Technology Quotes

Should array indices start at 0 or 1? My compromise of 0.5 was rejected without, I thought, proper consideration.

Technology makes the world a new place.

I still have my laptop but I haven't used it. I'm a paper man, not electronic.

The march of science and technology does not imply growing intellectual complexity in the lives of most people. It often means the opposite.

One would think that if you're anonymous, you'd do anything you want, but groups have their own sense of community and what we can do.

Controlling complexity is the essence of computer programming.

The system of nature, of which man is a part, tends to be self-balancing, self-adjusting, self-cleansing. Not so with technology.

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

Not until a program has been in production for at least six months will its most harmful error be discovered.

Technology happens, it's not good, it's not bad. Is steel good or bad?

The computing field is always in need of new cliches.

Technological progress is like an axe in the hands of a pathological criminal.

Where there is the necessary technical skill to move mountains, there is no need for the faith that moves mountains.

A computer makes it possible to do, in half an hour, tasks which were completely unnecessary to do before.

A good system can't have a weak command language.

Good code is its own best documentation.

Computers in the future may have only 1,000 vacuum tubes and perhapsonly weigh 1 1/2 tons.

Do you realize if it weren't for Edison we'd be watching TV by candlelight?

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?

The best thing about a boolean is even if you are wrong, you are only off by a bit.

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.

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.

The technology at the leading edge changes so rapidly that you have to keep current after you get out of school. I think probably the most important thing is having good fundamentals.

We're making a major move of the Internet, and runway. Polo.com is a natural extension of both polo.com and our collection business.

If a program is useless, it will have to be documented.