Technology Quotes

Saying that most of the computer was filled with personal images is simply not accurate.

I think there is irony in the fact that the computer is both their chief venue of communication and propaganda and also the mother of all their fears.

What does it say about our culture that personality is now considered a technology, a tool of the trade, not only in politics but in business and the professions? Has everyone been forced to become an actor? In sixteenth century England, actors were.

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.

Adapting old programs to fit new machines usually means adapting new machines to behave like old ones.

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

The Internet is not just one thing, it's a collection of things - of numerous communications networks that all speak the same digital language.

Technology has the shelf life of a banana.

Get into a rut early: Do the same process the same way. Accumulate idioms. Standardize. The only difference(!) between Shakespeare and you was the size of his idiom list - not the size of his vocabulary.

If google made $1 everytime someone used them to find an answer to a tech support question, they would own microsoft.

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.

If your computer speaks English, it was probably made in Japan.

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

Computers are like bikinis. They save people a lot of guesswork.

I'm a great believer in new technology and I think new technology is very scary for newspaper companies.

There is some confusion because we only recently began our marketing. We're in an era were people need to think about business processes and applications horizontally...We need to think of the enterprise not as an island of stand-alone technology.

We hope that the Internet becomes even more affordable and more ubiquitous over time, and our mission at Yahoo! is to continue to keep our services available AND useful on all these platforms.

Users truly don’t know what they want in a program until they use it.

The computer reminds one of Lon Chaney -- it is the machine of a thousand faces.

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

I remember the difficulty we had in the beginning replacing magnetic cores in memories and eventually we had both cost and performance advantages. But it wasn't at all clear in the beginning.

The city’s central computer told you? R2D2, you know better than to trust a strange computer!

I still have my laptop but I haven't used it. I'm a paper man, not electronic.

Never trust a computer you can’t throw out a window.

Moore's Law - The number of transistors and resistors on a chip doubles every 24 months