Technology Quotes

You can either have software quality or you can have pointer arithmetic, but you cannot have both at the same time.

My computer must be broken: whenever I ask a wrong question, it gives a wrong answer.

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

Structured Programming supports the law of the excluded muddle.

Computers are like Old Testament gods; lots of rules and no mercy.

The Internet is becoming the town square for the global village of tomorrow.

Bringing computers into the home won't change either one, but may revitalize the corner saloon.

Never trust a computer you can’t throw out a window.

Get into a rut early: Do the same process the same way. Accumulate idioms. Standardize. The only difference(!) between Shakespeare and you was the size of his idiom list - not the size of his vocabulary.

As Will Rogers would have said, "There is no such thing as a free variable."

What does it say about our culture that personality is now considered a technology, a tool of the trade, not only in politics but in business and the professions? Has everyone been forced to become an actor? In sixteenth century England, actors were.

For a long time it puzzled me how something so expensive, so leading edge, could be so useless. And then it occurred to me that a computer is a stupid machine with the ability to do incredibly smart things, while computer programmers are smart people with the ability to do incredibly stupid things. They are, in short, a perfect match.

Bill Gates is a very rich man today... and do you want to know why? The answer is one word: versions.

I'm struck by the insidious, computer-driven tendency to take things out of the domain of muscular activity and put them into the domain of mental activity.

The Star Trek computer doesn't seem that interesting. They ask it random questions, it thinks for a while. I think we can do better than that.

I can't uninstall it, there seems to be some kind of 'Uninstall Shield'.

I still have my laptop but I haven't used it. I'm a paper man, not electronic.

Where there is the necessary technical skill to move mountains, there is no need for the faith that moves mountains.

Life is about family and technology.

I find sitting at a specially equipped desk in front of some pretty ugly plastics and staring at a little window is a very unnatural event.

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

Programming today is a race between software engineers striving to build bigger and better idiot-proof programs, and the Universe trying to produce bigger and better idiots. So far, the Universe is winning.

A language that doesn't affect the way you think about programming, is not worth knowing.

Some people think technology has the answers.

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