101 Great Computer Programming Quotes

Computer Programming Quotes
Computer Programming Quotes
101 Great Computer Programming Quotes
Development, Humor, Software

Computers
1. 'Computers are useless. They can only give you answers.'
(Pablo Picasso)

2. 'Computers are like bikinis. They save people a lot of guesswork.'
(Sam Ewing)
3. 'They have computers, and they may have other weapons of mass destruction.'
(Janet Reno)
4. 'That's what's cool about working with computers. They don't argue, they remember everything, and they don't drink all your beer.'
(Paul Leary)
5. 'If the automobile had followed the same development cycle as the computer, a Rolls-Royce would today cost $100, get a million miles per gallon, and explode once a year, killing everyone inside.'
(Robert X. Cringely)
Computer Intelligence
6. 'Computers are getting smarter all the time. Scientists tell us that soon they will be able to talk to us. (And by 'they', I mean 'computers'. I doubt scientists will ever be able to talk to us.)'
(Dave Barry)

7. 'I've noticed lately that the paranoid fear of computers becoming intelligent and taking over the world has almost entirely disappeared from the common culture. Near as I can tell, this coincides with the release of MS-DOS.'
(Larry DeLuca)

8. 'The question of whether computers can think is like the question of whether submarines can swim.'
(Edsger W. Dijkstra)
9. 'It's ridiculous to live 100 years and only be able to remember 30 million bytes. You know, less than a compact disc. The human condition is really becoming more obsolete every minute.'
(Marvin Minsky)
Trust
10. 'The city's central computer told you? R2D2, you know better than to trust a strange computer!'
(C3PO)

11. 'Never trust a computer you can't throw out a window.'
(Steve Wozniak)

Hardware

12. 'Hardware: The parts of a computer system that can be kicked.'
(Jeff Pesis)
Software

13. '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.'
(Alan Kay)

14. 'I've finally learned what 'upward compatible' means. It means we get to keep all our old mistakes.'
(Dennie van Tassel)

Operating Systems
15. 'There are two major products that come out of Berkeley: LSD and UNIX. We don't believe this to be a coincidence.'
(Jeremy S. Anderson)

16. '19 Jan 2038 at 3:14:07 AM'
(End of the word according to Unix'2^32 seconds after January 1, 1970)

17. 'Every operating system out there is about equal' We all suck.'
(Microsoft senior vice president Brian Valentine describing the state of the art in OS security, 2003)

18. 'Microsoft has a new version out, Windows XP, which according to everybody is the 'most reliable Windows ever.' To me, this is like saying that asparagus is 'the most articulate vegetable ever.' '
(Dave Barry)

Internet
19. 'The Internet? Is that thing still around?'
(Homer Simpson)

20. 'The Web is like a dominatrix. Everywhere I turn, I see little buttons ordering me to Submit.'
(Nytwind)

21. 'Come to think of it, there are already a million monkeys on a million typewriters, and Usenet is nothing like Shakespeare.'
(Blair Houghton)

Software Industry
22. 'The most amazing achievement of the computer software industry is its continuing cancellation of the steady and staggering gains made by the computer hardware industry.'
(Henry Petroski)

23. 'True innovation often comes from the small startup who is lean enough to launch a market but lacks the heft to own it.'
(Timm Martin)

24. 'It has been said that the great scientific disciplines are examples of giants standing on the shoulders of other giants. It has also been said that the software industry is an example of midgets standing on the toes of other midgets.'
(Alan Cooper)

25. 'It is not about bits, bytes and protocols, but profits, losses and margins.'
(Lou Gerstner)

26. 'We are Microsoft. Resistance Is Futile. You Will Be Assimilated.'
(Bumper sticker)

Software Demos
27. 'No matter how slick the demo is in rehearsal, when you do it in front of a live audience, the probability of a flawless presentation is inversely proportional to the number of people watching, raised to the power of the amount of money involved.'
(Mark Gibbs)

Software Patents
28. 'The bulk of all patents are crap. Spending time reading them is stupid. It's up to the patent owner to do so, and to enforce them.'
(Linus Torvalds)

Complexity
29. 'Controlling complexity is the essence of computer programming.'
(Brian Kernigan)

30. '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.'
(Ray Ozzie)

31. 'There are two ways of constructing a software design. One way is to make it so simple that there are obviously no deficiencies. And the other way is to make it so complicated that there are no obvious deficiencies.'
(C.A.R. Hoare)

