The idea that Bill Gates has appeared like a
knight in shining armor to lead all his customers
out of a mire of technological chaos neatly
ignores the fact that it was he who by peddling
second-hand, second-rate technology, led them all
into it in the first place.
- Douglas Adams
Author, Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy.
It has become appallingly obvious that our
technology has exceeded our humanity
- Albert Einstein
(03/14/1879-1955)
Programming today is a race between software
engineers striving to build bigger and better
idiot-proof programs, and the Universe trying to
produce bigger and better idiots. So far, the
Universe is winning.
- Rich Cook
Optimist: The glass is half full. Pessimist:
The glass is half empty. Re-engineering
Consultant: That glass is twice as large as it
needs to be.
- The Economics Press
Any sufficiently advanced technology is
indistinguishable from magic.
- Arthur C. Clarke
When a train goes through a tunnel and it gets
dark, you don't throwaway the ticket and jump off.
You sit still and trust the engineer.
- Corrie Ten Boom
If email had been around before the telephone was
invented, people would have said, "Hey, forget
email! With this new telephone invention I can
actually talk to people!"
- The Exectuive Speechwriter Newsletter
The good news: Computers allow us to work 100%
faster. The bad news: They generate 300% more
work.
- Unknown
Optimist: "The glass is half full."
Pessimist: "The glass is half empty."
Engineer: "That glass is twice as large as it
needs to be."
- Unknown
Programming today is a race between software
engineers striving to build bigger and better
idiot-proof programs, and the Universe trying to
produce bigger and better idiots. So far, the
Universe is winning.
- Rich Cook
Don't worry about people stealing your ideas. If
your ideas are any good, you'll have to ram them
down people's throats.
- Howard Aiken, IBM engineer
The first 90 percent of the code accounts for the
first 90 percent of the development time...The
remaining 10 percent of the code accounts for the
other 90 percent of the development time.
- Tom Cargill