Technology Quotes

If future generations are to remember us more with gratitude than sorrow, we must achieve more than just the miracles of technology. We must also leave them a glimpse of the world as it was created, not just as it looked when we got through with it.

To iterate is human, to recurse divine.

This is not a phone business. This is the smallest video camera, it's the smallest computer, smallest TV.

Debugging is twice as hard as writing the code in the first place. Therefore, if you write the code as cleverly as possible, you are–by definition–not smart enough to debug it.

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

As we go forward, I hope we're going to continue to use technology to make really big differences in how people live and work.

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

We're making a major move of the Internet, and runway. Polo.com is a natural extension of both polo.com and our collection business.

Technology does not drive change -- it enables change.

You can define advertising as the science of creating and placing media that interrupts the consumer and then gets him or her to take some action.

The best programmers are not marginally better than merely good ones. They are an order-of-magnitude better, measured by whatever standard: conceptual creativity, speed, ingenuity of design, or problem-solving ability.

Western society has accepted as unquestionable a technological imperative that is quite as arbitrary as the most primitive taboo: not merely the duty to foster invention and constantly to create technological novelties, but equally the duty to surrender to these novelties unconditionally, just because they are offered, without respect to their human consequences.

To go forward, you must backup.

Good programmers use their brains, but good guidelines save us having to think out every case.

Software is like sex: It’s better when it’s free.

Symmetry is a complexity-reducing concept (co-routines include subroutines); seek it everywhere.

I think computer viruses should count as life. I think it says something about human nature that the only form of life we have created so far is purely destructive. We've created life in our own image.

The only constructive theory connecting neuroscience and psychology will arise from the study of software.

I find sitting at a specially equipped desk in front of some pretty ugly plastics and staring at a little window is a very unnatural event.

Within a computer natural language is unnatural.

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

If the human race wants to go to hell in a basket, technology can help it get there by jet.

If Unix is the face of the future I want to go back to quill pens.

Computer science education cannot make anybody an expert programmer any more than studying brushes and pigment can make somebody an expert painter.

I can't uninstall it, there seems to be some kind of 'Uninstall Shield'.