Quotes About Technology

Components are the units of deployment. They are the smallest entities that can be deployed as part of a system.

software has two types of value: the value of its behavior and the value of its structure.

MacBook is at least 1022 more powerful than those early computers that I started using half a century ago

I used to think 2000 lines was a big program. After all, it was a full box of cards that weighed 10 pounds. Now, however, a program isn't really big until it exceeds 100,000 lines.

Paradigms are ways of programming, relatively unrelated to languages. A paradigm tells you which programming structures to use, and when to use them. To date, there have been three such paradigms. For reasons we shall discuss later, there are unlikely to be any others.

Databases should usually not be considered as a major factor of the design and implementation.

Code formatting is about communication, and communication is the professional developer's first order of business.

Don't depend on volatile things. GUIs are volatile.

When software is done right, it requires a fraction of the human resources to create and maintain. Changes are simple and rapid. Defects are few and far between. Effort is minimized, and functionality and flexibility are maximized.

You must understand that when you marry a framework to your application, you will be stuck with that framework for the rest of the life cycle of that application. For better or for worse, in sickness and in health, for richer, for poorer, forsaking all others, you will be using that framework. This is not a commitment to be entered into lightly.

Programming is an act of creation. When we write code we are creating something out of nothing. We are boldly imposing order upon chaos.

Coined the term "Aerial Robotics

I love sci-fi because it leads in the imagination, and I always say it has the most intelligent fans in the world.

You know, my first three or four drafts, you can see, are on legal pads in long hand. And then I go to a typewriter, and I know everybody's switching to a computer. And I'm sort of laughed at.

A species that runs into sustainability limits before it stabilizes its population is probably doomed. Massive starvation, failed technology, and a planet so depleted from the first bloom of civilization that it lacks the means to rebuild.

The gadget's trivial. It's the network that's useful. Not the gadget but the network.

It is the height of stupidity to believe that in the course of your short life, your few decades of consciousness, you can somehow rewire the configurations of your brain through technology and wishful thinking, overcoming the effect of six million years of development. To go against the grain might bring temporary distraction, but time will mercilessly expose your weakness and impatience.

They come to accept things that are made cheaply and quickly. The idea that they might have to expend much effort to get what they want has been eroded by the proliferation of devices that do so much of the work for them, fostering the idea that they deserve all of this—that it is their inherent right to have and to consume what they want.

we continually consult our smartphones as a kind of substitute pair of eyes upon us.

pioneer a totally new field, known as neurobotics.

Progress and technology have not rewired us; they have merely altered the forms of our emotions and the type of irrationality that comes with them.

Daily Law: Rationality is something to be acquired by individuals, not by mass movements or technological progress.

We must make ourselves study as deeply as possible the technology we use, the functioning of the group we work in, the economics of our field, its lifeblood. We must constantly ask the questions—how do things work, how do decisions get made, how does the group interact?

To go along with this self-control, we must do whatever we can to cultivate a greater memory capacity—one of the most important skills in our technologically oriented environment.