Technology Quotes

If I have seen further it is by standing on the shoulders of giants.

Programming is like sex: one mistake and you’re providing support for a lifetime.

Writing code has a place in the human hierarchy worth somewhere above grave robbing and beneath managing.

I can't uninstall it, there seems to be some kind of 'Uninstall Shield'.

Microsoft is not the answer. Microsoft is the question. NO is the answer.

It is a tremendous responsibility for us to have all the eyes focused on what we do and give people exactly what they need when they ask for it.

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.

If we believe in data structures, we must believe in independent (hence simultaneous) processing. For why else would we collect items within a structure? Why do we tolerate languages that give us the one without the other?

I just bought a Mac to help me design the next Cray.

Ooops. My brain just hit a bad sector.

We are now able to see things in nature of what was previously only available in computer simulation.

Any non-trivial program contains at least one error.

If computers had invented humans as part of a BI program (biological intelligence), humans would have been tossed aside as barely having achieved perfect game play at Tic-Tac-Toe.

The first rule of any technology used in a business is that automation applied to an efficient operation will magnify the efficiency. The second is that automation applied to an inefficient operation will magnify the inefficiency.

If you tried to read every document on the web, then for each day's effort you would be a year further behind in your goal.

Controlling complexity is the essence of computer programming.

eBay's business is based on enabling someone to do business with another person, and to do that, they first have to develop some measure of trust, either in the other person or the system.

The goal of computation is the emulation of our synthetic abilities, not the understanding of our analytic ones.

Be nice to nerds. Chances are you'll end up working for one.

'Intel Inside': The world's most widely used warning label.

There's a lot of Google fascination out there and we share it, and we're going to compete, we're going to compete very, very hard.

Crap... Someone knocked over my recycle bin... There's icons all over my desktop...

A program is never less than 90% complete, and never more than 95% complete.

Difference between a virus and windows ? Viruses rarely fail.

If you give someone a program, you will frustrate them for a day; if you teach them how to program, you will frustrate them for a lifetime.