Technology Quotes

A language that doesn't affect the way you think about programming, is not worth knowing.

Every program has (at least) two purposes: the one for which it was written, and another for which it wasn't.

Modern technology Owes ecology An apology.

For a list of all the ways technology has failed to improve the quality of life, please press three.

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.

Efforts to protect critical computer networks have unfortunately not kept pace with the march of technology.

Los Angeles County officials have asked that manufacturers, suppliers and contractors stop using the terms 'master' and 'slave' regarding computer hard drives, saying such terms are unacceptable and offensive. Additionally, the term 'e-mail' will now be called 'e-person letter', 'dumb terminals' will now be 'CPU-challenged monitors' and 'Unix' will be referred to as 'sexually dysfunctional operating system'. Obviously, 'fingering' is now banned entirely.

The Internet is so big, so powerful and pointless that for some people it is a complete substitute for life.

My computer must be broken: whenever I ask a wrong question, it gives a wrong answer.

One would think that if you're anonymous, you'd do anything you want, but groups have their own sense of community and what we can do.

In software, we rarely have meaningful requirements. Even if we do, the only measure of success that matters is whether our solution solves the customer’s shifting idea of what their problem is.

COBOL programmers understand why women hate periods.

The use of a program to prove the 4-color theorem will not change mathematics - it merely demonstrates that the theorem, a challenge for a century, is probably not important to mathematics.

We know by now that if we make technology the predestined force in our lives, man will walk to the measure of its demands. We know how leveling that influence can be, how easy it is to computerize man and make him a servile thing in a vast industrial complex. . . . This means we must subject the machine -- technology -- to control and cease despoiling the earth and filling people with goodies merely to make money.

If at first you don't succeed; call it version 1.0.

I want people to understand the amazing, positive way our software can make leisure time more enjoyable, and work and businesses more successful.

Ours is a world of nuclear giants and ethical infants. If we continue to develop our technology without wisdom or prudence, our servant may prove to be our executioner.

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.

Re graphics: A picture is worth 10K words - but only those to describe the picture. Hardly any sets of 10K words can be adequately described with pictures.

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.

A computer lets you make more mistakes faster than any invention in human history - with the possible exceptions of handguns and tequila.

We have the mini and the micro computer. In what semantic niche would the pico computer fall?

To go forward, you must backup.

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.

Technology is the drug of choice for most Americans. Source unknown Theory: when you have ideas. Ideology: when ideas have you.