Technology Quotes

INSERT DISK THREE' ? But I can only get two in the drive !

I had one simple idea about telling friends about arts and technology events. People in the community suggested everything else to us, and that's our theme. We're really run by the people who use the site. We just run the infrastructure, and help out with problems.

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.

Steve Jobs may have the apple, but Bill Gates has the entire orchard !

Within a computer natural language is unnatural.

When we understand knowledge-based systems, it will be as before -- except our fingertips will have been singed.

For systems, the analogue of a face-lift is to add to the control graph an edge that creates a cycle, not just an additional node.

Fools ignore complexity. Pragmatists suffer it. Some can avoid it. Geniuses remove it.

In programming, as in everything else, to be in error is to be reborn.

It would take a lot of time and effort (to repair the computers). And they can't run (programs and games) kids are interested in today. They're not even on the Internet. We wouldn't be offering them much of a carrot.

Where there is the necessary technical skill to move mountains, there is no need for the faith that moves mountains.

The modern computer hovers between the obsolescent and the nonexistent.

The newest computer can merely compound, at speed, the oldest problem in the relations between human beings, and in the end the communicator will be confronted with the old problem, of what to say and how to say it.

You will not even have enough time to go online and download all the patches to your computer before it is infected.

The first rule of any technology used in a business is that automation applied to an efficient operation will magnify the efficiency. The second is that automation applied to an inefficient operation will magnify the inefficiency.

We will create a civilization of the Mind in Cyberspace. May it be more humane and fair than the world your governments have made before.

Science and technology revolutionize our lives, but memory, tradition and myth frame our response.

You can try to control people, or you can try to have a system that represents reality. I find that knowing what's really happening is more important than trying to control people.

Imagine if every Thursday your shoes exploded if you tied them the usual way. This happens to us all the time with computers, and nobody thinks of complaining.

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.

The danger from computers is not that they will eventually get as smart as men, but that we will meanwhile agree to meet them halfway.

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

The best accelerator available for a Mac is one that causes it to go at 9.81 m/s2.

Once a new technology rolls over you, if you're not part of the steamroller, you're part of the road.

They've grown up with the computer, so they expect things to be faster, including cooking. They like baking by adding things to a mix. In recipes, they want fewer ingredients -- seven is ideal -- and they like step-by-step pictures that show them what to do.