Technology Quotes

Documentation is like term insurance: It satisfies because almost no one who subscribes to it depends on its benefits.

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

Bill Gates is so rich because he got his wish when he said: 'I wish I had a nickel for every time a PC reboots'.

I used to think that cyberspace was fifty years away. What I thought was fifty years away, was only ten years away. And what I thought was ten years away... it was already here. I just wasn't aware of it yet.

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

Everyone can be taught to sculpt: Michelangelo would have had to be taught not to. So it is with great programmers.

Always code as if the guy who ends up maintaining your code will be a violent psychopath who knows where you live.

We always overestimate the change that will occur in the next two years and underestimate the change that will occur in the next ten. Don't let yourself be lulled into inaction.

Good code is its own best documentation.

I believe that Silicon Valley is truly a place of excellence and the impact of this tiny community on the world is completely disproportionate to its size. We are the undisputed leaders of technological change. But with our abundance of talent and resources, we also have the opportunity to be the pioneers of social change and, ultimately, this may be our greatest contribution.

Capitalist production, therefore, develops technology, and the combining together of various processes into a social whole, only by sapping the original sources of all wealth - the soil and the labourer.

What do people mean when they say the computer went down on them?

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

If future generations are to remember us more with gratitude than sorrow, we must achieve more than just the miracles of technology. We must also leave them a glimpse of the world as it was created, not just as it looked when we got through with it.

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.

The research rat of the future allows experimentation without manipulation of the real world. This is the cutting edge of modeling technology.

Within a computer natural language is unnatural.

The telephone wire, as we know it, has become too slow and too small to handle Internet traffic. It took 75 years for telephones to be used by 50 million customers, but it took only four years for the Internet to reach that many users.

The Internet is a great way to get on the net.

Pentiums melt in your PC, not in your hand.

There’s an old story about the person who wished his computer were as easy to use as his telephone. That wish has come true, since I no longer know how to use my telephone.

Why do we want intelligent terminals when there are so many stupid users ?

Re graphics: A picture is worth 10K words - but only those to describe the picture. Hardly any sets of 10K words can be adequately described with pictures.

Technology is a way of organizing the universe so that man doesn't have to experience it.

Do you realize if it weren't for Edison we'd be watching TV by candlelight?