Technology Quotes

Too few people in computer science are aware of some of the informational challenges in biology and their implications for the world. We can store an incredible amount of data very cheaply.

PHP is a minor evil perpetrated and created by incompetent amateurs, whereas Perl is a great and insidious evil perpetrated by skilled but perverted professionals.

In all large corporations, there is a pervasive fear that someone, somewhere is having fun with a computer on company time. Networks help alleviate that fear.

We have technology, finally, that for the first time in human history allows people to really maintain rich connections with much larger numbers of people.

Food for thought: A fully-protected-and-updated Windows box cannot, by definition, have an uptime of more than 30 days.

First and foremost, the Internet is unique since it is THE only interactive medium -- and that's important because from a content, service, and communications perspective, we web folks try to take advantage of that interactivity.

Around computers it is difficult to find the correct unit of time to measure progress. Some cathedrals took a century to complete. Can you imagine the grandeur and scope of a program that would take as long?

Ooops. My brain just hit a bad sector.

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.

There is only one satisfying way to boot a computer.

Advances in computer technology and the Internet have changed the way America works, learns, and communicates. The Internet has become an integral part of America's economic, political, and social life.

Fifty years of programming language research, and we end up with C++?

The Star Trek computer doesn't seem that interesting. They ask it random questions, it thinks for a while. I think we can do better than that.

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?

Computing is not about computers any more. It is about living.

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

We are always saying to ourself.. we have to innovate. We got to come up with that breakthrough. In fact, the way software works.. so long as you are using your existing software.. you don't pay us anything at all. So we're only paid for breakthroughs.

Everyone has a right to a university degree in America, even if it's in Hamburger Technology.

In headlines today, the dreaded killfile virus spread across the country adding 'aol.com' to people's Usenet kill files everywhere. The programmer of the virus still remains anonymous, but has been nominated several times for a Nobel peace prize.

If you don't want to be replaced by a computer, don't act like one.

Why is it drug addicts and computer afficionados are both called users?

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

Apparently, Windows 98 is going to be renamed 'Diana, Princess of Windows'. It's overrated, overpriced, consumes loads of resources and crashes spectacularly...

When music technology takes the place of musicianship, it's time to pull the plug.

If the human race wants to go to hell in a basket, technology can help it get there by jet.