Technology Quotes

I think computer viruses should count as life. I think it says something about human nature that the only form of life we have created so far is purely destructive. We've created life in our own image.

There is only one satisfying way to boot a computer.

Some things Man was never meant to know. For everything else, there's Google.

It’s really hard to design products by focus groups. A lot of times, people don’t know what they want until you show it to them.

David and I and the rest of the Yahoos here really believe that the internet should remain as free as possible. At the same time we are a business and have fiscal responsibilities.

When we understand knowledge-based systems, it will be as before -- except our fingertips will have been singed.

The computer is a moron.

Computer language design is just like a stroll in the park. Jurassic Park, that is.

What the country needs are a few labor-making inventions.

Back up my hard disk ? I can't find the reverse switch !

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

COBOL programmers understand why women hate periods.

From then on, when anything went wrong with a computer, we said it had bugs in it.

Ours is a world of nuclear giants and ethical infants. If we continue to develop our technology without wisdom or prudence, our servant may prove to be our executioner.

There's a great desire to be computer-savvy among those 50 and older. They're really hungry for it.

One machine can do the work of fifty ordinary men. No machine can do the work of one extraordinary man.

Don’t worry if it doesn’t work right. If everything did, you’d be out of a job.

If future generations are to remember us more with gratitude than sorrow, we must achieve more than just the miracles of technology. We must also leave them a glimpse of the world as it was created, not just as it looked when we got through with it.

Technological progress has merely provided us with more efficient means for going backwards.

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.

Software is under a constant tension. Being symbolic it is arbitrarily perfectible; but also it is arbitrarily changeable.

The great thing about Object Oriented code is that it can make small, simple problems look like large, complex ones.

It is easier to write an incorrect program than understand a correct one.

Think of it! With VLSI we can pack 100 ENIACS in 1 sq. cm.

All programmers are playwrights and all computers are lousy actors.