Technology Quotes

In computing, turning the obvious into the useful is a living definition of the word "frustration".

Grove giveth and Gates taketh away.

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

It would take a lot of time and effort (to repair the computers). And they can't run (programs and games) kids are interested in today. They're not even on the Internet. We wouldn't be offering them much of a carrot.

We have yet to see the full impact of the open, global marketplace. By 1997 all raw materials and technology will be available everywhere in the world. The only differences between countries and markets will be skill levels, education, and the level of empowerment of the workplace.

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

I have an almost religious zeal.. not for technology per se, but for the Internet which is for me, the nervous system of mother Earth, which I see as a living creature, linking up.

Not even computers will replace committees, because committees buy computers.

Computers, huh? I've heard it all boils down to just a bunch of ones and zeroes.... I don't know how that enables me to see naked women, but however it works, God bless you guys.

I just bought a Mac to help me design the next Cray.

If the automobile had followed the same development cycle as the computer, a Rolls-Royce would today cost $100, get a million miles per gallon, and explode once a year, killing everyone inside.

Programmers are in a race with the Universe to create bigger and better idiot-proof programs, while the Universe is trying to create bigger and better idiots. So far the Universe is winning.

If you give someone a program, you will frustrate them for a day; if you teach them how to program, you will frustrate them for a lifetime.

They have computers, and they may have other weapons of mass destruction.

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Computers are like Old Testament gods; lots of rules and no mercy.

Within a computer natural language is unnatural.

After a day spent staring at a computer monitor, think of (a) book as a kind of screen saver for your brain.

The more I C, the less I see.

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

If McDonalds were run like a software company, one out of every hundred Big Macs would give you food poisoning, and the response would be, ‘We’re sorry, here’s a coupon for two more.

Windows NT crashed. I am the Blue Screen of Death. No one hears your screams.

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

This is something we're very committed to, it's something that I think people are underestimating right now as they've seen some of the dot-com promises not come through. I think they're missing the fact that the basic technology is moving forward, the new platforms are here and this vision of the digital decade will be a reality.

I had one simple idea about telling friends about arts and technology events. People in the community suggested everything else to us, and that's our theme. We're really run by the people who use the site. We just run the infrastructure, and help out with problems.