Technology Quotes

I used to think that cyberspace was fifty years away. What I thought was fifty years away, was only ten years away. And what I thought was ten years away... it was already here. I just wasn't aware of it yet.

Technology is like a fish. The longer it stays on the shelf, the less desirable it becomes.

Software expands to consume all available resources.

The idea is that instead of going to an online retail site ... and buying a physical CD and having it shipped to you, you actually can buy the song and download the song to your computer hard drive.

To iterate is human, to recurse divine.

I believe that this notion of self-publishing, which is what Blogger and blogging are really about, is the next big wave of human communication. The last big wave was Web activity. Before that one it was e-mail. Instant messaging was an extension of e-mail, real-time e-mail.

The best programmers are not marginally better than merely good ones. They are an order-of-magnitude better, measured by whatever standard: conceptual creativity, speed, ingenuity of design, or problem-solving ability.

The computer is the most extraordinary of man's technological clothing; it's an extension of our central nervous system. Beside it, the wheel is a mere hula-hoop.

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

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.

If you tried to read every document on the web, then for each day's effort you would be a year further behind in your goal.

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.

A world technology means either a world government or world suicide.

Computers are like air conditioners: they stop working when you open windows.

To create a new standard it takes something that's not just a little bit different. It takes something that's really new and really captures people's imagination. And the Macintosh, of all the machines I've ever seen, is the only one that meets that standard.

The only constructive theory connecting neuroscience and psychology will arise from the study of software.

The string is a stark data structure and everywhere it is passed there is much duplication of process. It is a perfect vehicle for hiding information.

A Windows user spends 1/3 of his life sleeping, 1/3 working, 1/3 waiting.

Recursion is the root of computation since it trades description for time.

I just bought a Mac to help me design the next Cray.

The use of COBOL cripples the mind; its teaching should therefore be regarded as a criminal offense.

Not even computers will replace committees, because committees buy computers.

Some say Google is God. Others say Google is Satan. But if they think Google is too powerful, remember that with search engines unlike other companies, all it takes is a single click to go to another search engine.

Daddy, what does FORMATTING DRIVE C mean?

The world is coming to an end... SAVE YOUR BUFFERS!