Archive for April, 2006
“Software is a thought process. To patent it is comparable to patenting induction or deduction.”
“I have never met a man so ignorant that I couldn’t learn something from him.”
“And if you go too far up, abstraction-wise, you run out of oxygen. Sometimes smart thinkers just don’t know when to stop, and they create these absurd, all-encompassing, high-level pictures of the universe that are all good and fine, but don’t actually mean anything at all.”
“The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and all science. He to whom this emotion is a stranger, who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe, is as good as dead; his eyes are closed.”
“Technology feeds on itself. Technology makes more technology possible.”
“We live in a society exquisitely dependent on science and technology, in which hardly anyone knows anything about science and technology.”
“Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.”
“If it wasn’t for the last minute panic, nothing would ever get done.”
“Design without code is just a daydream. Code without design is a nightmare”