Been Quote by Ellen Ullman

The Y2K bug is a genuine technical concern, consuming the energies of many specialists. But the prophecies of doom represent a broader worldview using…

— Virginia Postrel

Y2K hype taps our native discomfort with the realities of a dynamic, evolving social order. It elevates personal, local contact over the impersonality of…

— Virginia Postrel

The Y2K problem is not caused by technical limitations. We simply forgot to think of the problem.

— Hasso Plattner

Y2K has challenged a belief in digital technology that has been almost religious.

— Ellen Ullman

In short, software is eating the world

— Marc Andreessen

“Software is eating the world”

— Marc Andreessen

Prolific programmers contribute to certain disaster.

— Niklaus Wirth

“W. Edwards Deming—that arguably, over 90 percent of problems are due to bad systems, not bad people. However, Greenleaf correctly points out that people…

— Robert K. Greenleaf

“Life 2.0”: life whose hardware is evolved, but whose software is largely designed.”

— Max Tegmark

As our digitally connected world continues to expand, the inherent vulnerabilities in the systems we rely on provide ever greater opportunities for those who…

— David Lidington

Our technologised society is becoming opaque. As technology becomes more ubiquitous and our relationship with digital devices ever more seamless, our technical infrastructure seems…

— Honor Harger

Each new user of a new system uncovers a new class of bugs.

— Brian Kernighan