Technology Quotes

Technology without hatred can be a blessing. Technology with hatred is always a disaster.

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

The first rule of any technology used in a business is that automation applied to an efficient operation will magnify the efficiency. The second is that automation applied to an inefficient operation will magnify the inefficiency.

The advance of technology is based on making it fit in so that you don't really even notice it, so it's part of everyday life.

Style used to be an interaction between the human soul and tools that were limiting. In the digital era, it will have to come from the soul alone.

Everyone can be taught to sculpt: Michelangelo would have had to be taught not to. So it is with great programmers.

Computers, huh? I've heard it all boils down to just a bunch of ones and zeroes.... I don't know how that enables me to see naked women, but however it works, God bless you guys.

Apple really hasn't weighed in on the sub-$1,000 computer category. Their next step could be refreshing their current products and making pricing changes.

Imagine a school with children that can read or write, but with teachers who cannot, and you have a metaphor of the Information Age in which we live.

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

The technology at the leading edge changes so rapidly that you have to keep current after you get out of school. I think probably the most important thing is having good fundamentals.

That can be a good tax planning tool for small businesses - especially if you get a computer or something that you were planning to buy (in the coming year anyway).

Technology is a way of organizing the universe so that man doesn't have to experience it.

I think Microsoft named .Net so it wouldn’t show up in a Unix directory listing.

One would think that if you're anonymous, you'd do anything you want, but groups have their own sense of community and what we can do.

Computers are getting smarter all the time. Scientists tell us that soon they will be able to talk to us. (And by ‘they’, I mean ‘computers’. I doubt scientists will ever be able to talk to us.)

Every program has (at least) two purposes: the one for which it was written, and another for which it wasn't.

What is the difference between a Turing machine and the modern computer? It's the same as that between Hillary's ascent of Everest and the establishment of a Hilton hotel on its peak.

Our biggest demographic is the intelligent professional. They've got a computer on their desk, they've got a web browser and they check us out. We are many people's morning cup of coffee.

The most important and urgent problems of the technology of today are no longer the satisfactions of primary needs or of archetypal wishes, but the reparation of the evils and damages by technology of yesterday.

Why do we want intelligent terminals when there are so many stupid users ?

Computer Science is no more about computers than astronomy is about telescopes.

Science is supposedly the method by which we stand on the shoulders of those who came before us. In computer science, we all are standing on each others' feet.

Any non-trivial program contains at least one error.

Better to be a geek than an idiot.