Technology Quotes

Recursion is the root of computation since it trades description for time.

Advances in computer technology and the Internet have changed the way America works, learns, and communicates. The Internet has become an integral part of America's economic, political, and social life.

They're growing at three to four times the personal computer market.

If your computer speaks English, it was probably made in Japan.

If the automobile had followed the same development cycle as the computer, a Rolls-Royce would today cost $100, get a million miles per gallon, and explode once a year, killing everyone inside.

We have yet to see the full impact of the open, global marketplace. By 1997 all raw materials and technology will be available everywhere in the world. The only differences between countries and markets will be skill levels, education, and the level of empowerment of the workplace.

Windows NT crashed. I am the Blue Screen of Death. No one hears your screams.

Dating a girl is just like writing software. Everything's going to work just fine in the testing lab (dating), but as soon as you have contract with a customer (marriage), then your program (life) is going to be facing new situations you never expected. You'll be forced to patch the code (admit you're wrong) and then the code (wife) will just end up all bloated and unmaintainable in the end.

Competition is always a fantastic thing, and the computer industry is intensely competitive. Whether it's Google or Apple or free software, we've got some fantastic competitors and it keeps us on our toes.

I do not fear computers. I fear the lack of them.

Software expands to consume all available resources.

We're seeing how the videos translate to the live shows and how the technology is really reaching kids.

Technology does not run an enterprise, relationships do.

As soon as we started programming, we found to our surprise that it wasn’t as easy to get programs right as we had thought. Debugging had to be discovered. I can remember the exact instant when I realized that a large part of my life from then on was going to be spent in finding mistakes in my own programs.

Simplicity does not precede complexity, but follows it.

Chaos reigns within. Reflect, repent, and reboot. Order shall return.

God never made his work for man to mend.

If you tried to read every document on the web, then for each day's effort you would be a year further behind in your goal.

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.

WWW? Nice toy, but what a waste of time.

Why is it drug addicts and computer afficionados are both called users?

Good code is its own best documentation.

Programming today is a race between software engineers striving to build bigger and better idiot-proof programs, and the Universe trying to produce bigger and better idiots. So far, the Universe is winning.

Around computers it is difficult to find the correct unit of time to measure progress. Some cathedrals took a century to complete. Can you imagine the grandeur and scope of a program that would take as long?

In June 1994, while it is still our hobby, we renamed it "yahoo" to stand for "yet another hierarchical officious oracle".