There has never been an unexpectedly short debugging period in the history of computers.
Interpretation
Debugging is often a lengthy and complex process, as issues in computer systems are rarely resolved quickly.
This quote highlights the challenges of debugging in computer science, suggesting that finding and fixing errors in software is rarely a straightforward and quick task. The statement serves as a reminder of the complexities involved in programming and the expectation that serious debugging is generally a time-consuming process.
In practice
In a software development team meeting, to set realistic expectations around timelines.
Internet-centric companies have already begun changing the rules with binge-watching, flexible running times, fewer commercials, and crowd-sourced content. The brainpower - and just plain power - of the most valued tech firms will change things even more.
Technology tends toward avoidance of risks by investors. Uncertainty is ruled out if possible. People generally prefer the predictable. Few recognize how destructive this can be, how it imposes severe limits on variability and thus makes whole populations fatally vulnerable to the shocking ways our universe can throw the dice.
Allowing a handful of broadband carriers to determine what people see and do online would fundamentally undermine the features that have made the Internet such a success, and could permanently compromise the Internet as a platform for the free exchange of information, commerce, and ideas.
If we allow our self-congratulatory adoration of technology to distract us from our own contact with each other, then somehow the original agenda has been lost.
Security is an endless race - one that you can lead but never decisively win. Yesterday's best defenses cannot fend off the attacks of today or tomorrow.
Technology is a tool, and it's a platform. Nobody gets arrested for being a blogger; people get arrested for dissent. Nobody gets arrested for putting information about themselves online; they get arrested for being an activist. I'm a strong believer in the fact that you should not blame the tools; you should blame the circumstances.
If it keeps up, man will atrophy all his limbs but the push-button finger.
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