Technology Quotes

Microsoft is now talking about the digital nervous system... I guess I would be nervous if my system was built on their technology too.

A LISP programmer knows the value of everything, but the cost of nothing.

I remember turning in my first assignment in elementary school using the computer and the teachers were kind of confused that I had printed it.

Innovation distinguishes between a leader and a follower.

I hope that the internet will get to become ubiquitous and affordable, and if that's achieved, I think it'll be a big part of people's lives - for the better.

Within a computer natural language is unnatural.

The digital revolution is far more significant than the invention of writing or even of printing.

There's a great desire to be computer-savvy among those 50 and older. They're really hungry for it.

The demand for digital textbooks has increased since its introduction to the marketplace. As students become more familiar with them and computers get faster, larger and more portable, this product will gain in popularity.

Grove giveth and Gates taketh away.

Technology without hatred can be a blessing. Technology with hatred is always a disaster.

The trouble with programmers is that you can never tell what a programmer is doing until it’s too late.

The difference between e-mail and regular mail is that computers handle e-mail, and computers never decide to come to work one day and shoot all the other computers.

With engineering, I view this year's failure as next year's opportunity to try it again. Failures are not something to be avoided. You want to have them happen as quickly as you can so you can make progress rapidly.

Like car accidents, most hardware problems are due to driver error.

Users /nm./: collective term for those who use computers. Users are divided into three types: novice, intermediate and expert. Novice Users: people who are afraid that simply pressing a key might break their computer. Intermediate Users: people who don't know how to fix their computer after they've just pressed a key that broke it. Expert Users: people who break other people's computers.

Style used to be an interaction between the human soul and tools that were limiting. In the digital era, it will have to come from the soul alone.

Good code is its own best documentation.

Perhaps if we wrote programs from childhood on, as adults we'd be able to read them.

And bring me a hard copy of the Internet so I can do some serious surfing.

God never made his work for man to mend.

If debugging is the process of removing bugs, then programming must be the process of putting them in.

The city’s central computer told you? R2D2, you know better than to trust a strange computer!

Apparently, Windows 98 is going to be renamed 'Diana, Princess of Windows'. It's overrated, overpriced, consumes loads of resources and crashes spectacularly...

There used to be this country called the Soviet Union; it's not there anymore. Our technology was better than theirs.