Technology Quotes

It is a commonplace of modern technology that problems have solutions before there is knowledge of how they are to be solved.

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

To understand a program you must become both the machine and the program.

Though the Chinese should adore APL, it's FORTRAN they put their money on.

I think Microsoft named .Net so it wouldn’t show up in a Unix directory listing.

An adequate bootstrap is a contradiction in terms.

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

Apple really hasn't weighed in on the sub-$1,000 computer category. Their next step could be refreshing their current products and making pricing changes.

The use of COBOL cripples the mind; its teaching should therefore be regarded as a criminal offense.

What is the difference between a Turing machine and the modern computer? It's the same as that between Hillary's ascent of Everest and the establishment of a Hilton hotel on its peak.

The probability of a flawless demo is inversely proportional to the number of people watching, raised to the power of the amount of money involved.

The attention span of a computer is only as long as its electrical cord.

You can define advertising as the science of creating and placing media that interrupts the consumer and then gets him or her to take some action.

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

The production of too many useful things results in too many useless people.

MS-DOS isn't dead, it just smells that way.

If brute force doesn't solve your problems, then you aren't using enough.

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.

There is a chasm of carbon and silicon the software can't bridge.

If the human race wants to go to hell in a basket, technology can help it get there by jet.

Apparently, Windows 98 is going to be renamed 'Diana, Princess of Windows'. It's overrated, overpriced, consumes loads of resources and crashes spectacularly...

I completely love playing and designing games and always will. I am so into games that I listen to game music all day. That may sound strange, but you can guarantee I'm a hardcore gamer and would never let you down by designing a crappy title.

Prolonged contact with the computer turns mathematicians into clerks and vice versa.

We're changing the world with technology.