Technology Quotes

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

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

If you don't want to be replaced by a computer, don't act like one.

In a 5 year period we get one superb programming language. Only we can't control when the 5 year period will be.

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

I get mail, therefore I am.

If the automobile had followed the same development cycle as the computer, a Rolls-Royce would today cost $100, get a million miles per gallon, and explode once a year, killing everyone inside.

Don’t worry if it doesn’t work right. If everything did, you’d be out of a job.

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.

Most of you are familiar with the virtues of a programmer. There are three, of course: laziness, impatience, and hubris.

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.

Because of its vitality, the computing field is always in desperate need of new cliches: Banality soothes our nerves.

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

We have yet to see the full impact of the open, global marketplace. By 1997 all raw materials and technology will be available everywhere in the world. The only differences between countries and markets will be skill levels, education, and the level of empowerment of the workplace.

A friend called me up the other day and talked about investing in a dot-com that sells lobsters. Internet lobsters. Where will this end? The next day he sent me a huge package of lobsters on ice. How low can you stoop?

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.

The only constructive theory connecting neuroscience and psychology will arise from the study of software.

There is only one satisfying way to boot a computer.

The purpose of medicine is to prevent significant disease, to decrease pain and to postpone death... Technology has to support these goals-if not, it may even be counterproductive.

Well Microsoft really does develop some really interesting technology.

Prolonged contact with the computer turns mathematicians into clerks and vice versa.

A lot of companies have chosen to downsize, and maybe that was the right thing for them. We chose a different path. Our belief was that if we kept putting great products in front of customers, they would continue to open their wallets.

It is the framework which changes with each new technology and not just the picture within the frame.

Encryption...is a powerful defensive weapon for free people. It offers a technical guarantee of privacy, regardless of who is running the government... It's hard to think of a more powerful, less dangerous tool for liberty.

I just bought a Mac to help me design the next Cray.