Technology Quotes

I wish life had an Undo function.

Any fool can use a computer. Many do.

If the automobile had followed the same development cycle as the computer, a Rolls-Royce would today cost $100, get a million miles per gallon, and explode once a year, killing everyone inside.

Undetectable errors are infinite in variety, in contrast to detectable errors, which by definition are limited.

If two people write exactly the same program, each should be put into microcode and then they certainly won't be the same.

Adding programmers to a late project makes it later.

The federal government is like a handicapped turtle trying to crawl around and keep up with the rabbit, which is technology.

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.

Man is the best computer we can put aboard a spacecraft... and the only one that can be mass produced with unskilled labor.

I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination. Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world.

We will create a civilization of the Mind in Cyberspace. May it be more humane and fair than the world your governments have made before.

Once a new technology rolls over you, if you're not part of the steamroller, you're part of the road.

Real programmers can write assembly code in any language.

Information and communications technology unlocks the value of time, allowing and enabling multi-tasking, multi-channels, multi-this and multi-that.

If GM had kept up with technology like the computer industry has, we would all be driving $25 cars that got 1000 MPG.

A thunderstorm is God's way of saying you spend too much time in front of the computer.

The only problem with Microsoft is they just have no taste. They have absolutely no taste. And I don’t mean that in a small way, I mean that in a big way, in the sense that they don’t think of original ideas, and they don’t bring much culture into their products.

Technology is just a tool. In terms of getting the kids working together and motivating them, the teacher is the most important.

PHP is a minor evil perpetrated and created by incompetent amateurs, whereas Perl is a great and insidious evil perpetrated by skilled but perverted professionals.

In C++ it’s harder to shoot yourself in the foot, but when you do, you blow off your whole leg.

MS-DOS isn't dead, it just smells that way.

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

Home is where you hang your @.

Computers will never replace good old-fashioned human stupidity.

Education makes machines which act like men and produces men who act like machines.