Technology Quotes

It is questionable if all the mechanical inventions yet made have lightened the day's toil of any human being.

Chaos reigns within. Reflect, repent, and reboot. Order shall return.

Humanity is acquiring all the right technology for all the wrong reasons.

We're seeing how the videos translate to the live shows and how the technology is really reaching kids.

Life is about family and technology.

The march of science and technology does not imply growing intellectual complexity in the lives of most people. It often means the opposite.

We will never become a truly paper-less society until the Palm Pilot folks come out with WipeMe 1.0.

We know by now that if we make technology the predestined force in our lives, man will walk to the measure of its demands. We know how leveling that influence can be, how easy it is to computerize man and make him a servile thing in a vast industrial complex. . . . This means we must subject the machine -- technology -- to control and cease despoiling the earth and filling people with goodies merely to make money.

The issues involved are sufficiently important that courses are now moving out of the philosophy departments and into mainstream computer science. And they affect everyone. Many of the students attracted to these courses are not technology majors, and many of the topics we discuss relate to ethical challenges that transcend the computer world.

The computer reminds one of Lon Chaney -- it is the machine of a thousand faces.

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

Bill Gates is the pope of the personal computer industry. He decides who's going to build.

My computer must be broken: whenever I ask a wrong question, it gives a wrong answer.

Unix was not designed to stop you from doing stupid things, because that would also stop you from doing clever things.

I find sitting at a specially equipped desk in front of some pretty ugly plastics and staring at a little window is a very unnatural event.

Silos can't interoperate unless the technology does.

To turn really interesting ideas and fledgling technologies into a company that can continue to innovate for years, it requires a lot of disciplines.

Apparently, Windows 98 is going to be renamed 'Diana, Princess of Windows'. It's overrated, overpriced, consumes loads of resources and crashes spectacularly...

I get mail, therefore I am.

A LISP programmer knows the value of everything, but the cost of nothing.

The Internet is a great way to get on the net.

Often it is the means that justify the ends: Goals advance technique and technique survives even when goal structures crumble.

The perfect computer has been developed. You just feed in your problems and they never come out again.

A complex system that works is invariably found to have evolved from a simple system that worked.

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