Technology Quotes

The computing field is always in need of new cliches.

If a program is useful, it will have to be changed.

It is not a language's weakness but its strengths that control the gradient of its change: Alas, a language never escapes its embryonic sac.

Technology is a way of organizing the universe so that man doesn't have to experience it.

You know you're a geek when... You try to shoo a fly away from the monitor with your cursor. That just happened to me. It was scary.

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

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

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

The best accelerator available for a Mac is one that causes it to go at 9.81 m/s2.

Once you understand how to write a program get someone else to write it.

All programmers are playwrights and all computers are lousy actors.

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

Double your drive space — delete Windows !

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

We've all heard that a million monkeys banging on a million typewriters will eventually reproduce the entire works of Shakespeare. Now, thanks to the Internet, we know this is not true.

INSERT DISK THREE' ? But I can only get two in the drive !

I like my job because it involves learning. I like being around smart people who are trying to figure out new things. I like the fact that if people really try they can figure out how to invent things that actually have an impact.

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

Optimization hinders evolution.

Paper is no longer a big part of my day. I get 90% of my news online, and when I go to a meeting and want to jot things down, I bring my Tablet PC. It's fully synchronized with my office machine so I have all the files I need.

Computers make it easier to do a lot of things, but most of the things they make it easier to do don't need to be done.

I think one of the big errors people are making right now is thinking that old-style businesses will be obsolete, when actually they will be an important part of this new civilization. Some retail groups are introducing e-commerce and think that the "bricks" are no longer useful. But they will continue to be important.

Hardware: where the people in your company's software section will tell you the problem is. Software: where the people in your company's hardware section will tell you the problem is.

Two men were examining the output of the new computer in their department. After an hour or so of analyzing the data, one of them remarked: "Do you realize it would take 400 men at least 250 years to make a mistake this big ?

Users truly don’t know what they want in a program until they use it.