Technology Quotes

As network administrator I can take down the network with one keystroke. It's just like being a doctor but without getting gooky stuff on my paws.

If we continue to develop our technology without wisdom or prudence, our servant may prove to be our executioner.

Some say Google is God. Others say Google is Satan. But if they think Google is too powerful, remember that with search engines unlike other companies, all it takes is a single click to go to another search engine.

Like punning, programming is a play on words.

You can try to control people, or you can try to have a system that represents reality. I find that knowing what's really happening is more important than trying to control people.

Daddy, what does FORMATTING DRIVE C mean?

Often it is the means that justify the ends: Goals advance technique and technique survives even when goal structures crumble.

The future masters of technology will have to be light-hearted and intelligent. The machine easily masters the grim and the dumb.

The best book on programming for the layman is "Alice in Wonderland"; but that's because it's the best book on anything for the layman.

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.

That’s the thing about people who think they hate computers. What they really hate is lousy programmers.

The lifeblood of our business is that R&D spend. There's nothing that flows through a pipe or down a wire or anything else. We have to continuously create new innovation that lets people do something they didn't think they could do the day before.

That can be a good tax planning tool for small businesses - especially if you get a computer or something that you were planning to buy (in the coming year anyway).

Over time, it's becoming more and more understood by people that we're acting in their interests. And that's a very, very powerful thing for our brand.

The more I C, the less I see.

Yesterday it worked Today it is not working Windows is like that

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

A carelessly planned project takes three times longer to complete than expected; a carefully planned project takes only twice as long.

Education makes machines which act like men and produces men who act like machines.

It's pretty incredible to look back 30 years to when Microsoft was starting and realize how work has been transformed. We're finally getting close to what I call the digital workstyle.

The telephone wire, as we know it, has become too slow and too small to handle Internet traffic. It took 75 years for telephones to be used by 50 million customers, but it took only four years for the Internet to reach that many users.

This is not a phone business. This is the smallest video camera, it's the smallest computer, smallest TV.

The best thing about a boolean is even if you are wrong, you are only off by a bit.

Two men were examining the output of the new computer in their department. After an hour or so of analyzing the data, one of them remarked: "Do you realize it would take 400 men at least 250 years to make a mistake this big ?

We know by now that if we make technology the predestined force in our lives, man will walk to the measure of its demands. We know how leveling that influence can be, how easy it is to computerize man and make him a servile thing in a vast industrial complex. . . . This means we must subject the machine -- technology -- to control and cease despoiling the earth and filling people with goodies merely to make money.