Technology Quotes

You will not even have enough time to go online and download all the patches to your computer before it is infected.

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

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

Hacking is like sex. You get in, you get out, and hope that you didn't leave something that can be traced back to you.

Computers can now keep a man's every transgression recorded in a permanent memory bank, duplicating with complex programming and intricate wiring a feat his wife handles quite well without fuss or fanfare.

Imagine if every Thursday your shoes exploded if you tied them the usual way. This happens to us all the time with computers, and nobody thinks of complaining.

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

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

Imagination is more important than knowledge. For knowledge is limited to all we now know and understand, while imagination embraces the entire world, and all there ever will be to know and understand.

MS-DOS, an OS originally designed for a microprocessor that modern kitchen appliances would sneer at.

Early on, when software was developed by computer scientists, just people working with computers, people passed around software because that was how you got computers to do things.

Technology is always evolving, and companies.. not just search companies.. can't be afraid to take advantage of change.

Calculations which required a $20 million machine eight years ago can be done on a Mac cluster costing about $11,000.

Debugging is twice as hard as writing the code in the first place. Therefore, if you write the code as cleverly as possible, you are–by definition–not smart enough to debug it.

Many people see technology as the problem behind the so-called digital divide. Others see it as the solution. Technology is neither. It must operate in conjunction with business, economic, political and social system.

The attention span of a computer is only as long as its electrical cord.

People keep asking me what I think of it now that it's done. Hence my protest: The Web is not done!

To err is human, but to really foul things up requires a computer.

Program complexity grows until it exceeds the capabilities of the programmer who must maintain it.

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

We've heard that a million monkeys at a keyboard could produce the Complete Works of Shakespeare; now, thanks to the Internet, we know this is not true.

In computing, invariants are ephemeral.

Software companies should take more responsibility for security holes, especially in browsers and e-mail clients. There are some straightforward things the industry should be doing right now to fix things, and I don't know why they haven't been done yet.

Technology favors horrible people.

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