Quotes of All Topics . Occasions . Authors
Right now, computers, which are supposed to be our servant, are oppressing us.
The world is now awash in data and we can see consumers in a lot clearer ways.
I am inspired to design experiences that people actually need and love to use.
We toast the Lisp programmer who pens his thoughts within nests of parentheses.
A picture is worth a thousand words. An interface is worth a thousand pictures.
I think one of the interesting things is that vi is really a mode-based editor.
All problems in Computer Science can be solved by another level of indirection.
I fix things now and then, more often tweak HTML and make scripts to do things.
Computer science is no more about computers than astronomy is about telescopes.
For me, creativity includes problem-solving. That's the broad definition of it.
My main interest is in trying to find radically different kinds of neural nets.
I will not take what you need to give me. I will take what you want to give me.
Be conservative in its sending behavior, and liberal in its receiving behavior.
When I write a paper, I change my notation much more than I change my concepts.
Programs should be written and polished until they acquire publication quality.
Simple models and a lot of data trump more elaborate models based on less data.
Computations are everywhere, once you begin to look at things in a certain way.
My reply is: the software has no known bugs, therefore it has not been updated.
Possibly the only real object-oriented system in working order. (About Internet)
'Linux is a leprosy' - This statement is not grammatically or factually correct.
The Internet does not have a reputation as being a particularly civilized place.
If you're as clever as you can be when you write it, how will you ever debug it?
I listen to mostly-classical music, but mostly by radio - I'm not an audiophile.
The notion of a record is an obsolete remnant of the days of the 80-column card.
Thank goodness we don't have only serious problems, but ridiculous ones as well.
It's soothing to realize that my mind's processes are inherently uncontrollable.
Man is a mimic animal, happiest acting a part, needing a mask to tell the truth.
If you don't fail at least 90 percent of the time, you're not aiming high enough.
Sometimes the easiest way to get something done is to be a little naive about it.
You can't solve a problem with the management of technology with more technology.
In handling resources, strive to avoid disaster rather than to attain an optimum.
I like to bitch and moan about lawyers, but they often have actually good points.
The asparagus effect is what happens sometimes when you render 2D images into 3D.
The stereotypes really play into what kinds of companies women can get funded for.
For books, I don't read much fiction, but like travel essays and good pop-science.
The designer of a new kind of system must participate fully in the implementation.
PL/1, the fatal disease, belongs more to the problem set than to the solution set.
From then on, when anything went wrong with a computer, we said it had bugs in it.
Reliable and transparent programs are usually not in the interest of the designer.
Technology is anything invented after you were born, everything else is just stuff.
The angels and the devils are definitely within us, not within the machines we use.
I made up the term "object-oriented," and I can tell you I did not have C++ in mind.
A good programming language is a conceptual universe for thinking about programming.
I can type faster than I can point. And my mother told me that pointing is impolite.
There's ways to amuse yourself while doing things and thats how I look at efficency.
A programming language is a tool that has profound influence on our thinking habits.
There are about a dozen great computer graphics people and Jim Blinn is six of them.
The way that NetBeans is architected, it's not so much a tool as a tool environment.
An unlimited-length file name is a file. The content of a file is its own best name.
The churning of a human mind is unpredictable, as is the anatomy of the human heart.