Technology Quotes

The best thing about a boolean is even if you are wrong, you are only off by a bit.

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.

You can try to control people, or you can try to have a system that represents reality. I find that knowing what's really happening is more important than trying to control people.

Re graphics: A picture is worth 10K words - but only those to describe the picture. Hardly any sets of 10K words can be adequately described with pictures.

In programming, as in everything else, to be in error is to be reborn.

The last good thing written in C++ was the Pachelbel Canon.

There are so many ways to heal. Arrogance may have a place in technology, but not in healing. I need to get out of my own way if I am to heal.

We're responsible for the creation of the PC industry. The whole idea of compatible machines and lots of software.. that's something we brought to computing. And so it's a responsibility for us to make sure that things like security don't get in the way of that dream.

Whenever two programmers meet to criticize their programs, both are silent.

The future masters of technology will have to be light-hearted and intelligent. The machine easily masters the grim and the dumb.

Crap... Someone knocked over my recycle bin... There's icons all over my desktop...

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

Getting Information off the Internet is like taking a drink from a fire hydrant.

It is questionable if all the mechanical inventions yet made have lightened the day's toil of any human being.

Within a computer natural language is unnatural.

Like punning, programming is a play on words.

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

Technology is just a tool. In terms of getting the kids working together and motivating them, the teacher is the most important.

It's not that we use technology, we live technology.

There is so much media now with the Internet and people, and so easy and so cheap to start a newspaper or start a magazine, there’s just millions of voices and people want to be heard.

Treat your password like your toothbrush. Don't let anybody else use it, and get a new one every six months.

Too few people in computer science are aware of some of the informational challenges in biology and their implications for the world. We can store an incredible amount of data very cheaply.

Any teacher that can be replaced by a computer, deserves to be.

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.

Think of all the psychic energy expended in seeking a fundamental distinction between "algorithm" and "program".