Technology Quotes

I think if you do something and it turns out pretty good, then you should go do something else wonderful, not dwell on it for too long. Just figure out what’s next.

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

The technologies which have had the most profound effects on human life are usually simple.

All programmers are playwrights and all computers are lousy actors.

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.

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

Of course, the best way to get accurate information on Usenet is to post something wrong and wait for corrections.

If you have any trouble sounding condescending, find a Unix user to show you how it's done.

The only business that is ever threatened by improved technologies are those that need to be left behind.

I think it's fair to say that personal computers have become the most empowering tool we've ever created. They're tools of communication, they're tools of creativity, and they can be shaped by their user.

A great lathe operator commands several times the wage of an average lathe operator, but a great writer of software code is worth 10,000 times the price of an average software writer.

If Gore invented the Internet, I invented spell-check.

I think Microsoft named .Net so it wouldn’t show up in a Unix directory listing.

Program complexity grows until it exceeds the capabilities of the programmer who must maintain it.

There are so many ways to heal. Arrogance may have a place in technology, but not in healing. I need to get out of my own way if I am to heal.

They've grown up with the computer, so they expect things to be faster, including cooking. They like baking by adding things to a mix. In recipes, they want fewer ingredients -- seven is ideal -- and they like step-by-step pictures that show them what to do.

Technology innovation is starting to explode and having open-source material out there really helps this explosion. You get students and researchers involved and you get people coming through and building start ups based on open source products.

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

First and foremost, the Internet is unique since it is THE only interactive medium -- and that's important because from a content, service, and communications perspective, we web folks try to take advantage of that interactivity.

Unfortunately this was an older file that this person hadn't opened in quite a while. The person who uses this computer had missed it.

Unix was not designed to stop you from doing stupid things, because that would also stop you from doing clever things.

Humanity is acquiring all the right technology for all the wrong reasons.

E-mail — When it absolutely, positively has to get lost at the speed of light.

Imagination is more important than knowledge. For knowledge is limited to all we now know and understand, while imagination embraces the entire world, and all there ever will be to know and understand.