Technology Quotes

There are managers so preoccupied with their e-mail messages that they never look up from their screens to see what's happening in the nondigital world.

WinNT: All the headaches of Unix, but in a pretty, windowed environment.

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

Build a program that even a fool can use, and only a fool will want to use it.

Software suppliers are trying to make their software packages more ‘user-friendly’… Their best approach so far has been to take all the old brochures and stamp the words ‘user-friendly’ on the cover.

We will create a civilization of the Mind in Cyberspace. May it be more humane and fair than the world your governments have made before.

It’s really hard to design products by focus groups. A lot of times, people don’t know what they want until you show it to them.

Life would be so much easier if we only had the source code.

Programmers are not to be measured by their ingenuity and their logic but by the completeness of their case analysis.

It would take a lot of time and effort (to repair the computers). And they can't run (programs and games) kids are interested in today. They're not even on the Internet. We wouldn't be offering them much of a carrot.

Technology is so much fun but we can drown in our technology. The fog of information can drive out knowledge.

Sometimes I think the only universal in the computing field is the fetch-execute cycle.

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

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.

Part of the inhumanity of the computer is that, once it is competently programmed and working smoothly, it is completely honest.

It has been said that the great scientific disciplines are examples of giants standing on the shoulders of other giants. It has also been said that the software industry is an example of midgets standing on the toes of other midgets.

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?

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.

Computers make it easier to do a lot of things, but most of the things they make it easier to do don't need to be done.

Like punning, programming is a play on words.

The US Nuclear Security Administration runs the Blue Gene supercomputer. It is supposed to be the top super computer in the world ? and it runs on GNU Linux. Of the top 10 super computers in the world, seven run on GNU Linux. From a security point of view, there is a case to be made.

How could this be a problem in a country where we have Intel and Microsoft?

The Internet's been so great, and it's so nice to have fans do nice, elaborate websites, but I think the down side is some of the things... for real fans to go on and see that 90 percent of the information isn't true or to see pictures that aren't really me, or for them to be able to sell these things, that's one of the down sides, I think.

People keep asking me what I think of it now that it's done. Hence my protest: The Web is not done!

Simplicity does not precede complexity, but follows it.