Technology Quotes

Just about anyone can pass if they have a home computer and are a quick study.

They should never have entered him in that computer. It's just common sense? that's the bottom line. I don't think it should have gotten this far.

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

A programming language is low level when its programs require attention to the irrelevant.

The medium is the message. This is merely to say that the personal and social consequences of any medium / that is, of any extension of ourselves / result from the new scale that is introduced into our affairs by each extension of ourselves, or by any new technology.

Any significant boost in technology could just as easily be a rigged demo.

In programming, everything we do is a special case of something more general -- and often we know it too quickly.

Computers make it easier to do a lot of things, but most of the things they make it easier to do don't need to be done.

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

The spoken word was the first technology by which man was able to let go of his environment in order to grasp it in a new way.

We have the mini and the micro computer. In what semantic niche would the pico computer fall?

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.

We've all heard that a million monkeys banging on a million typewriters will eventually reproduce the entire works of Shakespeare. Now, thanks to the Internet, we know this is not true.

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

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

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

If google made $1 everytime someone used them to find an answer to a tech support question, they would own microsoft.

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.

Microsoft is now talking about the digital nervous system... I guess I would be nervous if my system was built on their technology too.

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

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.

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.

Double your drive space — delete Windows !

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

A year spent in artificial intelligence is enough to make one believe in God.