32. 'The function of good software is to make the complex appear to be simple.'
(Grady Booch)

Ease of Use
33. 'Just remember: you're not a 'dummy,' no matter what those computer books claim. The real dummies are the people who'though technically expert'couldn't design hardware and software that's usable by normal consumers if their lives depended upon it.'
(Walter Mossberg)

34. '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.'
(Bill Gates)

35. 'There's an old story about the person who wished his computer were as easy to use as his telephone. That wish has come true, since I no longer know how to use my telephone.'
(Bjarne Stroustrup)

Users
36. 'Any fool can use a computer. Many do.'
(Ted Nelson)

37. 'There are only two industries that refer to their customers as 'users'.'
(Edward Tufte)

Programmers
38. 'Programmers are in a race with the Universe to create bigger and better idiot-proof programs, while the Universe is trying to create bigger and better idiots. So far the Universe is winning.'
(Rich Cook)

39. 'Most of you are familiar with the virtues of a programmer. There are three, of course: laziness, impatience, and hubris.'
(Larry Wall)

40. 'The trouble with programmers is that you can never tell what a programmer is doing until it's too late.'
(Seymour Cray)

41. 'That's the thing about people who think they hate computers. What they really hate is lousy programmers.'
(Larry Niven)

42. 'For a long time it puzzled me how something so expensive, so leading edge, could be so useless. And then it occurred to me that a computer is a stupid machine with the ability to do incredibly smart things, while computer programmers are smart people with the ability to do incredibly stupid things. They are, in short, a perfect match.'
(Bill Bryson)

43. 'Computer science education cannot make anybody an expert programmer any more than studying brushes and pigment can make somebody an expert painter.'
(Eric Raymond)

44. 'A programmer is a person who passes as an exacting expert on the basis of being able to turn out, after innumerable punching, an infinite series of incomprehensive answers calculated with micrometric precisions from vague assumptions based on debatable figures taken from inconclusive documents and carried out on instruments of problematical accuracy by persons of dubious reliability and questionable mentality for the avowed purpose of annoying and confounding a hopelessly defenseless department that was unfortunate enough to ask for the information in the first place.'
(IEEE Grid newsmagazine)

45. 'A hacker on a roll may be able to produce'in a period of a few months'something that a small development group (say, 7-8 people) would have a hard time getting together over a year. IBM used to report that certain programmers might be as much as 100 times as productive as other workers, or more.'
(Peter Seebach)

46. 'The best programmers are not marginally better than merely good ones. They are an order-of-magnitude better, measured by whatever standard: conceptual creativity, speed, ingenuity of design, or problem-solving ability.'
(Randall E. Stross)

47. 'A great lathe operator commands several times the wage of an average lathe operator, but a great writer of software code is worth 10,000 times the price of an average software writer.'
(Bill Gates)

Programming
48. 'Don't worry if it doesn't work right. If everything did, you'd be out of a job.'
(Mosher's Law of Software Engineering)

49. 'Measuring programming progress by lines of code is like measuring aircraft building progress by weight.'
(Bill Gates)

50. 'Writing code has a place in the human hierarchy worth somewhere above grave robbing and beneath managing.'
(Gerald Weinberg)

51. 'First learn computer science and all the theory. Next develop a programming style. Then forget all that and just hack.'
(George Carrette)

52. 'First, solve the problem. Then, write the code.'
(John Johnson)

53. 'Optimism is an occupational hazard of programming; feedback is the treatment.'
(Kent Beck)

54. 'To iterate is human, to recurse divine.'
(L. Peter Deutsch)

55. 'The best thing about a boolean is even if you are wrong, you are only off by a bit.'
(Anonymous)

56. 'Should array indices start at 0 or 1? My compromise of 0.5 was rejected without, I thought, proper consideration.'
(Stan Kelly-Bootle)

Programming Languages
57. 'There are only two kinds of programming languages: those people always bitch about and those nobody uses.'
(Bjarne Stroustrup)

58. 'PHP is a minor evil perpetrated and created by incompetent amateurs, whereas Perl is a great and insidious evil perpetrated by skilled but perverted professionals.'
(Jon Ribbens)

59. 'The use of COBOL cripples the mind; its teaching should therefore be regarded as a criminal offense.'
(E.W. Dijkstra)

60. 'It is practically impossible to teach good programming style to students that have had prior exposure to BASIC. As potential programmers, they are mentally mutilated beyond hope of regeneration.'
(E. W. Dijkstra)

