Technology Quotes

Over the centuries the Indians developed sign language for communicating phenomena of interest. Programmers from different tribes (FORTRAN, LISP, ALGOL, SNOBOL, etc.) could use one that doesn't require them to carry a blackboard on their ponies.

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

Debugging is twice as hard as writing the code in the first place. Therefore, if you write the code as cleverly as possible, you are–by definition–not smart enough to debug it.

In the long run every program becomes rococo - then rubble.

Do you realize if it weren't for Edison we'd be watching TV by candlelight?

If we had a reliable way to label our toys good and bad, it would be easy to regulate technology wisely. But we can rarely see far enough ahead to know which road leads to damnation. Whoever concerns himself with big technology, either to push it forward or to stop it, is gambling in human lives.

Efforts to protect critical computer networks have unfortunately not kept pace with the march of technology.

Anyone who spends their life on a computer is pretty unusual.

Often it is the means that justify the ends: Goals advance technique and technique survives even when goal structures crumble.

One can only display complex information in the mind. Like seeing, movement or flow or alteration of view is more important than the static picture, no matter how lovely.

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.

If Gore invented the Internet, I invented spell-check.

The Net interprets censorship as damage and routes around it.

Every day were saying, 'How can we keep this customer happy?' How can we get ahead in innovation by doing this, because if we don't, somebody else will.

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

If brute force doesn't solve your problems, then you aren't using enough.

The Internet is so big, so powerful and pointless that for some people it is a complete substitute for life.

A lot of companies have chosen to downsize, and maybe that was the right thing for them. We chose a different path. Our belief was that if we kept putting great products in front of customers, they would continue to open their wallets.

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

David and I and the rest of the Yahoos here really believe that the internet should remain as free as possible. At the same time we are a business and have fiscal responsibilities.

Bill Gates is so rich because he got his wish when he said: 'I wish I had a nickel for every time a PC reboots'.

I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination. Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world.

For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for Nature cannot be fooled.

Computers can now keep a man's every transgression recorded in a permanent memory bank, duplicating with complex programming and intricate wiring a feat his wife handles quite well without fuss or fanfare.

America's technology has turned in upon itself; its corporate form makes it the servant of profits, not the servant of human needs.