Technology Quotes

Our business is about technology, yes. But it's also about operations and customer relationships.

It is not the computer's fault that Maxwell's equations are not adequate to design the electric motor.

The purpose of medicine is to prevent significant disease, to decrease pain and to postpone death... Technology has to support these goals-if not, it may even be counterproductive.

The most important and urgent problems of the technology of today are no longer the satisfactions of primary needs or of archetypal wishes, but the reparation of the evils and damages by technology of yesterday.

The string is a stark data structure and everywhere it is passed there is much duplication of process. It is a perfect vehicle for hiding information.

Computers are useless. They can only give you answers.

Measuring programming progress by lines of code is like measuring aircraft building progress by weight.

Everybody who runs a Web site knows we're not assured of compatibility.

A good system can't have a weak command language.

If google made $1 everytime someone used them to find an answer to a tech support question, they would own microsoft.

Undetectable errors are infinite in variety, in contrast to detectable errors, which by definition are limited.

What the country needs are a few labor-making inventions.

Technology makes the world a new place.

Build a program that even a fool can use, and only a fool will want to use it.

Fools ignore complexity. Pragmatists suffer it. Some can avoid it. Geniuses remove it.

I think one of the big errors people are making right now is thinking that old-style businesses will be obsolete, when actually they will be an important part of this new civilization. Some retail groups are introducing e-commerce and think that the "bricks" are no longer useful. But they will continue to be important.

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.

Capitalist production, therefore, develops technology, and the combining together of various processes into a social whole, only by sapping the original sources of all wealth - the soil and the labourer.

The mass majority of computer users are conservative. They want to use the software they're used to using.

As technology advances, it reverses the characteristics of every situation again and again. The age of automation is going to be the age of "do it yourself".

Once you understand how to write a program get someone else to write it.

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

A computer is like an Old Testament god, with a lot of rules and no mercy.

We are very much believers that the web is an open environment, and we need to make sure that people can find all kinds of different stuff through Yahoo!, and not necessarily keeping people within Yahoo!

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.