Technology Quotes

So many good ideas are never heard from again once they embark in a voyage on the semantic gulf.

This is a highly reliable power source. Being a large credit card processor, doing $6 million an hour in transactions, our computers have to work.

Controlling complexity is the essence of computer programming.

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

To better understand why you need a personal computer, let's take a look at the pathetic mess you call your life.

We're making a major move of the Internet, and runway. Polo.com is a natural extension of both polo.com and our collection business.

The debate rages on: is PL/I Bachtrian or Dromedary?

Whenever two programmers meet to criticize their programs, both are silent.

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

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'.

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A LISP programmer knows the value of everything, but the cost of nothing.

Paper is no longer a big part of my day. I get 90% of my news online, and when I go to a meeting and want to jot things down, I bring my Tablet PC. It's fully synchronized with my office machine so I have all the files I need.

If we continue to develop our technology without wisdom or prudence, our servant may prove to be our executioner.

One good reason why computers can do more work than people is that they never have to stop and answer the phone.

For systems, the analogue of a face-lift is to add to the control graph an edge that creates a cycle, not just an additional node.

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

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

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.

It would appear that we have reached the limits of what it is possible to achieve with computer technology, although one should be careful with such statements, as they tend to sound pretty silly in 5 years.

Moore's Law - The number of transistors and resistors on a chip doubles every 24 months

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

We're seeing how the videos translate to the live shows and how the technology is really reaching kids.

There are two ways to write error-free programs; only the third one works.

In view of all the deadly computer viruses that have been spreading lately, Weekend Update would like to remind you: when you link up to another computer, you're linking up to every computer that that computer has ever linked up to.