Technology Quotes

The interesting thing is when we design and architect a server, we don't design it for Windows or Linux, we design it for both. We don't really care, as long as we're selling the one the customer wants.

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

To err is human, but to really foul things up requires a computer.

After growing wildly for years, the field of computing appears to be reaching its infancy.

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

I'm not anti-social; I'm just not user friendly.

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

The term reboot comes from the middle age (before computers). Horses who stopped in mid-stride required a boot to the rear to start again. Thus the term to rear-boot, later abbreviated into reboot.

Technology does not run an enterprise, relationships do.

I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination. Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world.

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

Structured Programming supports the law of the excluded muddle.

To turn really interesting ideas and fledgling technologies into a company that can continue to innovate for years, it requires a lot of disciplines.

The first 90% of the code accounts for the first 90% of the development time. The remaining 10% of the code accounts for the other 90% of the development time.

Food for thought: A fully-protected-and-updated Windows box cannot, by definition, have an uptime of more than 30 days.

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 computer is the ultimate polluter: its feces are indistinguish- able from the food it produces.

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

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?

Everyone has a right to a university degree in America, even if it's in Hamburger Technology.

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.

Worth noting: running 'reboot -h' does NOT produce a helpful usage message.

The Net interprets censorship as damage and routes around it.

Silos can't interoperate unless the technology does.

They say if you play a Microsoft CD backwards, you hear satanic messages. Thats nothing, cause if you play it forwards, it installs Windows.