Technology Quotes

It would appear that we have reached the limits of what it is possible to achieve with computer technology, although one should be careful with such statements, as they tend to sound pretty silly in 5 years.

If computers had invented humans as part of a BI program (biological intelligence), humans would have been tossed aside as barely having achieved perfect game play at Tic-Tac-Toe.

We will never become a truly paper-less society until the Palm Pilot folks come out with WipeMe 1.0.

I had one simple idea about telling friends about arts and technology events. People in the community suggested everything else to us, and that's our theme. We're really run by the people who use the site. We just run the infrastructure, and help out with problems.

Vista is the the George W Bush of the technology industry.

The issues involved are sufficiently important that courses are now moving out of the philosophy departments and into mainstream computer science. And they affect everyone. Many of the students attracted to these courses are not technology majors, and many of the topics we discuss relate to ethical challenges that transcend the computer world.

Americans have the right to have their medical decisions made by them and their doctors, and not by those bureaucrats sitting behind a computer screen hundreds of miles away.

Orchestras only need to be sworn at, and a German is consequently at an advantage with them, as English profanity, except in America, has not gone beyond a limited technology of perdition.

Technology is a way of organizing the universe so that man doesn't have to experience it.

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

I think that it's always possible to have a great company if you have great ideas. I will say that since the web has become more commercialized, it also takes some good financial resources to build a great business, but as I always say, you have to have the idea first.

Within a computer natural language is unnatural.

Computers will never replace good old-fashioned human stupidity.

If McDonalds were run like a software company, one out of every hundred Big Macs would give you food poisoning, and the response would be, ‘We’re sorry, here’s a coupon for two more.

We're changing the world with technology.

SUPERCOMPUTER: what it sounded like before you bought it.

Computers have lots of memory but no imagination.

If we believe in data structures, we must believe in independent (hence simultaneous) processing. For why else would we collect items within a structure? Why do we tolerate languages that give us the one without the other?

What boots up must come down.

A distributed system is one in which the failure of a computer you didn't even know existed can render your own computer unusable.

I’ve noticed lately that the paranoid fear of computers becoming intelligent and taking over the world has almost entirely disappeared from the common culture. Near as I can tell, this coincides with the release of MS-DOS.

Style used to be an interaction between the human soul and tools that were limiting. In the digital era, it will have to come from the soul alone.

I don't want to be left behind. In fact, I want to be here before the action starts.

Kids today have so many advantages I never had. There's no telling what I could've accomplished with a home computer and a handgun.

Some programming languages manage to absorb change, but withstand progress.