Technology Quotes

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.

Any code of your own that you haven’t looked at for six or more months might as well have been written by someone else.

There are managers so preoccupied with their e-mail messages that they never look up from their screens to see what's happening in the nondigital world.

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.

If a program is useful, it will have to be changed.

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

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

If GM had kept up with technology like the computer industry has, we would all be driving $25 cars that got 1000 MPG.

The greatest danger in modern technology isn't that machines will begin to think like people, but that people will begin to think like machines.

Modern technology Owes ecology An apology.

Complexity kills. It sucks the life out of developers, it makes products difficult to plan, build and test, it introduces security challenges, and it causes end-user and administrator frustration.

If it keeps up, man will atrophy all his limbs but the push-button finger.

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.

The cybernetic exchange between man, computer and algorithm is like a game of musical chairs: The frantic search for balance always leaves one of the three standing ill at ease.

We're changing the world with technology.

Inside every small program is a large program struggling to get out.

This is not a phone business. This is the smallest video camera, it's the smallest computer, smallest TV.

Moore's Law - The number of transistors and resistors on a chip doubles every 24 months

We have technology, finally, that for the first time in human history allows people to really maintain rich connections with much larger numbers of people.

Saying that most of the computer was filled with personal images is simply not accurate.

The best book on programming for the layman is "Alice in Wonderland"; but that's because it's the best book on anything for the layman.

The computer programmer is a creator of universes for which he alone is responsible. Universes of virtually unlimited complexity can be created in the form of computer programs.

Information and communications technology unlocks the value of time, allowing and enabling multi-tasking, multi-channels, multi-this and multi-that.

Structured Programming supports the law of the excluded muddle.

Technology makes it possible for people to gain control over everything, except over technology.