Technology Quotes

Many people see technology as the problem behind the so-called digital divide. Others see it as the solution. Technology is neither. It must operate in conjunction with business, economic, political and social system.

What is the difference between a Turing machine and the modern computer? It's the same as that between Hillary's ascent of Everest and the establishment of a Hilton hotel on its peak.

One does not learn computing by using a hand calculator, but one can forget arithmetic.

To err is human, but to really foul things up requires a computer.

Windows is just DOS in drag.

If brute force doesn't solve your problems, then you aren't using enough.

Programming is an unnatural act.

You can try to control people, or you can try to have a system that represents reality. I find that knowing what's really happening is more important than trying to control people.

There's no set architecture in Linux. All roads lead to madness.

In view of all the deadly computer viruses that have been spreading lately, Weekend Update would like to remind you: when you link up to another computer, you're linking up to every computer that that computer has ever linked up to.

Unix is user-friendly. It's just very selective about who its friends are.

Computers are like Old Testament gods; lots of rules and no mercy.

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

It makes life difficult ... because law changes very slowly. We have judges who did not grow up with computers and so many do not understand the technology and issues it raises.

Considering the current sad state of our computer programs, software development is clearly still a black art, and cannot yet be called an engineering discipline.

It was never clear that it wouldn't just stop (the WWW). Any time during that exponential growth, it could have stalled. I think we were never very confident until 1993.

The greatest danger in modern technology isn't that machines will begin to think like people, but that people will begin to think like machines.

Bill Gates is so rich because he got his wish when he said: 'I wish I had a nickel for every time a PC reboots'.

Any given program, once deployed, is already obsolete.

We started putting together a "hotlist" of favorite sites from David and myself, and we called it "Jerry's Guide to the World Wide Web" Before we knew it, people from all over the world were using this database that we created.

Software expands to consume all available resources.

It is the user who should parameterize procedures, not their creators.

Technology favors horrible people.

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.

The last good thing written in C++ was the Pachelbel Canon.