Technology Quotes

Technology: No Place for Wimps!

Ever notice how fast Windows runs ? — Neither did I.

I can't uninstall it, there seems to be some kind of 'Uninstall Shield'.

Technology is not an image of the world but a way of operating on reality. The nihilism of technology lies not only in the fact that it is the most perfect expression of the will to power... but also in the fact that it lacks meaning.

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

In headlines today, the dreaded killfile virus spread across the country adding 'aol.com' to people's Usenet kill files everywhere. The programmer of the virus still remains anonymous, but has been nominated several times for a Nobel peace prize.

When music technology takes the place of musicianship, it's time to pull the plug.

One good reason why computers can do more work than people is that they never have to stop and answer the phone.

The research rat of the future allows experimentation without manipulation of the real world. This is the cutting edge of modeling technology.

Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.

We're only at the beginning of what we have to do here.

So many good ideas are never heard from again once they embark in a voyage on the semantic gulf.

The great thing about a computer notebook is that no matter how much you stuff into it, it doesn't get bigger or heavier.

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.

You can’t have great software without a great team, and most software teams behave like dysfunctional families.

This is a big deal. It's a fairly natural partnership; it shouldn't surprise people, ... We're working on bringing this network-is-the-computer, Net services environment.

First words on the first telephone - "Mr. Watson -- come here -- I want to see you."

I’ve noticed lately that the paranoid fear of computers becoming intelligent and taking over the world has almost entirely disappeared from the common culture. Near as I can tell, this coincides with the release of MS-DOS.

Documentation is like term insurance: It satisfies because almost no one who subscribes to it depends on its benefits.

It has become appallingly obvious that our technology has exceeded our humanity.

Build a program that even a fool can use, and only a fool will want to use it.

America's technology has turned in upon itself; its corporate form makes it the servant of profits, not the servant of human needs.

We're responsible for the creation of the PC industry. The whole idea of compatible machines and lots of software.. that's something we brought to computing. And so it's a responsibility for us to make sure that things like security don't get in the way of that dream.

Technology is ruled by two types of people: those who manage what they do not understand, and those who understand what they do not manage.

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