Technology Quotes

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

People always fear change. People feared electricity when it was invented, didn't they? People feared coal, they feared gas-powered engines... There will always be ignorance, and ignorance leads to fear. But with time, people will come to accept their silicon masters.

The federal government is like a handicapped turtle trying to crawl around and keep up with the rabbit, which is technology.

Over time, it's becoming more and more understood by people that we're acting in their interests. And that's a very, very powerful thing for our brand.

Better to be a geek than an idiot.

After growing wildly for years, the field of computing appears to be reaching its infancy.

To understand a program you must become both the machine and the program.

Simplicity does not precede complexity, but follows it.

Windows NT addresses 2 Gigabytes of RAM, which is more than any application will ever need.

The computer programmer is a creator of universes for which he alone is responsible. Universes of virtually unlimited complexity can be created in the form of computer programs.

The only people who have anything to fear from free software are those whose products are worth even less.

Unix is simple. It just takes a genius to understand its simplicity.

We will create a civilization of the Mind in Cyberspace. May it be more humane and fair than the world your governments have made before.

From then on, when anything went wrong with a computer, we said it had bugs in it.

The best museums and museum exhibits about science or technology give you the feeling that, hey, this is interesting, but maybe I could do something here, too.

Adding programmers to a late project makes it later.

A Windows user spends 1/3 of his life sleeping, 1/3 working, 1/3 waiting.

The most amazing achievement of the computer software industry is its continuing cancellation of the steady and staggering gains made by the computer hardware industry.

A programmer is a person who passes as an exacting expert on the basis of being able to turn out, after innumerable punching, an infinite series of incomprehensive answers calculated with micrometric precisions from vague assumptions based on debatable figures taken from inconclusive documents and carried out on instruments of problematical accuracy by persons of dubious reliability and questionable mentality for the avowed purpose of annoying and confounding a hopelessly defenseless department that was unfortunate enough to ask for the information in the first place.

It would take a lot of time and effort (to repair the computers). And they can't run (programs and games) kids are interested in today. They're not even on the Internet. We wouldn't be offering them much of a carrot.

Optimism is an occupational hazard of programming; feedback is the treatment.

The US Nuclear Security Administration runs the Blue Gene supercomputer. It is supposed to be the top super computer in the world ? and it runs on GNU Linux. Of the top 10 super computers in the world, seven run on GNU Linux. From a security point of view, there is a case to be made.

Sometimes I think the only universal in the computing field is the fetch-execute cycle.

Computers are like air conditioners: they stop working when you open windows.

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