Technology Quotes

If a listener nods his head when you're explaining your program, wake him up.

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'.

We have yet to see the full impact of the open, global marketplace. By 1997 all raw materials and technology will be available everywhere in the world. The only differences between countries and markets will be skill levels, education, and the level of empowerment of the workplace.

Every program is a part of some other program and rarely fits.

If we believe in data structures, we must believe in independent (hence simultaneous) processing. For why else would we collect items within a structure? Why do we tolerate languages that give us the one without the other?

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.

The only constructive theory connecting neuroscience and psychology will arise from the study of software.

Once you understand how to write a program get someone else to write it.

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

Beware of the Turing tar-pit in which everything is possible but nothing of interest is easy.

Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.

First and foremost, the Internet is unique since it is THE only interactive medium -- and that's important because from a content, service, and communications perspective, we web folks try to take advantage of that interactivity.

Americans have the right to have their medical decisions made by them and their doctors, and not by those bureaucrats sitting behind a computer screen hundreds of miles away.

If GM had kept up with technology like the computer industry has, we would all be driving $25 cars that got 1000 MPG.

The ultimate search engine would basically understand everything in the world, and it would always give you the right thing. And we're a long, long ways from that.

Technology: No Place for Wimps!

There's a lot that can be done for people who are using technology in a better way.

Sometimes I think the only universal in the computing field is the fetch-execute cycle.

Technology makes the world a new place.

Computers have lots of memory but no imagination.

If computers had invented humans as part of a BI program (biological intelligence), humans would have been tossed aside as barely having achieved perfect game play at Tic-Tac-Toe.

In 20 or 30 years, you'll be able to hold in your hand as much computing knowledge as exists now in the whole city, or even the whole world.

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.

So many good ideas are never heard from again once they embark in a voyage on the semantic gulf.

Programming is like sex: one mistake and you’re providing support for a lifetime.