Technology Quotes

Style used to be an interaction between the human soul and tools that were limiting. In the digital era, it will have to come from the soul alone.

I hope that the internet will get to become ubiquitous and affordable, and if that's achieved, I think it'll be a big part of people's lives - for the better.

The US Nuclear Security Administration runs the Blue Gene supercomputer. It is supposed to be the top super computer in the world ? and it runs on GNU Linux. Of the top 10 super computers in the world, seven run on GNU Linux. From a security point of view, there is a case to be made.

Food for thought: A fully-protected-and-updated Windows box cannot, by definition, have an uptime of more than 30 days.

The march of science and technology does not imply growing intellectual complexity in the lives of most people. It often means the opposite.

The last good thing written in C++ was the Pachelbel Canon.

WinNT: All the headaches of Unix, but in a pretty, windowed environment.

In programming, as in everything else, to be in error is to be reborn.

If you don't double-click me, I can't do anything.

The computer is the ultimate polluter: its feces are indistinguish- able from the food it produces.

You can define advertising as the science of creating and placing media that interrupts the consumer and then gets him or her to take some action.

We've arranged a civilization in which most crucial elements profoundly depend on science and technology.

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.

Things should be made as simple as possible, but not any simpler.

The modern computer hovers between the obsolescent and the nonexistent.

You can measure a programmer's perspective by noting his attitude on the continuing vitality of FORTRAN.

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

Back up my hard drive? How do I put it in reverse?

COBOL programmers understand why women hate periods.

The probability of a flawless demo is inversely proportional to the number of people watching, raised to the power of the amount of money involved.

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 federal government is like a handicapped turtle trying to crawl around and keep up with the rabbit, which is technology.

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.

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

Saying that most of the computer was filled with personal images is simply not accurate.