Technology Quotes

Well Microsoft really does develop some really interesting technology.

It has been said that the great scientific disciplines are examples of giants standing on the shoulders of other giants. It has also been said that the software industry is an example of midgets standing on the toes of other midgets.

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

The Linux philosophy is "Laugh in the face of danger". Oops. Wrong One. "Do it yourself". Yes, that's it.

There are two ways to write error-free programs; only the third one works.

Never before in history has innovation offered promise of so much to so many in so short a time.

They've grown up with the computer, so they expect things to be faster, including cooking. They like baking by adding things to a mix. In recipes, they want fewer ingredients -- seven is ideal -- and they like step-by-step pictures that show them what to do.

Like car accidents, most hardware problems are due to driver error.

The computer is the ultimate polluter: its feces are indistinguish- able from the food it produces.

Life is about family and technology.

Anyone who spends their life on a computer is pretty unusual.

If a listener nods his head when you're explaining your program, wake him up.

The Internet is becoming the town square for the global village of tomorrow.

Technology does not run an enterprise, relationships do.

The insanity of the collective egoic mind, amplified by science and technology, is rapidly taking our species to the brink of disaster. Evolve or die: that is our only choice now.

The march of science and technology does not imply growing intellectual complexity in the lives of most people. It often means the opposite.

If I have seen further it is by standing on the shoulders of giants.

If computers had invented humans as part of a BI program (biological intelligence), humans would have been tossed aside as barely having achieved perfect game play at Tic-Tac-Toe.

From the time I was 7, when I purchased my first calculator, I was fascinated by the idea of a machine that could compute things.

You can either have software quality or you can have pointer arithmetic, but you cannot have both at the same time.

Orchestras only need to be sworn at, and a German is consequently at an advantage with them, as English profanity, except in America, has not gone beyond a limited technology of perdition.

My software never has bugs. It just develops random features.

E-mail — When it absolutely, positively has to get lost at the speed of light.

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

Buying the right computer and getting it to work properly is no more complicated than building a nuclear reactor from wristwatch parts in a darkened room using only your teeth.