Technology Quotes

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

There is so much media now with the Internet and people, and so easy and so cheap to start a newspaper or start a magazine, there’s just millions of voices and people want to be heard.

Renewable energy is proven technology, the price is dropping, the rest of the world is going that way, that's where our investment should be going as well.

If I had taken a proprietary control of the Web, then it would never have taken off. People only committed their time to it because they knew it was open, shared: that they could help decide what would happen to it next.. and I wouldn't be raking off 10%!

You can either have software quality or you can have pointer arithmetic, but you cannot have both at the same time.

I’ve finally learned what ‘upward compatible’ means. It means we get to keep all our old mistakes.

After growing wildly for years, the field of computing appears to be reaching its infancy.

I'm not anti-social; I'm just not user friendly.

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.

A year spent in artificial intelligence is enough to make one believe in God.

Make no mistake about it: Computers process numbers - not symbols. We measure our understanding (and control) by the extent to which we can arithmetize an activity.

When we understand knowledge-based systems, it will be as before -- except our fingertips will have been singed.

Microsoft is now talking about the digital nervous system... I guess I would be nervous if my system was built on their technology too.

The future masters of technology will have to be light-hearted and intelligent. The machine easily masters the grim and the dumb.

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

We're changing the world with technology.

The perfect computer has been developed. You just feed in your problems and they never come out again.

We are Microsoft. Resistance Is Futile. You Will Be Assimilated.

A LISP programmer knows the value of everything, but the cost of nothing.

The idea is that instead of going to an online retail site ... and buying a physical CD and having it shipped to you, you actually can buy the song and download the song to your computer hard drive.

A program is a spell cast over a computer, turning input into error messages.

Early on, when software was developed by computer scientists, just people working with computers, people passed around software because that was how you got computers to do things.

One good reason why computers can do more work than people is that they never have to stop and answer the phone.

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

Many people see technology as the problem behind the so-called digital divide. Others see it as the solution. Technology is neither. It must operate in conjunction with business, economic, political and social system.