Technology Quotes

There will always be things we wish to say in our programs that in all known languages can only be said poorly.

Only ten percent of the code in any given program will ever execute.

In June 1994, while it is still our hobby, we renamed it "yahoo" to stand for "yet another hierarchical officious oracle".

A friend called me up the other day and talked about investing in a dot-com that sells lobsters. Internet lobsters. Where will this end? The next day he sent me a huge package of lobsters on ice. How low can you stoop?

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

Like car accidents, most hardware problems are due to driver error.

Technology without hatred can be a blessing. Technology with hatred is always a disaster.

Part of the inhumanity of the computer is that, once it is competently programmed and working smoothly, it is completely honest.

All programmers are playwrights and all computers are lousy actors.

You will not even have enough time to go online and download all the patches to your computer before it is infected.

In programming, everything we do is a special case of something more general -- and often we know it too quickly.

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

All of the biggest technological inventions created by man - the airplane, the automobile, the computer - says little about his intelligence, but speaks volumes about his laziness.

Interfaces keep things tidy, but don't accelerate growth: Functions do.

We are always saying to ourself.. we have to innovate. We got to come up with that breakthrough. In fact, the way software works.. so long as you are using your existing software.. you don't pay us anything at all. So we're only paid for breakthroughs.

COBOL programmers understand why women hate periods.

Computers in the future may have only 1,000 vacuum tubes and perhapsonly weigh 1 1/2 tons.

True innovation often comes from the small startup who is lean enough to launch a market but lacks the heft to own it.

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

Syntactic sugar causes cancer of the semicolon.

With engineering, I view this year's failure as next year's opportunity to try it again. Failures are not something to be avoided. You want to have them happen as quickly as you can so you can make progress rapidly.

WWW? Nice toy, but what a waste of time.

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

People say Microsoft paid $14M for using the Rolling Stones song 'Start me up' in their commercials. This is wrong. Microsoft payed $14M only for a part of the song. For instance, they didn't use the line 'You'll make a grown man cry'.

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.