Technology Quotes

Science is supposedly the method by which we stand on the shoulders of those who came before us. In computer science, we all are standing on each others' feet.

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.

Technology... is a queer thing. It brings you great gifts with one hand, and it stabs you in the back with the other.

Re graphics: A picture is worth 10K words - but only those to describe the picture. Hardly any sets of 10K words can be adequately described with pictures.

Computer Science is embarrassed by the computer.

Every program has (at least) two purposes: the one for which it was written, and another for which it wasn't.

Technology is ruled by two types of people: those who manage what they do not understand, and those who understand what they do not manage.

As we go forward, I hope we're going to continue to use technology to make really big differences in how people live and work.

You know you're a geek when... You try to shoo a fly away from the monitor with your cursor. That just happened to me. It was scary.

Programming is like sex: one mistake and you’re providing support for a lifetime.

Over the centuries the Indians developed sign language for communicating phenomena of interest. Programmers from different tribes (FORTRAN, LISP, ALGOL, SNOBOL, etc.) could use one that doesn't require them to carry a blackboard on their ponies.

The fact that I have entered into IT-related business is proof that businesses have to evolve and keep with time. One has to re-invent continuously.

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If it keeps up, man will atrophy all his limbs but the push-button finger.

We will never become a truly paper-less society until the Palm Pilot folks come out with WipeMe 1.0.

Artificial Intelligence: the art of making computers that behave like the ones in movies.

If a listener nods his head when you're explaining your program, wake him up.

In English every word can be verbed. Would that it were so in our programming languages.

Once a new technology rolls over you, if you're not part of the steamroller, you're part of the road.

We’re gambling on our vision, and we would rather do that than make “me too” products. Let some other companies do that. For us, it’s always the next dream.

WWW? Nice toy, but what a waste of time.

Computers have lots of memory but no imagination.

It's not that we use technology, we live technology.

Modern technology Owes ecology An apology.

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.