Technology Quotes

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.

The number one benefit of information technology is that it empowers people to do what they want to do. It lets people be creative. It lets people be productive. It lets people learn things they didn't think they could learn before, and so in a sense it is all about potential.

Though the Chinese should adore APL, it's FORTRAN they put their money on.

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

Technology makes the world a new place.

Should array indices start at 0 or 1? My compromise of 0.5 was rejected without, I thought, proper consideration.

A program without a loop and a structured variable isn't worth writing.

It’s really hard to design products by focus groups. A lot of times, people don’t know what they want until you show it to them.

You will not even have enough time to go online and download all the patches to your computer before it is infected.

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

The computing field is always in need of new cliches.

The real problem is not whether machines think but whether men do.

Never before in history has innovation offered promise of so much to so many in so short a time.

The Internet is so big, so powerful and pointless that for some people it is a complete substitute for life.

MS-DOS, an OS originally designed for a microprocessor that modern kitchen appliances would sneer at.

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.

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

The production of too many useful things results in too many useless people.

The demand for digital textbooks has increased since its introduction to the marketplace. As students become more familiar with them and computers get faster, larger and more portable, this product will gain in popularity.

Every operating system out there is about equal… We all suck.

What does it say about our culture that personality is now considered a technology, a tool of the trade, not only in politics but in business and the professions? Has everyone been forced to become an actor? In sixteenth century England, actors were.

Structured Programming supports the law of the excluded muddle.

Calculations which required a $20 million machine eight years ago can be done on a Mac cluster costing about $11,000.

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

Documentation is like term insurance: It satisfies because almost no one who subscribes to it depends on its benefits.