Technology Quotes

The last good thing written in C++ was the Pachelbel Canon.

Bringing computers into the home won't change either one, but may revitalize the corner saloon.

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

Not everything that can be counted counts, and not everything that counts can be counted.

The newest computer can merely compound, at speed, the oldest problem in the relations between human beings, and in the end the communicator will be confronted with the old problem, of what to say and how to say it.

The protection of personal information stored on our nation's computer systems is critical to public trust in those networks and to the health of our economy.

A program is never less than 90% complete, and never more than 95% complete.

To err is human--and to blame it on a computer is even more so.

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.

E-mail — When it absolutely, positively has to get lost at the speed of light.

Any significant boost in technology could just as easily be a rigged demo.

We hope that the Internet becomes even more affordable and more ubiquitous over time, and our mission at Yahoo! is to continue to keep our services available AND useful on all these platforms.

I am a hard-core believer that the clean desktop is the way to go... At the same time, we told OEMs that if they were going to put a bunch of icons on the desktop, then so were we.

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.

In a 5 year period we get one superb programming language. Only we can't control when the 5 year period will be.

Users /nm./: collective term for those who use computers. Users are divided into three types: novice, intermediate and expert. Novice Users: people who are afraid that simply pressing a key might break their computer. Intermediate Users: people who don't know how to fix their computer after they've just pressed a key that broke it. Expert Users: people who break other people's computers.

If a listener nods his head when you're explaining your program, wake him up.

The modern computer hovers between the obsolescent and the nonexistent.

Get into a rut early: Do the same process the same way. Accumulate idioms. Standardize. The only difference(!) between Shakespeare and you was the size of his idiom list - not the size of his vocabulary.

Technology is just a tool. In terms of getting the kids working together and motivating them, the teacher is the most important.

We kid ourselves if we think that the ratio of procedure to data in an active data-base system can be made arbitrarily small or even kept small.

God never made his work for man to mend.

We've arranged a civilization in which most crucial elements profoundly depend on science and technology.

It is practically impossible to teach good programming style to students that have had prior exposure to BASIC. As potential programmers, they are mentally mutilated beyond hope of regeneration.

Treat your password like your toothbrush. Don't let anybody else use it, and get a new one every six months.