Quotes about browser

A collection of quotes on the topic of browser, day, document, documentation.

Quotes about browser

“Anyone who slaps a ‘this page is best viewed with Browser X’ label on a Web page appears to be yearning for the bad old days, before the Web, when you had very little chance of reading a document written on another computer, another word processor, or another network.”

Tim Berners-Lee (1955) British computer scientist, inventor of the World Wide Web

Technology Review (July 1996)

Appearance, Chance, Reading

“If you find you are not understanding my explaination for a joke, hit "F5" on your browser and the page will refresh and I will explain it again.”

Ryan North (1980) Canadian webcomic writer and programmer

Jokes Explained page http://www.insaneabode.com/roboterotica/jokesexplained/index.html

Understanding

“Browser compatibility problems are nature's way of saying "stop trying to be so fuckin' clever."”

Jamie Zawinski (1968) American programmer

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Way, Nature, Problem

“When we tell the story about what's happening today with browsers ten years from now, I want the thing that replaces Windows to be Windows. I don't want to wake up in a position one day where the guys at Netscape say, "Isn't Windows just that little thing that we use to put up menus and draw lines? Let's just write our own and suck it up into our client."”

Steve Ballmer (1956) American businessman who was the chief executive officer of Microsoft

Interview by CNET https://www.cnet.com/news/microsoft-vp-steve-ballmer-speaks/ (May 1996) <br class="br">1990s

Guy, Drawing

“The fundamental deficiency in HTML is that it reduces hypertext and the intertwinedness of human communication to a question of how it is rendered and what happens when you click on it. … HTML is to the browser what PostScript is to the laser printer.”

Erik Naggum (1965–2009) Norwegian computer programmer

Re: LISP and AI http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.lisp/msg/92b063a1787b26c8 (Usenet article). <br class="br">Usenet articles, Miscellaneous

Communication, Question

“All OO languages show some tendency to suck programmers into the trap of excessive layering. Object frameworks and object browsers are not a substitute for good design or documentation, but they often get treated as one. Too many layers destroy transparency: It becomes too difficult to see down through them and mentally model what the code is actually doing. The Rules of Simplicity, Clarity, and Transparency get violated wholesale, and the result is code full of obscure bugs and continuing maintenance problems.”

Eric S. Raymond book The Art of Unix Programming

The Art of Unix Programming: Unix and Object-Oriented Languages, Eric S. Raymond, 2003, 2014-08-06 http://www.catb.org/esr/writings/taoup/html/unix_and_oo.html,

Problem

“One thing we have got to change in our strategy - allowing Office documents to be rendered very well by other peoples browsers is one of the most destructive things we could do to the company. We have to stop putting any effort into this and make sure that Office documents very well depends on PROPRIETARY IE capabilities.”

Bill Gates (1955) American business magnate and philanthropist

1998 a memo to the Office product group http://antitrust.slated.org/www.iowaconsumercase.org/011607/2000/PX02991.pdf <br class="br">1990s

People, Effort, Change, Dependency

“The average consumer does not know the difference between browser, Internet and search box.”

Mitchell Baker (1959) Chairwoman; former CEO

Questions For: Mitchell Baker, Mozilla Chairman http://blogs.wsj.com/digits/2009/03/04/questions-for-mitchell-baker-mozilla-chairman/ (Andrew LaVallee, Digits, Wall Street Journal, 04 March 2009)

Search, Box

“Any operating system without a browser is going to be fucking out of business. Should we improve our product, or go out of business?”

Bill Gates (1955) American business magnate and philanthropist

"In Search of the Real Bill Gates," Time (20 October 2005)
2000s

Business

“Antifa is a phantom movement by design. It is leaderless and structured to be functional through small, independent organizations, known as affinity groups, and individuals. Only the ideology needs to be propagated for lone wolves or groups to be inspired. Part of that ideology involves extensive training on ‘digital security,’ that is, using encrypted tools, apps, and web browsers to completely evade detection by authorities and others. It is no surprise that scant evidence materialized in the early days of the investigation into accused rioters. Antifa are trained to hide their political affiliations.”

Andy Ngo (1986) American conservative journalist and social‐media personality

Source: Unmasked: Inside Antifa’s Radical Plan to Destroy Democracy (2021), p. 18

Training, Parting