61. 'I think Microsoft named.Net so it wouldn't show up in a Unix directory listing.'
(Oktal)

62. 'There is no programming language'no matter how structured'that will prevent programmers from making bad programs.'
(Larry Flon)

63. 'Computer language design is just like a stroll in the park. Jurassic Park, that is.'
(Larry Wall)

C/C++
64. 'Fifty years of programming language research, and we end up with C++?'
(Richard A. O'Keefe)

65. 'Writing in C or C++ is like running a chain saw with all the safety guards removed.'
(Bob Gray)

66. 'In C++ it's harder to shoot yourself in the foot, but when you do, you blow off your whole leg.'
(Bjarne Stroustrup)

67. 'C++ : Where friends have access to your private members.'
(Gavin Russell Baker)

68. 'One of the main causes of the fall of the Roman Empire was that'lacking zero'they had no way to indicate successful termination of their C programs.'
(Robert Firth)

Java
69. 'Java is, in many ways, C++'.'
(Michael Feldman)

70. 'Saying that Java is nice because it works on all OSes is like saying that anal sex is nice because it works on all genders.'
(Alanna)

71. 'Fine, Java MIGHT be a good example of what a programming language should be like. But Java applications are good examples of what applications SHOULDN'T be like.'
(pixadel)

72. 'If Java had true garbage collection, most programs would delete themselves upon execution.'
(Robert Sewell)

Open Source
73. 'Software is like sex: It's better when it's free.'
(Linus Torvalds)

74. 'The only people who have anything to fear from free software are those whose products are worth even less.'
(David Emery)

Code
75. 'Good code is its own best documentation.'
(Steve McConnell)

76. 'Any code of your own that you haven't looked at for six or more months might as well have been written by someone else.'
(Eagleson's Law)

77. 'The first 90% of the code accounts for the first 90% of the development time. The remaining 10% of the code accounts for the other 90% of the development time.'
(Tom Cargill)

Software Development
78. 'Good programmers use their brains, but good guidelines save us having to think out every case.'
(Francis Glassborow)

79. 'In software, we rarely have meaningful requirements. Even if we do, the only measure of success that matters is whether our solution solves the customer's shifting idea of what their problem is.'
(Jeff Atwood)

80. '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.'
(Bill Clinton)

81. 'You can't have great software without a great team, and most software teams behave like dysfunctional families.'
(Jim McCarthy)

Debugging
82. 'As soon as we started programming, we found to our surprise that it wasn't as easy to get programs right as we had thought. Debugging had to be discovered. I can remember the exact instant when I realized that a large part of my life from then on was going to be spent in finding mistakes in my own programs.'
(Maurice Wilkes discovers debugging, 1949)

83. 'Debugging is twice as hard as writing the code in the first place. Therefore, if you write the code as cleverly as possible, you are'by definition'not smart enough to debug it.'
(Brian Kernighan)

84. 'If debugging is the process of removing bugs, then programming must be the process of putting them in.'
(Edsger W. Dijkstra)


Quality
85. 'I don't care if it works on your machine! We are not shipping your machine!'
(Vidiu Platon)

86. 'Programming is like sex: one mistake and you're providing support for a lifetime.'
(Michael Sinz)

87. 'There are two ways to write error-free programs; only the third one works.'
(Alan J. Perlis)

88. 'You can either have software quality or you can have pointer arithmetic, but you cannot have both at the same time.'
(Bertrand Meyer)

89. 'If McDonalds were run like a software company, one out of every hundred Big Macs would give you food poisoning, and the response would be, 'We're sorry, here's a coupon for two more.' '
(Mark Minasi)
90. 'Always code as if the guy who ends up maintaining your code will be a violent psychopath who knows where you live.'
(Martin Golding)
91. 'To err is human, but to really foul things up you need a computer.'
(Paul Ehrlich)
92. 'A computer lets you make more mistakes faster than any invention in human history'with the possible exceptions of handguns and tequila.'
(Mitch Radcliffe)
Predictions
93. 'Everything that can be invented has been invented.'
(Charles H. Duell, Commissioner, U.S. Office of Patents, 1899)
94. 'I think there's a world market for about 5 computers.'
(Thomas J. Watson, Chairman of the Board, IBM, circa 1948)
95. '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.'
(John Von Neumann, circa 1949)

96. 'But what is it good for?'
(Engineer at the Advanced Computing Systems Division of IBM, commenting on the microchip, 1968)

97. 'There is no reason for any individual to have a computer in his home.'
(Ken Olson, President, Digital Equipment Corporation, 1977)

