Technology Quotes

An adequate bootstrap is a contradiction in terms.

Beware of the Turing tar-pit in which everything is possible but nothing of interest is easy.

Motto for a research laboratory: What we work on today, others will first think of tomorrow.

Treat your password like your toothbrush. Don't let anybody else use it, and get a new one every six months.

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.

In seeking the unattainable, simplicity only gets in the way.

They say if you play a Microsoft CD backwards, you hear satanic messages. Thats nothing, cause if you play it forwards, it installs Windows.

The ultimate search engine would basically understand everything in the world, and it would always give you the right thing. And we're a long, long ways from that.

A year spent in artificial intelligence is enough to make one believe in God.

WWW? Nice toy, but what a waste of time.

The great thing about Object Oriented code is that it can make small, simple problems look like large, complex ones.

The eleventh commandment was "Thou Shalt Compute" or "Thou Shalt Not Compute" - I forget which.

I completely love playing and designing games and always will. I am so into games that I listen to game music all day. That may sound strange, but you can guarantee I'm a hardcore gamer and would never let you down by designing a crappy title.

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.

High technology has done us one great service: It has retaught us the delight of performing simple and primordial tasks - chopping wood, building a fire, drawing water from a spring.

Our biggest demographic is the intelligent professional. They've got a computer on their desk, they've got a web browser and they check us out. We are many people's morning cup of coffee.

Technology without hatred can be a blessing. Technology with hatred is always a disaster.

Structured Programming supports the law of the excluded muddle.

The research rat of the future allows experimentation without manipulation of the real world. This is the cutting edge of modeling technology.

The factory of the future will have only two employees, a man and a dog. The man will be there to feed the dog. The dog will be there to keep the man from touching the equipment.

Giving up on assembly language was the apple in our Garden of Eden: Languages whose use squanders machine cycles are sinful. The LISP machine now permits LISP programmers to abandon bra and fig-leaf.

I'm not anti-social; I'm just not user friendly.

Computers make it easier to do a lot of things, but most of the things they make it easier to do don't need to be done.

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

Paper is no longer a big part of my day. I get 90% of my news online, and when I go to a meeting and want to jot things down, I bring my Tablet PC. It's fully synchronized with my office machine so I have all the files I need.