Technology Quotes

The best way to prepare [to be a programmer] is to write programs, and to study great programs that other people have written. In my case, I went to the garbage cans at the Computer Science Center and fished out listings of their operating system.

My favorite thing about the Internet is that you get to go into the private world of real creeps without having to smell them.

They should never have entered him in that computer. It's just common sense? that's the bottom line. I don't think it should have gotten this far.

Real programmers can write assembly code in any language.

You will not even have enough time to go online and download all the patches to your computer before it is infected.

We are Microsoft. Resistance Is Futile. You Will Be Assimilated.

The Web is like a dominatrix. Everywhere I turn, I see little buttons ordering me to Submit.

Man is the best computer we can put aboard a spacecraft... and the only one that can be mass produced with unskilled labor.

The Internet is not just one thing, it's a collection of things - of numerous communications networks that all speak the same digital language.

Beware of computer programmers that carry screwdrivers.

Steve Jobs may have the apple, but Bill Gates has the entire orchard !

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

First learn computer science and all the theory. Next develop a programming style. Then forget all that and just hack.

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

If you automate a mess, you get an automated mess.

One does not learn computing by using a hand calculator, but one can forget arithmetic.

Back up my hard drive? How do I put it in reverse?

Never let a computer know you're in a hurry.

Technology is a gift of God. After the gift of life it is perhaps the greatest of God's gifts. It is the mother of civilizations, of arts and of sciences.

Unix is simple. It just takes a genius to understand its simplicity.

I like my job because it involves learning. I like being around smart people who are trying to figure out new things. I like the fact that if people really try they can figure out how to invent things that actually have an impact.

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

The bulk of all patents are crap. Spending time reading them is stupid. It’s up to the patent owner to do so, and to enforce them.

Imagination is more important than knowledge. For knowledge is limited to all we now know and understand, while imagination embraces the entire world, and all there ever will be to know and understand.

They have computers, and they may have other weapons of mass destruction.