Technology Quotes

Like punning, programming is a play on words.

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

Any teacher that can be replaced by a computer, deserves to be.

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

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.

Mac users swear by their computers. PC users swear at their computers.

If you can't make it good, at least make it look good.

The danger from computers is not that they will eventually get as smart as men, but that we will meanwhile agree to meet them halfway.

Make no mistake about it: Computers process numbers - not symbols. We measure our understanding (and control) by the extent to which we can arithmetize an activity.

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

As we go forward, I hope we're going to continue to use technology to make really big differences in how people live and work.

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.

Structured Programming supports the law of the excluded muddle.

If it keeps up, man will atrophy all his limbs but the push-button finger.

In seeking the unattainable, simplicity only gets in the way.

Applying computer technology is simply finding the right wrench to pound in the correct screw.

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

The cybernetic exchange between man, computer and algorithm is like a game of musical chairs: The frantic search for balance always leaves one of the three standing ill at ease.

Unix is user-friendly. It's just very selective about who its friends are.

What do people mean when they say the computer went down on them?

We started putting together a "hotlist" of favorite sites from David and myself, and we called it "Jerry's Guide to the World Wide Web" Before we knew it, people from all over the world were using this database that we created.

I can't uninstall it, there seems to be some kind of 'Uninstall Shield'.

They should never have entered him in that computer. It's just common sense? that's the bottom line. I don't think it should have gotten this far.

Computers can now keep a man's every transgression recorded in a permanent memory bank, duplicating with complex programming and intricate wiring a feat his wife handles quite well without fuss or fanfare.

If google made $1 everytime someone used them to find an answer to a tech support question, they would own microsoft.