Technology Quotes

I'm not anti-social; I'm just not user friendly.

Software suppliers are trying to make their software packages more ‘user-friendly’… Their best approach so far has been to take all the old brochures and stamp the words ‘user-friendly’ on the cover.

If a program is useless, it will have to be documented.

Users /nm./: collective term for those who use computers. Users are divided into three types: novice, intermediate and expert. Novice Users: people who are afraid that simply pressing a key might break their computer. Intermediate Users: people who don't know how to fix their computer after they've just pressed a key that broke it. Expert Users: people who break other people's computers.

After growing wildly for years, the field of computing appears to be reaching its infancy.

INSERT DISK THREE' ? But I can only get two in the drive !

We always overestimate the change that will occur in the next two years and underestimate the change that will occur in the next ten. Don't let yourself be lulled into inaction.

Technology favors horrible people.

But they are useless. They can only give you answers.

The spoken word was the first technology by which man was able to let go of his environment in order to grasp it in a new way.

Come to think of it, there are already a million monkeys on a million typewriters, and Usenet is nothing like Shakespeare.

I also introduce skills like using a hula hoop or jumping rope. I think many kids this age need a break from the computer or video games to learn these very important physical skills.

Any significant boost in technology could just as easily be a rigged demo.

The Star Trek computer doesn't seem that interesting. They ask it random questions, it thinks for a while. I think we can do better than that.

The system of nature, of which man is a part, tends to be self-balancing, self-adjusting, self-cleansing. Not so with technology.

Today's meters are little computers.

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

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

Early on, when software was developed by computer scientists, just people working with computers, people passed around software because that was how you got computers to do things.

I have gotten everything from a one-page letter written in pencil to a 50-page computer generated masterpiece.

The goal of computation is the emulation of our synthetic abilities, not the understanding of our analytic ones.

As soon as we started programming, we found to our surprise that it wasn’t as easy to get programs right as we had thought. Debugging had to be discovered. I can remember the exact instant when I realized that a large part of my life from then on was going to be spent in finding mistakes in my own programs.

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.

Moore's Law - The number of transistors and resistors on a chip doubles every 24 months

One of the main causes of the fall of the Roman Empire was that–lacking zero–they had no way to indicate successful termination of their C programs.