Technology Quotes

Windows 95: It's like upgrading from Reagan to Bush.

Of course, the best way to get accurate information on Usenet is to post something wrong and wait for corrections.

Life is about family and technology.

Unix was not designed to stop you from doing stupid things, because that would also stop you from doing clever things.

Optimism is an occupational hazard of programming; feedback is the treatment.

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.

A lot of companies have chosen to downsize, and maybe that was the right thing for them. We chose a different path. Our belief was that if we kept putting great products in front of customers, they would continue to open their wallets.

Overall, OS/2's problems fall into two categories: IBM and Microsoft.

In a 5 year period we get one superb programming language. Only we can't control when the 5 year period will be.

Fifty years of programming language research, and we end up with C++?

Daddy, what does FORMATTING DRIVE C mean?

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

I wish life had an Undo function.

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

Windows NT addresses 2 Gigabytes of RAM, which is more than any application will ever need.

This is not a phone business. This is the smallest video camera, it's the smallest computer, smallest TV.

Considering the current sad state of our computer programs, software development is clearly still a black art, and cannot yet be called an engineering discipline.

Two men were examining the output of the new computer in their department. After an hour or so of analyzing the data, one of them remarked: "Do you realize it would take 400 men at least 250 years to make a mistake this big ?

This is something we're very committed to, it's something that I think people are underestimating right now as they've seen some of the dot-com promises not come through. I think they're missing the fact that the basic technology is moving forward, the new platforms are here and this vision of the digital decade will be a reality.

The Net interprets censorship as damage and routes around it.

Modern technology Owes ecology An apology.

There's a lot that can be done for people who are using technology in a better way.

First and foremost, the Internet is unique since it is THE only interactive medium -- and that's important because from a content, service, and communications perspective, we web folks try to take advantage of that interactivity.

Capitalist production, therefore, develops technology, and the combining together of various processes into a social whole, only by sapping the original sources of all wealth - the soil and the labourer.

It is dangerously destabilizing to have half the world on the cutting edge of technology while the other half struggles on the bare edge of survival.