Technology Quotes

Some things Man was never meant to know. For everything else, there's Google.

Documentation is like term insurance: It satisfies because almost no one who subscribes to it depends on its benefits.

If future generations are to remember us more with gratitude than sorrow, we must achieve more than just the miracles of technology. We must also leave them a glimpse of the world as it was created, not just as it looked when we got through with it.

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.

Technological progress is like an axe in the hands of a pathological criminal.

From the time I was 7, when I purchased my first calculator, I was fascinated by the idea of a machine that could compute things.

It is not about bits, bytes and protocols, but profits, losses and margins.

I completely love playing and designing games and always will. I am so into games that I listen to game music all day. That may sound strange, but you can guarantee I'm a hardcore gamer and would never let you down by designing a crappy title.

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

If brute force doesn't solve your problems, then you aren't using enough.

The string is a stark data structure and everywhere it is passed there is much duplication of process. It is a perfect vehicle for hiding information.

Microsoft is not the answer. Microsoft is the question. NO is the answer.

What the country needs are a few labor-making inventions.

They have computers, and they may have other weapons of mass destruction.

Orchestras only need to be sworn at, and a German is consequently at an advantage with them, as English profanity, except in America, has not gone beyond a limited technology of perdition.

We will never become a truly paper-less society until the Palm Pilot folks come out with WipeMe 1.0.

The best way to prepare [to be a programmer] is to write programs, and to study great programs that other people have written. In my case, I went to the garbage cans at the Computer Science Center and fished out listings of their operating system.

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.

The only constructive theory connecting neuroscience and psychology will arise from the study of software.

Five years ago, we thought of the Web as a new medium, not a new economy.

The technologies which have had the most profound effects on human life are usually simple.

Measuring programming progress by lines of code is like measuring aircraft building progress by weight.

Whenever two programmers meet to criticize their programs, both are silent.

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

Considering the flames and intolerance, shouldn't USENET be spelled ABUSENET?