Engineering Quotes and Sayings

The idea that Bill Gates has appeared like a knight in shining armor to lead all his customers out of a mire of technological chaos neatly ignores the fact that it was he who by peddling second-hand, second-rate technology, led them all into it in the first place.

It has become appallingly obvious that our technology has exceeded our humanity ..

Programming today is a race between software engineers striving to build bigger and better idiot-proof programs, and the Universe trying to produce bigger and better idiots. So far, the Universe is winning.

Optimist: The glass is half full.
Pessimist: The glass is half empty.
Re-engineering Consultant: That glass is twice as large as it needs to be.

Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.

When a train goes through a tunnel and it gets dark, you don't throwaway the ticket and jump off.You sit still and trust the engineer.

If email had been around before the telephone was invented, people would have said, "Hey, forget email! With this new telephone invention I can actually talk to people!"

The good news: Computers allow us to work 100% faster. The bad news: They generate 300% more work.

Optimist: "The glass is half full."
Pessimist: "The glass is half empty."
Engineer: "That glass is twice as large as it needs to be."

Programming today is a race between software
engineers striving to build bigger and better idiot-proof programs, and the Universe trying to produce bigger and better idiots. So far, the
Universe is winning.

Don't worry about people stealing your ideas. If your ideas are any good, you'll have to ram them down people's throats.

The first 90 percent of the code accounts for the first 90 percent of the development time...The remaining 10 percent of the code accounts for the
other 90 percent of the development time.