Technology Quotes

The Internet is a great way to get on the net.

If you don't double-click me, I can't do anything.

It is questionable if all the mechanical inventions yet made have lightened the day's toil of any human being.

If Gore invented the Internet, I invented spell-check.

Spending an evening on the World Wide Web is much like sitting down to a dinner of Cheetos, two hours later your fingers are yellow and you're no longer hungry, but you haven't been nourished.

If two people write exactly the same program, each should be put into microcode and then they certainly won't be the same.

The best computer is a man, and it's the only one that can be mass-produced by unskilled labor.

First learn computer science and all the theory. Next develop a programming style. Then forget all that and just hack.

I believe that this notion of self-publishing, which is what Blogger and blogging are really about, is the next big wave of human communication. The last big wave was Web activity. Before that one it was e-mail. Instant messaging was an extension of e-mail, real-time e-mail.

Whereas knights of old wore armor of plate, the modern knights of the air wear the invisible but magic armor of confidence in technology.

The science of today is the technology of tomorrow.

Science is not marginal. Like art, it is a universal possession of humanity, and scientific knowledge has become a vital part of our species' repertory. It comprises what we know of the material world with reasonable certainty. . . . Thanks to science and technology, access to factual information of all kinds is rising exponentially.

A programmer is a person who passes as an exacting expert on the basis of being able to turn out, after innumerable punching, an infinite series of incomprehensive answers calculated with micrometric precisions from vague assumptions based on debatable figures taken from inconclusive documents and carried out on instruments of problematical accuracy by persons of dubious reliability and questionable mentality for the avowed purpose of annoying and confounding a hopelessly defenseless department that was unfortunate enough to ask for the information in the first place.

America's technology has turned in upon itself; its corporate form makes it the servant of profits, not the servant of human needs.

First words on the first telephone - "Mr. Watson -- come here -- I want to see you."

Anyone who has lost track of time when using a computer knows the propensity to dream, the urge to make dreams come true and the tendency to miss lunch.

Not everything that can be counted counts, and not everything that counts can be counted.

Though the Chinese should adore APL, it's FORTRAN they put their money on.

Technology is always evolving, and companies.. not just search companies.. can't be afraid to take advantage of change.

My software never has bugs. It just develops random features.

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

There is only one satisfying way to boot a computer.

Program complexity grows until it exceeds the capabilities of the programmer who must maintain it.

Security is, I would say, our top priority because for all the exciting things you will be able to do with computers.. organizing your lives, staying in touch with people, being creative.. if we don't solve these security problems, then people will hold back. Businesses will be afraid to put their critical information on it because it will be exposed.

Back up my hard disk ? I can't find the reverse switch !