Technology Quotes

What boots up must come down.

The advance of technology is based on making it fit in so that you don't really even notice it, so it's part of everyday life.

I wish life had an Undo function.

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

Daddy, what does FORMATTING DRIVE C mean?

What does it say about our culture that personality is now considered a technology, a tool of the trade, not only in politics but in business and the professions? Has everyone been forced to become an actor? In sixteenth century England, actors were.

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.

A distributed system is one in which the failure of a computer you didn't even know existed can render your own computer unusable.

I want people to understand the amazing, positive way our software can make leisure time more enjoyable, and work and businesses more successful.

You can measure a programmer's perspective by noting his attitude on the continuing vitality of FORTRAN.

In 20 or 30 years, you'll be able to hold in your hand as much computing knowledge as exists now in the whole city, or even the whole world.

The best programmers are not marginally better than merely good ones. They are an order-of-magnitude better, measured by whatever standard: conceptual creativity, speed, ingenuity of design, or problem-solving ability.

Paper is no longer a big part of my day. I get 90% of my news online, and when I go to a meeting and want to jot things down, I bring my Tablet PC. It's fully synchronized with my office machine so I have all the files I need.

I’ve finally learned what ‘upward compatible’ means. It means we get to keep all our old mistakes.

The modern computer hovers between the obsolescent and the nonexistent.

I’ve noticed lately that the paranoid fear of computers becoming intelligent and taking over the world has almost entirely disappeared from the common culture. Near as I can tell, this coincides with the release of MS-DOS.

Documentation is like term insurance: It satisfies because almost no one who subscribes to it depends on its benefits.

Worth noting: running 'reboot -h' does NOT produce a helpful usage message.

The spoken word was the first technology by which man was able to let go of his environment in order to grasp it in a new way.

Ours is a world of nuclear giants and ethical infants. If we continue to develop our technology without wisdom or prudence, our servant may prove to be our executioner.

I get Canadian porno - that's the extent of satellite service and Internet in my house.

Yesterday it worked Today it is not working Windows is like that

I'm struck by the insidious, computer-driven tendency to take things out of the domain of muscular activity and put them into the domain of mental activity.

Dating a girl is just like writing software. Everything's going to work just fine in the testing lab (dating), but as soon as you have contract with a customer (marriage), then your program (life) is going to be facing new situations you never expected. You'll be forced to patch the code (admit you're wrong) and then the code (wife) will just end up all bloated and unmaintainable in the end.

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