Technology Quotes

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

It is easier to write an incorrect program than understand a correct one.

People say Microsoft paid $14M for using the Rolling Stones song 'Start me up' in their commercials. This is wrong. Microsoft payed $14M only for a part of the song. For instance, they didn't use the line 'You'll make a grown man cry'.

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

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.

The system of nature, of which man is a part, tends to be self-balancing, self-adjusting, self-cleansing. Not so with technology.

First, solve the problem. Then, write the code.

The computer provides the only way to give students a real foundation in 21st-century skills.

Ooops. My brain just hit a bad sector.

Good programmers use their brains, but good guidelines save us having to think out every case.

Our biggest demographic is the intelligent professional. They've got a computer on their desk, they've got a web browser and they check us out. We are many people's morning cup of coffee.

The greatest danger in modern technology isn't that machines will begin to think like people, but that people will begin to think like machines.

It is dangerously destabilizing to have half the world on the cutting edge of technology while the other half struggles on the bare edge of survival.

I just bought a Mac to help me design the next Cray.

Back up my hard drive? How do I put it in reverse?

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

I also introduce skills like using a hula hoop or jumping rope. I think many kids this age need a break from the computer or video games to learn these very important physical skills.

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

Worth noting: running 'reboot -h' does NOT produce a helpful usage message.

If Gore invented the Internet, I invented spell-check.

It is not about bits, bytes and protocols, but profits, losses and margins.

The Net interprets censorship as damage and routes around it.

The great thing about a computer notebook is that no matter how much you stuff into it, it doesn't get bigger or heavier.

Often it is the means that justify the ends: Goals advance technique and technique survives even when goal structures crumble.

Considering the current sad state of our computer programs, software development is clearly still a black art, and cannot yet be called an engineering discipline.