Technology Quotes

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.

Bill Gates is a very rich man today... and do you want to know why? The answer is one word: versions.

Writing code has a place in the human hierarchy worth somewhere above grave robbing and beneath managing.

Capitalist production, therefore, develops technology, and the combining together of various processes into a social whole, only by sapping the original sources of all wealth - the soil and the labourer.

When we first started, we would message all the time, ... He would log on, and mostly we would just message back and forth at the beginning of the relationship. Now, we use the computer, phones, letters, airlines - everything.

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

If two people write exactly the same program, each should be put into microcode and then they certainly won't be the same.

Any fool can use a computer. Many do.

The best book on programming for the layman is "Alice in Wonderland"; but that's because it's the best book on anything for the layman.

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.

One day soon the Gillette company will announce the development of a razor that, thanks to a computer microchip, can actually travel ahead in time and shave beard hairs that don't even exist yet.

Though the Chinese should adore APL, it's FORTRAN they put their money on.

The best computer is a man, and it's the only one that can be mass-produced by unskilled labor.

If it keeps up, man will atrophy all his limbs but the push-button finger.

As network administrator I can take down the network with one keystroke. It's just like being a doctor but without getting gooky stuff on my paws.

A good system can't have a weak command language.

If you automate a mess, you get an automated mess.

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

The only problem with Microsoft is they just have no taste. They have absolutely no taste. And I don’t mean that in a small way, I mean that in a big way, in the sense that they don’t think of original ideas, and they don’t bring much culture into their products.

The new information technology—Internet and e-mail—have practically eliminated the physical costs of communications.

Technology is a gift of God. After the gift of life it is perhaps the greatest of God's gifts. It is the mother of civilizations, of arts and of sciences.

I think there is irony in the fact that the computer is both their chief venue of communication and propaganda and also the mother of all their fears.

We're seeing how the videos translate to the live shows and how the technology is really reaching kids.

It is better to have 100 functions operate on one data structure than 10 functions on 10 data structures.

A programmer is a person who passes as an exacting expert on the basis of being able to turn out, after innumerable punching, an infinite series of incomprehensive answers calculated with micrometric precisions from vague assumptions based on debatable figures taken from inconclusive documents and carried out on instruments of problematical accuracy by persons of dubious reliability and questionable mentality for the avowed purpose of annoying and confounding a hopelessly defenseless department that was unfortunate enough to ask for the information in the first place.