Technology Quotes

Upwards of two hundred species.. mostly of the large, slow-breeding variety.. are becoming extinct here every day because more and more of the earth's carrying capacity is systematically being converted into human carrying capacity. These species are being burnt out, starved out, and squeezed out of existence.. thanks to technologies that most people, I'm afraid, think of as technologies of peace. I hope it will not be too long before the technologies that support our population explosion begin to be perceived as no less hazardous to the future of life on this planet than the endless production of radioactive wastes.

The cybernetic exchange between man, computer and algorithm is like a game of musical chairs: The frantic search for balance always leaves one of the three standing ill at ease.

Like car accidents, most hardware problems are due to driver error.

Daddy, what does FORMATTING DRIVE C mean?

Everyone has a right to a university degree in America, even if it's in Hamburger Technology.

One machine can do the work of fifty ordinary men. No machine can do the work of one extraordinary man.

In software systems, it is often the early bird that makes the worm.

I completely love playing and designing games and always will. I am so into games that I listen to game music all day. That may sound strange, but you can guarantee I'm a hardcore gamer and would never let you down by designing a crappy title.

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

There's a whole kind of hip element to it -- now I need this. Right smack in the middle of the 21st century, sophistication is marrying itself to a very old-fashioned notion of a table where you play games, long before television, video games and home computers. The deck of cards now has become cool again.

To better understand why you need a personal computer, let's take a look at the pathetic mess you call your life.

When we first started, we would message all the time, ... He would log on, and mostly we would just message back and forth at the beginning of the relationship. Now, we use the computer, phones, letters, airlines - everything.

It is not the computer's fault that Maxwell's equations are not adequate to design the electric motor.

Only ten percent of the code in any given program will ever execute.

The ultimate search engine would basically understand everything in the world, and it would always give you the right thing. And we're a long, long ways from that.

Getting Information off the Internet is like taking a drink from a fire hydrant.

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

Well Microsoft really does develop some really interesting technology.

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.

It is easier to change the specification to fit the program than vice versa.

There never was a chip, it is said, that Bill Gates couldn't slow down with a new batch of features.

Do you realize if it weren't for Edison we'd be watching TV by candlelight?

Things should be made as simple as possible, but not any simpler.

The probability of a flawless demo is inversely proportional to the number of people watching, raised to the power of the amount of money involved.

America's technology has turned in upon itself; its corporate form makes it the servant of profits, not the servant of human needs.