Technology Quotes

Back up my hard disk ? I can't find the reverse switch !

Computation has made the tree flower.

Optimization hinders evolution.

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

Unix is simple. It just takes a genius to understand its simplicity.

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

The march of science and technology does not imply growing intellectual complexity in the lives of most people. It often means the opposite.

Apple really hasn't weighed in on the sub-$1,000 computer category. Their next step could be refreshing their current products and making pricing changes.

A great lathe operator commands several times the wage of an average lathe operator, but a great writer of software code is worth 10,000 times the price of an average software writer.

Whenever two programmers meet to criticize their programs, both are silent.

I hope that the internet will get to become ubiquitous and affordable, and if that's achieved, I think it'll be a big part of people's lives - for the better.

I like my job because it involves learning. I like being around smart people who are trying to figure out new things. I like the fact that if people really try they can figure out how to invent things that actually have an impact.

Make no mistake about it: Computers process numbers - not symbols. We measure our understanding (and control) by the extent to which we can arithmetize an activity.

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.

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

If you tried to read every document on the web, then for each day's effort you would be a year further behind in your goal.

Unfortunately this was an older file that this person hadn't opened in quite a while. The person who uses this computer had missed it.

When we first started, we would message all the time, ... He would log on, and mostly we would just message back and forth at the beginning of the relationship. Now, we use the computer, phones, letters, airlines - everything.

The computer programmer is a creator of universes for which he alone is responsible. Universes of virtually unlimited complexity can be created in the form of computer programs.

Saying your OS is the best in the world 'cause more people use it is like saying McDonalds makes the best food in the world.

Technology favors horrible people.

Technology makes it possible for people to gain control over everything, except over technology.

The term reboot comes from the middle age (before computers). Horses who stopped in mid-stride required a boot to the rear to start again. Thus the term to rear-boot, later abbreviated into reboot.

Technology is just a tool. In terms of getting the kids working together and motivating them, the teacher is the most important.

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