry screwdrivers.