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I remember the difficulty we had in the beginning replacing magnetic cores in memories and eventually we had both cost and performance advantages. But it wasn't at all clear in the beginning.
Windows is just DOS in drag.
The computer programmer is a creator of universes for which he alone is responsible. Universes of virtually unlimited complexity can be created in the form of computer programs.
The danger from computers is not that they will eventually get as smart as men, but that we will meanwhile agree to meet them halfway.
A programmer is a person who passes as an exacting expert on the basis of being able to turn out, after innumerable punching, an infinite series of incomprehensive answers calculated with micrometric precisions from vague assumptions based on debatable figures taken from inconclusive documents and carried out on instruments of problematical accuracy by persons of dubious reliability and questionable mentality for the avowed purpose of annoying and confounding a hopelessly defenseless department that was unfortunate enough to ask for the information in the first place.
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.
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.
In software, we rarely have meaningful requirements. Even if we do, the only measure of success that matters is whether our solution solves the customer’s shifting idea of what their problem is.
Technological progress is like an axe in the hands of a pathological criminal.
If Gore invented the Internet, I invented spell-check.
To go forward, you must backup.
They say if you play a Microsoft CD backwards, you hear satanic messages. Thats nothing, cause if you play it forwards, it installs Windows.
It was a pivotal moment in the history of computers and the history of advertising.
AOL is like the cockroach left after the nuclear bomb hits. They know how to survive.
I'm a great believer in new technology and I think new technology is very scary for newspaper companies.
Technology is just a tool. In terms of getting the kids working together and motivating them, the teacher is the most important.
Why do we want intelligent terminals when there are so many stupid users ?
Recursion is the root of computation since it trades description for time.
I think that it's always possible to have a great company if you have great ideas. I will say that since the web has become more commercialized, it also takes some good financial resources to build a great business, but as I always say, you have to have the idea first.
If Unix is the face of the future I want to go back to quill pens.
Technological progress has merely provided us with more efficient means for going backwards.
Beware of computer programmers that carry screwdrivers.
We have the mini and the micro computer. In what semantic niche would the pico computer fall?
The most important computer is the one that rages in our skulls and ever seeks that satisfactory external emulator. The standarization of real computers would be a disaster - and so it probably won't happen.
To err is human, but to really foul things up requires a computer.