Technology Quotes

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.

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

To iterate is human, to recurse divine.

Technology makes the world a new place.

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.

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

The use of a program to prove the 4-color theorem will not change mathematics - it merely demonstrates that the theorem, a challenge for a century, is probably not important to mathematics.

The Internet is becoming the town square for the global village of tomorrow.

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

First, solve the problem. Then, write the code.

In the long run every program becomes rococo - then rubble.

I believe that this notion of self-publishing, which is what Blogger and blogging are really about, is the next big wave of human communication. The last big wave was Web activity. Before that one it was e-mail. Instant messaging was an extension of e-mail, real-time e-mail.

Any given program, once deployed, is already obsolete.

I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination. Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world.

People say Microsoft paid $14M for using the Rolling Stones song 'Start me up' in their commercials. This is wrong. Microsoft payed $14M only for a part of the song. For instance, they didn't use the line 'You'll make a grown man cry'.

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.

The most amazing achievement of the computer software industry is its continuing cancellation of the steady and staggering gains made by the computer hardware industry.

Why do we want intelligent terminals when there are so many stupid users ?

The advance of technology is based on making it fit in so that you don't really even notice it, so it's part of everyday life.

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

It is not a language's weakness but its strengths that control the gradient of its change: Alas, a language never escapes its embryonic sac.

Technology is the drug of choice for most Americans. Source unknown Theory: when you have ideas. Ideology: when ideas have you.

First learn computer science and all the theory. Next develop a programming style. Then forget all that and just hack.

It is dangerously destabilizing to have half the world on the cutting edge of technology while the other half struggles on the bare edge of survival.

Software is under a constant tension. Being symbolic it is arbitrarily perfectible; but also it is arbitrarily changeable.