Technology Quotes

The best museums and museum exhibits about science or technology give you the feeling that, hey, this is interesting, but maybe I could do something here, too.

Ever notice how fast Windows runs ? — Neither did I.

Structured Programming supports the law of the excluded muddle.

Today's meters are little computers.

The medium, or process, of our time - electric technology is reshaping and restructuring patterns of social interdependence and every aspect of our personal life. It is forcing us to reconsider and re-evaluate practically every thought, every action.

Systems have sub-systems and sub-systems have sub- systems and so on ad infinitum - which is why we're always starting over.

It is easier to write an incorrect program than understand a correct one.

Never trust a computer you can’t throw out a window.

If you don't double-click me, I can't do anything.

There used to be this country called the Soviet Union; it's not there anymore. Our technology was better than theirs.

Live TV died in the late 1950s, electronic bulletin boards came along in the mid-1980s, meaning there was about a 25-year gap when it was difficult to put your foot in your mouth and have people all across the country know about it.

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

There are three kinds of death in this world. There's heart death, there's brain death, and there's being off the network.

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.

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

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

Web users ultimately want to get at data quickly and easily. They don't care as much about attractive sites and pretty design.

If we had had the right technology back then, you would have seen Eva Braun on the Donahue show and Adolf Hitler on Meet the Press.

It is the framework which changes with each new technology and not just the picture within the frame.

For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for Nature cannot be fooled.

The Internet is not just one thing, it's a collection of things - of numerous communications networks that all speak the same digital language.

It is the user who should parameterize procedures, not their creators.

Wherever there is modularity there is the potential for misunderstanding: Hiding information implies a need to check communication.

Technology is not an image of the world but a way of operating on reality. The nihilism of technology lies not only in the fact that it is the most perfect expression of the will to power... but also in the fact that it lacks meaning.

From then on, when anything went wrong with a computer, we said it had bugs in it.