Technology Quotes

The great thing about a computer notebook is that no matter how much you stuff into it, it doesn't get bigger or heavier.

Well, another market is being created now out of Internet technology.

The newest computer can merely compound, at speed, the oldest problem in the relations between human beings, and in the end the communicator will be confronted with the old problem, of what to say and how to say it.

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.

In a world without walls and fences, who needs Windows and Gates ?

Life would be so much easier if we only had the source code.

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.

C++ : Where friends have access to your private members.

NO, You cannot dial 911, I'm downloading my mail !!!

Technological progress has merely provided us with more efficient means for going backwards.

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.

We've arranged a civilization in which most crucial elements profoundly depend on science and technology.

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

The only truly secure computer is one buried in concrete, with the power turned off and the network cable cut.

The medium is the message. This is merely to say that the personal and social consequences of any medium / that is, of any extension of ourselves / result from the new scale that is introduced into our affairs by each extension of ourselves, or by any new technology.

It is not about bits, bytes and protocols, but profits, losses and margins.

When you’re young, you look at television and think, there’s a conspiracy. The networks have conspired to dumb us down. But when you get a little older, you realize that’s not true. The networks are in business to give people exactly what they want. That’s a far more depressing thought. Conspiracy is optimistic! You can shoot the bastards! We can have a revolution! But the networks are really in business to give people what they want. It’s the truth.

It is practically impossible to teach good programming style to students that have had prior exposure to BASIC. As potential programmers, they are mentally mutilated beyond hope of regeneration.

There is no programming language–no matter how structured–that will prevent programmers from making bad programs.

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

The modern computer hovers between the obsolescent and the nonexistent.

Writing code has a place in the human hierarchy worth somewhere above grave robbing and beneath managing.

It is easier to write an incorrect program than understand a correct one.

The medium, or process, of our time - electric technology is reshaping and restructuring patterns of social interdependence and every aspect of our personal life. It is forcing us to reconsider and re-evaluate practically every thought, every action.

As technology advances, it reverses the characteristics of every situation again and again. The age of automation is going to be the age of "do it yourself".