Technology Quotes

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

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.

Life would be so much easier if we only had the source code.

The digital revolution is far more significant than the invention of writing or even of printing.

Wherever there is modularity there is the potential for misunderstanding: Hiding information implies a need to check communication.

A program without a loop and a structured variable isn't worth writing.

The difference between e-mail and regular mail is that computers handle e-mail, and computers never decide to come to work one day and shoot all the other computers.

There was a time when nails were high-tech. There was a time when people had to be told how to use a telephone. Technology is just a tool. People use tools to improve their lives.

Windows 95: It's like upgrading from Reagan to Bush.

Programmers are not to be measured by their ingenuity and their logic but by the completeness of their case analysis.

In programming, as in everything else, to be in error is to be reborn.

If you automate a mess, you get an automated mess.

For systems, the analogue of a face-lift is to add to the control graph an edge that creates a cycle, not just an additional node.

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

One of the main causes of the fall of the Roman Empire was that–lacking zero–they had no way to indicate successful termination of their C programs.

A thunderstorm is God's way of saying you spend too much time in front of the computer.

COBOL programmers understand why women hate periods.

Good code is its own best documentation.

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

The demand for digital textbooks has increased since its introduction to the marketplace. As students become more familiar with them and computers get faster, larger and more portable, this product will gain in popularity.

The effort required to correct an error increases exponentially with time.

After a day spent staring at a computer monitor, think of (a) book as a kind of screen saver for your brain.

I see no progress in this industry. These clocks are no faster than the ones they made a hundred years ago.

In a world without walls and fences, who needs Windows and Gates ?

There's a great desire to be computer-savvy among those 50 and older. They're really hungry for it.