Quotes About Complexity

Complexity kills. It sucks the life out of developers, it makes products difficult to plan, build and test, it introduces security challenges, and it causes end-user and administrator frustration.

Computer : a million morons working at the speed of light.

The inside of a computer is as dumb as hell but it goes like mad!

Technology is ruled by two types of people: those who manage what they do not understand, and those who understand what they do not manage.

It is a mistake to suppose that any technological innovation has a one-sided effect. Every technology is both a burden and a blessing; not either-or, but this-and-that.

Too few people recognize that the high technology so celebrated today is essentially a mathematical technology.

We live in a society exquisitely dependent on science and technology and yet have cleverly arranged things so that almost no one understands science and technology.

Electronic calculators can solve problems which the man who made them cannot solve; but no government-subsidized commission of engineers and physicists could create a worm.

Most software today is very much like an Egyptian pyramid with millions of bricks piled on top of each other, with no structural integrity, but just done by brute force and thousands of slaves.

By far the greatest danger of Artificial Intelligence is that people conclude too early that they understand it.

Tech Jacket shares the same tone as Invincible, but the subject matter is very different. Where Invincible is about perfection, Tech Jacket is about flaws.

It is a commonplace of modern technology that problems have solutions before there is knowledge of how they are to be solved.

Buying the right computer and getting it to work properly is no more complicated than building a nuclear reactor from wristwatch parts in a darkened room using only your teeth.

Right now, we have the most complex relationship with technology that we've ever had. Your regular person has more technology in their life now than the whole world had 100 years ago.

There is a weird phenomenon where technology seems to be getting dumber in some ways as it gets smarter.

We've got paleolithic emotions, medieval institutions, and god-like technologies.

This problem, too, will look simple after it is solved.

Beauty is more important in computing than anywhere else in technology because software is so complicated. Beauty is the ultimate defense against complexity.

The technology is good and it's bad. You know what you're dealing with out there musically, but my head stops at this electronic stuff. I don't quite know what I'm dealing with out there yet.

Simplicity design axiom: The complexity of the information appliance is that of the task, not the tool. The technology is invisible.

There's no such thing as technology in the singular, only technologies in the plural.

The world has become more complex as technology and easy travel mixes cultures without homogenizing them.

I think that the massive, overarching, interconnected systems of technology tend to make us a little insecure, somewhat pliable, and susceptible to half-beliefs.

With each passing year, because of advances in computer technology, there are more things, each more sophisticated, that we aren't allowed to do any more.