Technology Quotes

They say if you play a Microsoft CD backwards, you hear satanic messages. Thats nothing, cause if you play it forwards, it installs Windows.

This is a highly reliable power source. Being a large credit card processor, doing $6 million an hour in transactions, our computers have to work.

Is it possible that software is not like anything else, that it is meant to be discarded: that the whole point is to see it as a soap bubble?

Simplicity does not precede complexity, but follows it.

The Web is like a dominatrix. Everywhere I turn, I see little buttons ordering me to Submit.

Computers will never replace good old-fashioned human stupidity.

Optimism is an occupational hazard of programming; feedback is the treatment.

They should never have entered him in that computer. It's just common sense? that's the bottom line. I don't think it should have gotten this far.

If you tried to read every document on the web, then for each day's effort you would be a year further behind in your goal.

Technology... is a queer thing. It brings you great gifts with one hand, and it stabs you in the back with the other.

Microsoft is not the answer. Microsoft is the question. NO is the answer.

Technology presumes there's just one right way to do things and there never is.

It was a pivotal moment in the history of computers and the history of advertising.

In all large corporations, there is a pervasive fear that someone, somewhere is having fun with a computer on company time. Networks help alleviate that fear.

Almost everybody today believes that nothing in economic history has ever moved as fast as, or had a greater impact than, the Information Revolution. But the Industrial Revolution moved at least as fast in the same time span, and had probably an equal impact if not a greater one.

Considering the flames and intolerance, shouldn't USENET be spelled ABUSENET?

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?

Users truly don’t know what they want in a program until they use it.

The Internet is not just one thing, it's a collection of things - of numerous communications networks that all speak the same digital language.

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

It is not about bits, bytes and protocols, but profits, losses and margins.

The medium is the message. This is merely to say that the personal and social consequences of any medium / that is, of any extension of ourselves / result from the new scale that is introduced into our affairs by each extension of ourselves, or by any new technology.

If McDonalds were run like a software company, one out of every hundred Big Macs would give you food poisoning, and the response would be, ‘We’re sorry, here’s a coupon for two more.

There used to be this country called the Soviet Union; it's not there anymore. Our technology was better than theirs.

The Internet has been the most fundamental change during my lifetime and for hundreds of years. Someone the other day said, "It's the biggest thing since Gutenberg," and then someone else said "No, it's the biggest thing since the invention of writing."