Technology Quotes

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.

I think if you do something and it turns out pretty good, then you should go do something else wonderful, not dwell on it for too long. Just figure out what’s next.

In English every word can be verbed. Would that it were so in our programming languages.

Over the centuries the Indians developed sign language for communicating phenomena of interest. Programmers from different tribes (FORTRAN, LISP, ALGOL, SNOBOL, etc.) could use one that doesn't require them to carry a blackboard on their ponies.

Macintosh computer are easy to use. It's also easy to stick your hand in a wood chipper.

Efforts to protect critical computer networks have unfortunately not kept pace with the march of technology.

Yesterday it worked Today it is not working Windows is like that

For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for Nature cannot be fooled.

Ours is a world of nuclear giants and ethical infants. If we continue to develop our technology without wisdom or prudence, our servant may prove to be our executioner.

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

Technology favors horrible people.

There are broken toilets left there, old computers and miscellaneous garbage. They are totally unsupervised. The recycling company is good, but when people want to dump trash, they dump trash.

A computer is like an Old Testament god, with a lot of rules and no mercy.

Better to be a geek than an idiot.

I want people to understand the amazing, positive way our software can make leisure time more enjoyable, and work and businesses more successful.

Structured Programming supports the law of the excluded muddle.

I’ve finally learned what ‘upward compatible’ means. It means we get to keep all our old mistakes.

Pentiums melt in your PC, not in your hand.

Most of you are familiar with the virtues of a programmer. There are three, of course: laziness, impatience, and hubris.

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?

It is better to have 100 functions operate on one data structure than 10 functions on 10 data structures.

Technology... is a queer thing. It brings you great gifts with one hand, and it stabs you in the back with the other.

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

Adding programmers to a late project makes it later.

A distributed system is one in which the failure of a computer you didn't even know existed can render your own computer unusable.