Technology Quotes

Technological progress is like an axe in the hands of a pathological criminal.

If you have any trouble sounding condescending, find a Unix user to show you how it's done.

Systems have sub-systems and sub-systems have sub- systems and so on ad infinitum - which is why we're always starting over.

Computer : a million morons working at the speed of light.

Software expands to consume all available resources.

Any given program, once deployed, is already obsolete.

I think computer viruses should count as life. I think it says something about human nature that the only form of life we have created so far is purely destructive. We've created life in our own image.

Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.

Hacking is like sex. You get in, you get out, and hope that you didn't leave something that can be traced back to you.

Never let a computer know you're in a hurry.

Calculations which required a $20 million machine eight years ago can be done on a Mac cluster costing about $11,000.

I see no progress in this industry. These clocks are no faster than the ones they made a hundred years ago.

It was a pivotal moment in the history of computers and the history of advertising.

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

Bill Gates is a very rich man today... and do you want to know why? The answer is one word: versions.

Today's meters are little computers.

Whenever two programmers meet to criticize their programs, both are silent.

There was a time when nails were high-tech. There was a time when people had to be told how to use a telephone. Technology is just a tool. People use tools to improve their lives.

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.

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

The attention span of a computer is only as long as its electrical cord.

My computer must be broken: whenever I ask a wrong question, it gives a wrong answer.

Crap... Someone knocked over my recycle bin... There's icons all over my desktop...

The effort required to correct an error increases exponentially with time.

Science and technology revolutionize our lives, but memory, tradition and myth frame our response.