Technology Quotes

A computer makes it possible to do, in half an hour, tasks which were completely unnecessary to do before.

Steve Jobs may have the apple, but Bill Gates has the entire orchard !

When music technology takes the place of musicianship, it's time to pull the plug.

Technology is ruled by two types of people: those who manage what they do not understand, and those who understand what they do not manage.

The Linux philosophy is "Laugh in the face of danger". Oops. Wrong One. "Do it yourself". Yes, that's it.

If it keeps up, man will atrophy all his limbs but the push-button finger.

We're seeing how the videos translate to the live shows and how the technology is really reaching kids.

Like punning, programming is a play on words.

There’s an old story about the person who wished his computer were as easy to use as his telephone. That wish has come true, since I no longer know how to use my telephone.

It would appear that we have reached the limits of what it is possible to achieve with computer technology, although one should be careful with such statements, as they tend to sound pretty silly in 5 years.

Results eventually reach a point at which a finer mesh no longer yields an appreciable difference. This type of convergence study helps generate accurate solutions with meshes that are sufficiently dense and yet not overly demanding of computer resources.

I have gotten everything from a one-page letter written in pencil to a 50-page computer generated masterpiece.

Symmetry is a complexity-reducing concept (co-routines include subroutines); seek it everywhere.

Saying your OS is the best in the world 'cause more people use it is like saying McDonalds makes the best food in the world.

The insanity of the collective egoic mind, amplified by science and technology, is rapidly taking our species to the brink of disaster. Evolve or die: that is our only choice now.

The best museums and museum exhibits about science or technology give you the feeling that, hey, this is interesting, but maybe I could do something here, too.

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

There are broken toilets left there, old computers and miscellaneous garbage. They are totally unsupervised. The recycling company is good, but when people want to dump trash, they dump trash.

Writing code has a place in the human hierarchy worth somewhere above grave robbing and beneath managing.

We kid ourselves if we think that the ratio of procedure to data in an active data-base system can be made arbitrarily small or even kept small.

There are three kinds of death in this world. There's heart death, there's brain death, and there's being off the network.

In a world without walls and fences, who needs Windows and Gates ?

The Net interprets censorship as damage and routes around it.

In C++ it’s harder to shoot yourself in the foot, but when you do, you blow off your whole leg.

Complexity kills. It sucks the life out of developers, it makes products difficult to plan, build and test, it introduces security challenges, and it causes end-user and administrator frustration.