Technology Quotes

Computers are getting smarter all the time. Scientists tell us that soon they will be able to talk to us. (And by ‘they’, I mean ‘computers’. I doubt scientists will ever be able to talk to us.)

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

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

Considering the flames and intolerance, shouldn't USENET be spelled ABUSENET?

Think of all the psychic energy expended in seeking a fundamental distinction between "algorithm" and "program".

When music technology takes the place of musicianship, it's time to pull the plug.

The Net interprets censorship as damage and routes around it.

Software companies should take more responsibility for security holes, especially in browsers and e-mail clients. There are some straightforward things the industry should be doing right now to fix things, and I don't know why they haven't been done yet.

Not everything that can be counted counts, and not everything that counts can be counted.

Technology without hatred can be a blessing. Technology with hatred is always a disaster.

SUPERCOMPUTER: what it sounded like before you bought it.

Not even computers will replace committees, because committees buy computers.

To better understand why you need a personal computer, let's take a look at the pathetic mess you call your life.

WinNT: All the headaches of Unix, but in a pretty, windowed environment.

Better to be a geek than an idiot.

The computing field is always in need of new cliches.

If your computer speaks English, it was probably made in Japan.

The sooner you start coding a program, the longer it will take.

Renewable energy is proven technology, the price is dropping, the rest of the world is going that way, that's where our investment should be going as well.

Technology is so much fun but we can drown in our technology. The fog of information can drive out knowledge.

The difference between e-mail and regular mail is that computers handle e-mail, and computers never decide to come to work one day and shoot all the other computers.

Men are from Mars. Women are from Venus. Computers are from hell.

640K ought to be enough for anybody.

I think computer viruses should count as life. I think it says something about human nature that the only form of life we have created so far is purely destructive. We've created life in our own image.

Measuring programming progress by lines of code is like measuring aircraft building progress by weight.