Technology Quotes

The danger from computers is not that they will eventually get as smart as men, but that we will meanwhile agree to meet them halfway.

Our mission is to organize the world's information. Clearly, the more information we have when we do a search, the better it's going to work.

Paper is no longer a big part of my day. I get 90% of my news online, and when I go to a meeting and want to jot things down, I bring my Tablet PC. It's fully synchronized with my office machine so I have all the files I need.

In computing, invariants are ephemeral.

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.

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

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

The spoken word was the first technology by which man was able to let go of his environment in order to grasp it in a new way.

Technology makes the world a new place.

Orchestras only need to be sworn at, and a German is consequently at an advantage with them, as English profanity, except in America, has not gone beyond a limited technology of perdition.

Mac users swear by their computers. PC users swear at their computers.

It is the user who should parameterize procedures, not their creators.

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

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.

This is something we're very committed to, it's something that I think people are underestimating right now as they've seen some of the dot-com promises not come through. I think they're missing the fact that the basic technology is moving forward, the new platforms are here and this vision of the digital decade will be a reality.

MS-DOS isn't dead, it just smells that way.

In view of all the deadly computer viruses that have been spreading lately, Weekend Update would like to remind you: when you link up to another computer, you're linking up to every computer that that computer has ever linked up to.

Just about anyone can pass if they have a home computer and are a quick study.

Never before in history has innovation offered promise of so much to so many in so short a time.

All programmers are playwrights and all computers are lousy actors.

Yesterday it worked Today it is not working Windows is like that

That’s what’s cool about working with computers. They don’t argue, they remember everything, and they don’t drink all your beer.

Any fool can use a computer. Many do.

Buying the right computer and getting it to work properly is no more complicated than building a nuclear reactor from wristwatch parts in a darkened room using only your teeth.

Part of the inhumanity of the computer is that, once it is competently programmed and working smoothly, it is completely honest.