98. '640K ought to be enough for anybody.'
(Bill Gates, 1981)

99. 'Windows NT addresses 2 Gigabytes of RAM, which is more than any application will ever need.'
(Microsoft, on the development of Windows NT, 1992)

100. 'We will never become a truly paper-less society until the Palm Pilot folks come out with WipeMe 1.0.'
(Andy Pierson)

101. 'If it keeps up, man will atrophy all his limbs but the push-button finger.'
(Frank Lloyd Wright)
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101 More Great Computer Quotes
Development, Humor
by Timm Martin and Mr. Aguilar.
Computing
1. 'I do not fear computers. I fear lack of them.'
' Isaac Asimov
2. 'A computer once beat me at chess, but it was no match for me at kick boxing.'
' Emo Philips
3. 'Computer Science is no more about computers than astronomy is about telescopes.'
' Edsger W. Dijkstra
4. 'The computer was born to solve problems that did not exist before.'
' Bill Gates
5. 'Software is like entropy: It is difficult to grasp, weighs nothing, and obeys the Second Law of Thermodynamics; i.e., it always increases.'
' Norman Augustine
6. 'Software is a gas; it expands to fill its container.'
' Nathan Myhrvold
7. 'All parts should go together without forcing. You must remember that the parts you are reassembling were disassembled by you. Therefore, if you can't get them together again, there must be a reason. By all means, do not use a hammer.'
' IBM Manual, 1925
8. 'Standards are always out of date. That's what makes them standards.'
' Alan Bennett
9. 'Physics is the universe's operating system.'
' Steven R Garman
10. 'It's hardware that makes a machine fast. It's software that makes a fast machine slow.'
' Craig Bruce
Knowledge
11. 'Imagination is more important than knowledge. For knowledge is limited, whereas imagination embraces the entire world, stimulating progress, giving birth to evolution.'
' Albert Einstein
12. 'The greatest enemy of knowledge is not ignorance, it is the illusion of knowledge.'
' Stephen Hawking
13. 'The more you know, the more you realize you know nothing.'
' Socrates
14. 'Tell me and I forget. Teach me and I remember. Involve me and I learn.'
' Benjamin Franklin
15. 'Real knowledge is to know the extent of one's ignorance.'
' Confucius
16. 'If people never did silly things, nothing intelligent would ever get done.'
' Ludwig Wittgenstein
17. 'Getting information off the Internet is like taking a drink from a fire hydrant.'
' Mitchell Kapor
Users
18. 'If you think your users are idiots, only idiots will use it.'
' Linus Torvalds
19. 'From a programmer's point of view, the user is a peripheral that types when you issue a read request.'
' P. Williams
20. 'Where is the 'any' key?'
' Homer Simpson, in response to the message, 'Press any key'
21. 'Computers are good at following instructions, but not at reading your mind.'
' Donald Knuth
22. 'There is only one problem with common sense; it's not very common.'
' Milt Bryce
23. 'Your most unhappy customers are your greatest source of learning.'
' Bill Gates
24. 'Let us change our traditional attitude to the construction of programs: Instead of imagining that our main task is to instruct a computer what to do, let us concentrate rather on explaining to human beings what we want a computer to do.'
' Donald E. Knuth
Internet
25. 'The Internet? We are not interested in it.'
' Bill Gates, 1993
26. 'The best way to get accurate information on Usenet is to post something wrong and wait for corrections.'
' Matthew Austern
Professionals
27. 'The most likely way for the world to be destroyed, most experts agree, is by accident. That's where we come in; we're computer professionals. We cause accidents.'
' Nathaniel Borenstein
28. 'Pessimists, we're told, look at a glass containing 50% air and 50% water and see it as half empty. Optimists, in contrast, see it as half full. Engineers, of course, understand the glass is twice as big as it needs to be.'
' Bob Lewis
29. 'In a room full of top software designers, if two agree on the same thing, that's a majority.'
' Bill Curtis
30. 'It should be noted that no ethically-trained software engineer would ever consent to write a DestroyBaghdad procedure. Basic professional ethics would instead require him to write a DestroyCity procedure, to which Baghdad could be given as a parameter.'
' Nathaniel S. Borenstein
31. 'Mostly, when you see programmers, they aren't doing anything. One of the attractive things about programmers is that you cannot tell whether or not they are working simply by looking at them. Very often they're sitting there seemingly drinking coffee and gossiping, or just staring into space. What the programmer is trying to do is get a handle on all the individual and unrelated ideas that are scampering around in his head.'
' Charles M. Strauss
