Technical Decision Quotes

Quite frankly, even if the choice of C were to do *nothing* but keep the C++ programmers out, that in itself would be a huge reason to use C.

An engineer cannot participate in irrationality.

It's the engine. They should have never had that. The biggest mistake people have made... I say, "people," because it wasn't just me alone, was not insisting Mercedes supply Red Bull an engine. Because had they supplied the same engine as they had, you would have seen good racing, you would have seen Red Bull up there last year.

For whatever reason, I have never separated the technical from the ethical.

We chose it because we deal with huge amounts of data. Besides, it sounds really cool.

The biggest mistake we made as a company was betting too much on HTML5.

Science is concerned with what is possible while engineering is concerned with choosing, from among the many possible ways, one that meets a number of often poorly stated economic and practical objectives.

I've never used Sybase in my life. How would I make an intelligent decision about this versus that with a Sybase extension?

Sun Microsystems had the right people to make Java into a first-class language, and I believe it was the Sun marketing people who rushed the thing out before it should have gotten out.