Technology Quotes

Technology is just a tool. In terms of getting the kids working together and motivating them, the teacher is the most important.

I believe that this notion of self-publishing, which is what Blogger and blogging are really about, is the next big wave of human communication. The last big wave was Web activity. Before that one it was e-mail. Instant messaging was an extension of e-mail, real-time e-mail.

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

Any given program, once deployed, is already obsolete.

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

In software, we rarely have meaningful requirements. Even if we do, the only measure of success that matters is whether our solution solves the customer’s shifting idea of what their problem is.

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.

The science of today is the technology of tomorrow.

It's a fact that more people watch television and get their information that way than read books. I find new technology and new ways of communication very exciting and would like to do more in this field.

It is the framework which changes with each new technology and not just the picture within the frame.

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

Inside every small program is a large program struggling to get out.

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

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.

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

Only ten percent of the code in any given program will ever execute.

Perhaps if we wrote programs from childhood on, as adults we'd be able to read them.

The new information technology—Internet and e-mail—have practically eliminated the physical costs of communications.

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

There is a chasm of carbon and silicon the software can't bridge.

The best thing about a boolean is even if you are wrong, you are only off by a bit.

All of the books in the world contain no more information than is broadcast as video in a single large American city in a single year. Not all bits have equal value.

An adequate bootstrap is a contradiction in terms.

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

Artificial Intelligence: the art of making computers that behave like the ones in movies.