32. 'If you think you are worth what you know, you are very wrong. Your knowledge today does not have much value beyond a couple of years. Your value is what you can learn and how easily you can adapt to the changes this profession brings so often.'
' Jose M. Aguilar
Programming
33. 'Programs must be written for people to read, and only incidentally for machines to execute.'
' Abelson and Sussman
34. 'Commenting your code is like cleaning your bathroom ' you never want to do it, but it really does create a more pleasant experience for you and your guests.'
' Ryan Campbell
35. 'We have to stop optimizing for programmers and start optimizing for users.'
' Jeff Atwood
36. 'Low-level programming is good for the programmer's soul.'
' John Carmack
37. 'It's OK to figure out murder mysteries, but you shouldn't need to figure out code. You should be able to read it.'
' Steve McConnell
38. 'If we wish to count lines of code, we should not regard them as 'lines produced' but as 'lines spent.''
' Edsger Dijkstra
39. 'Programming can be fun, so can cryptography; however they should not be combined.'
' Kreitzberg and Shneiderman
40. 'Before software should be reusable, it should be usable.'
' Ralph Johnson
41. 'If you automate a mess, you get an automated mess.'
' Rod Michael
42. 'Looking at code you wrote more than two weeks ago is like looking at code you are seeing for the first time.'
' Dan Hurvitz
43. 'It is easier to change the specification to fit the program than vice versa.'
' Alan Perlis
44. 'Less than 10% of the code has to do with the ostensible purpose of the system; the rest deals with input-output, data validation, data structure maintenance, and other housekeeping.'
' Mary Shaw
45. 'If you have a procedure with ten parameters, you probably missed some.'
' Alan Perlis
46. 'How rare it is that maintaining someone else's code is akin to entering a beautifully designed building, which you admire as you walk around and plan how to add a wing or do some redecorating. More often, maintaining someone else's code is like being thrown headlong into a big pile of slimy, smelly garbage.'
' Bill Venners
47. 'Code generation, like drinking alcohol, is good in moderation.'
' Alex Lowe
Development
48. 'Simplicity, carried to the extreme, becomes elegance.'
' Jon Franklin
49. 'A program is never less than 90% complete, and never more than 95% complete.'
' Terry Baker
50. 'When you are stuck in a traffic jam with a Porsche, all you do is burn more gas in idle. Scalability is about building wider roads, not about building faster cars.'
' Steve Swartz
51. 'Everyone by now presumably knows about the danger of premature optimization. I think we should be just as worried about premature design ' designing too early what a program should do.'
' Paul Graham
52. 'Programming without an overall architecture or design in mind is like exploring a cave with only a flashlight: You don't know where you've been, you don't know where you're going, and you don't know quite where you are.'
' Danny Thorpe
53. 'The best way to predict the future is to implement it.'
' David Heinemeier Hansson
54. 'We need above all to know about changes; no one wants or needs to be reminded 16 hours a day that his shoes are on.'
' David Hubel
55. 'On two occasions I have been asked, 'If you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able rightly to apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question.'
' Charles Babbage
56. 'Make everything as simple as possible, but not simpler.'
' Albert Einstein
57. 'Today, most software exists, not to solve a problem, but to interface with other software.'
' IO Angell
58. 'Good specifications will always improve programmer productivity far better than any programming tool or technique.'
' Milt Bryce
59. 'The difference between theory and practice is that in theory, there is no difference between theory and practice.'
' Richard Moore
Quality
60. 'Don't document the problem, fix it.'
' Atli Bj'rgvin Oddsson
61. 'As a rule, software systems do not work well until they have been used, and have failed repeatedly, in real applications.'
' Dave Parnas
62. 'If the code and the comments do not match, possibly both are incorrect.'
' Norm Schryer
63. 'I think it's a new feature. Don't tell anyone it was an accident.'
' Larry Wall
64. 'If you don't handle [exceptions], we shut your application down. That dramatically increases the reliability of the system.'
' Anders Hejlsberg
65. 'When debugging, novices insert corrective code; experts remove defective code.'
' Richard Pattis
66. 'In a software project team of 10, there are probably 3 people who produce enough defects to make them net negative producers.'
' Gordon Schulmeyer
67. 'I think it is inevitable that people program poorly. Training will not substantially help matters. We have to learn to live with it.'
