Technology Quotes

Technology is dominated by two types of people: Those who understand what
they do not manage. Those who manage what they do not understand. Putt's Law

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

Lovers of problem solving, they are apt to play chess at lunch or doodle in
algebra over cocktails, speak an esoteric language that some suspect is just
their way of mystifying outsiders. Deeply concerned about logic and sensitive to
its breakdown in everyday life, they often annoy friends by asking them to
rephrase their questions more logically.

Time Magazine in 1965

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