Technology Quotes

If McDonalds were run like a software company, one out of every hundred Big Macs would give you food poisoning, and the response would be, ‘We’re sorry, here’s a coupon for two more.

Americans have the right to have their medical decisions made by them and their doctors, and not by those bureaucrats sitting behind a computer screen hundreds of miles away.

The Internet is like a giant jellyfish. You can't step on it. You can't go around it. You've got to get through it.

The Internet is the end of civilizations, cultures, interests and ethics.

I'm struck by the insidious, computer-driven tendency to take things out of the domain of muscular activity and put them into the domain of mental activity.

I have an almost religious zeal.. not for technology per se, but for the Internet which is for me, the nervous system of mother Earth, which I see as a living creature, linking up.

Customers are still setting the technology agenda. Not just you, our customers, but your customers as well. What more and more are telling you is what kind of services they need, and how and when they want those services delivered to them. And in fact, that is just the beginning.

It's very important to remember that it's your intellectual property; it's not your computer. And in the pursuit of protection of intellectual property, it's important not to defeat or undermine the security measures that people need to adopt in these days.

Should array indices start at 0 or 1? My compromise of 0.5 was rejected without, I thought, proper consideration.

C++ : Where friends have access to your private members.

The term reboot comes from the middle age (before computers). Horses who stopped in mid-stride required a boot to the rear to start again. Thus the term to rear-boot, later abbreviated into reboot.

For a long time it puzzled me how something so expensive, so leading edge, could be so useless. And then it occurred to me that a computer is a stupid machine with the ability to do incredibly smart things, while computer programmers are smart people with the ability to do incredibly stupid things. They are, in short, a perfect match.

Unix is simple. It just takes a genius to understand its simplicity.

In English every word can be verbed. Would that it were so in our programming languages.

Technology has the shelf life of a banana.

I used to think that cyberspace was fifty years away. What I thought was fifty years away, was only ten years away. And what I thought was ten years away... it was already here. I just wasn't aware of it yet.

The last good thing written in C++ was the Pachelbel Canon.

It has become appallingly obvious that our technology has exceeded our humanity.

The protection of personal information stored on our nation's computer systems is critical to public trust in those networks and to the health of our economy.

There are two ways to write error-free programs; only the third one works.

The best museums and museum exhibits about science or technology give you the feeling that, hey, this is interesting, but maybe I could do something here, too.

Encryption...is a powerful defensive weapon for free people. It offers a technical guarantee of privacy, regardless of who is running the government... It's hard to think of a more powerful, less dangerous tool for liberty.

It is easier to write an incorrect program than understand a correct one.

In a world without walls and fences, who needs Windows and Gates ?

If we had had the right technology back then, you would have seen Eva Braun on the Donahue show and Adolf Hitler on Meet the Press.