' Alan Perlis
68. 'Program testing can be a very effective way to show the presence of bugs, but is hopelessly inadequate for showing their absence.'
' Edsger Dijkstra
Programming Languages
69. 'Manually managing blocks of memory in C is like juggling bars of soap in a prison shower: It's all fun and games until you forget about one of them.'
' anonymous Usenet user
70. 'There's no obfuscated Perl contest because it's pointless.'
' Jeff Polk
71. 'Java is the most distressing thing to hit computing since MS-DOS.'
' Alan Kay
72. 'There are only two things wrong with C++: The initial concept and the implementation.'
' Bertrand Meyer
73. 'It was a joke, okay? If we thought it would actually be used, we wouldn't have written it!'
' Mark Andreesen, speaking of the HTML tag BLINK
74. 'Web Services are like teenage sex. Everyone is talking about doing it, and those who are actually doing it are doing it badly.'
' Michelle Bustamante
75. 'Perl: The only language that looks the same before and after RSA encryption.'
' Keith Bostic
76. 'I didn't work hard to make Ruby perfect for everyone, because you feel differently from me. No language can be perfect for everyone. I tried to make Ruby perfect for me, but maybe it's not perfect for you. The perfect language for Guido van Rossum is probably Python.'
' Yukihiro Matsumoto, aka 'Matz', creator of Ruby
77. 'XML is not a language in the sense of a programming language any more than sketches on a napkin are a language.'
' Charles Simonyi
78. 'BASIC is to computer programming as QWERTY is to typing.'
' Seymour Papert
79. 'It has been discovered that C++ provides a remarkable facility for concealing the trivial details of a program ' such as where its bugs are.'
' David Keppel
80. 'UNIX is simple. It just takes a genius to understand its simplicity.'
' Dennis Ritchie
81. 'Some people, when confronted with a problem, think 'I know, I'll use regular expressions.' Now they have two problems.'
' Jamie Zawinski
Security
82. 'I think computer viruses should count as life. I think it says something about human nature that the only form of life we have created so far is purely destructive. We've created life in our own image.'
' Stephen Hawking
83. 'The only truly secure system is one that is powered off, cast in a block of concrete and sealed in a lead-lined room with armed guards.'
' Gene Spafford
84. 'Being able to break security doesn't make you a hacker anymore than being able to hotwire cars makes you an automotive engineer.'
' Eric Raymond
85. 'Companies spend millions of dollars on firewalls, encryption and secure access devices, and it's money wasted, because none of these measures address the weakest link in the security chain.'
' Kevin Mitnick
86. 'If you think technology can solve your security problems, then you don't understand the problems and you don't understand the technology.'
' Bruce Schneier
87. 'Hoaxes use weaknesses in human behavior to ensure they are replicated and distributed. In other words, hoaxes prey on the Human Operating System.'
' Stewart Kirkpatrick
88. 'Passwords are like underwear: you don't let people see it, you should change it very often, and you shouldn't share it with strangers.'
' Chris Pirillo
Companies
89. 'I am not out to destroy Microsoft, that would be a completely unintended side effect.'
' Linus Torvalds
90. 'Yes, we have a dress code. You have to dress.'
' Scott McNealy, co-founder of Sun Microsystems
91. 'In an information economy, the most valuable company assets drive themselves home every night. If they are not treated well, they do not return the next morning.'
' Peter Chang
92. 'It's better to wait for a productive programmer to become available than it is to wait for the first available programmer to become productive.'
' Steve McConnell
93. 'I'm not one of those who think Bill Gates is the devil. I simply suspect that if Microsoft ever met up with the devil, it wouldn't need an interpreter.'
' Nicholas Petreley
Predictions
94. 'Two years from now, spam will be solved.'
' Bill Gates, 2004

95. 'The problem of viruses is temporary and will be solved in two years.'
' John McAfee, 1988

96. 'Computer viruses are an urban legend.'
' Peter Norton, 1988

97. 'In 2031, lawyers will be commonly a part of most development teams.'
' Grady Booch

98. 'I don't know what the language of the year 2000 will look like, but I know it will be called Fortran.'
' CA Hoare, 1982

99. 'In the future, computers may weigh no more than 1.5 tonnes.'
' Popular mechanics, 1949

100. 'I see little commercial potential for the Internet for at least ten years.'
' Bill Gates, 1994

101. 'Before man reaches the moon, mail will be delivered within hours from New York to California, to Britain, to India or Australia.'
' Arthur Summerfield, 1959, United States Post