Technology Quotes

I'm a great believer in new technology and I think new technology is very scary for newspaper companies.

Computers in the future may have only 1,000 vacuum tubes and perhapsonly weigh 1 1/2 tons.

I would love to change the world, but they won't give me the source code.

I had a fortune cookie the other day and it said: 'Outlook not so good'. I said: 'Sure, but Microsoft ships it anyway'.

The US Nuclear Security Administration runs the Blue Gene supercomputer. It is supposed to be the top super computer in the world ? and it runs on GNU Linux. Of the top 10 super computers in the world, seven run on GNU Linux. From a security point of view, there is a case to be made.

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.

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

Competition is always a fantastic thing, and the computer industry is intensely competitive. Whether it's Google or Apple or free software, we've got some fantastic competitors and it keeps us on our toes.

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.

The goal of computation is the emulation of our synthetic abilities, not the understanding of our analytic ones.

Saying your OS is the best in the world 'cause more people use it is like saying McDonalds makes the best food in the world.

A computer makes it possible to do, in half an hour, tasks which were completely unnecessary to do before.

It's not that we use technology, we live technology.

A printer consists of three main parts: the case, the jammed paper tray and the blinking red light.

I also introduce skills like using a hula hoop or jumping rope. I think many kids this age need a break from the computer or video games to learn these very important physical skills.

Fifty years of programming language research, and we end up with C++?

Technological progress is like an axe in the hands of a pathological criminal.

All of the books in the world contain no more information than is broadcast as video in a single large American city in a single year. Not all bits have equal value.

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.

Most of you are familiar with the virtues of a programmer. There are three, of course: laziness, impatience, and hubris.

It would appear that we have reached the limits of what it is possible to achieve with computer technology, although one should be careful with such statements, as they tend to sound pretty silly in 5 years.

The purpose of medicine is to prevent significant disease, to decrease pain and to postpone death... Technology has to support these goals-if not, it may even be counterproductive.

I have gotten everything from a one-page letter written in pencil to a 50-page computer generated masterpiece.

Programmers are not to be measured by their ingenuity and their logic but by the completeness of their case analysis.

There's a great desire to be computer-savvy among those 50 and older. They're really hungry for it.