Technology Quotes

You can measure a programmer's perspective by noting his attitude on the continuing vitality of FORTRAN.

Complexity kills. It sucks the life out of developers, it makes products difficult to plan, build and test, it introduces security challenges, and it causes end-user and administrator frustration.

The spoken word was the first technology by which man was able to let go of his environment in order to grasp it in a new way.

Our business is about technology, yes. But it's also about operations and customer relationships.

Come to think of it, there are already a million monkeys on a million typewriters, and Usenet is nothing like Shakespeare.

Technology has the shelf life of a banana.

But they are useless. They can only give you answers.

Think of it! With VLSI we can pack 100 ENIACS in 1 sq. cm.

Home is where you hang your @.

The computer is the most extraordinary of man's technological clothing; it's an extension of our central nervous system. Beside it, the wheel is a mere hula-hoop.

Upwards of two hundred species.. mostly of the large, slow-breeding variety.. are becoming extinct here every day because more and more of the earth's carrying capacity is systematically being converted into human carrying capacity. These species are being burnt out, starved out, and squeezed out of existence.. thanks to technologies that most people, I'm afraid, think of as technologies of peace. I hope it will not be too long before the technologies that support our population explosion begin to be perceived as no less hazardous to the future of life on this planet than the endless production of radioactive wastes.

All of the books in the world contain no more information than is broadcast as video in a single large American city in a single year. Not all bits have equal value.

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?

We're only at the beginning of what we have to do here.

A year spent in artificial intelligence is enough to make one believe in God.

Functions delay binding; data structures induce binding. Moral: Structure data late in the programming process.

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.

There are two ways of constructing a software design. One way is to make it so simple that there are obviously no deficiencies. And the other way is to make it so complicated that there are no obvious deficiencies.

Not even computers will replace committees, because committees buy computers.

One can only display complex information in the mind. Like seeing, movement or flow or alteration of view is more important than the static picture, no matter how lovely.

Some programming languages manage to absorb change, but withstand progress.

Yesterday it worked Today it is not working Windows is like that

Adapting old programs to fit new machines usually means adapting new machines to behave like old ones.

All of the biggest technological inventions created by man - the airplane, the automobile, the computer - says little about his intelligence, but speaks volumes about his laziness.

As Will Rogers would have said, "There is no such thing as a free variable."