Technology Quotes

An adequate bootstrap is a contradiction in terms.

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.

We always overestimate the change that will occur in the next two years and underestimate the change that will occur in the next ten. Don't let yourself be lulled into inaction.

Don’t worry if it doesn’t work right. If everything did, you’d be out of a job.

Technology: No Place for Wimps!

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

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

Two men were examining the output of the new computer in their department. After an hour or so of analyzing the data, one of them remarked: "Do you realize it would take 400 men at least 250 years to make a mistake this big ?

But they are useless. They can only give you answers.

When someone says "I want a programming language in which I need only say what I wish done," give him a lollipop.

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

There was a time when nails were high-tech. There was a time when people had to be told how to use a telephone. Technology is just a tool. People use tools to improve their lives.

One good reason why computers can do more work than people is that they never have to stop and answer the phone.

The most important and urgent problems of the technology of today are no longer the satisfactions of primary needs or of archetypal wishes, but the reparation of the evils and damages by technology of yesterday.

Any code of your own that you haven’t looked at for six or more months might as well have been written by someone else.

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

In software systems, it is often the early bird that makes the worm.

Build a program that even a fool can use, and only a fool will want to use it.

Though the Chinese should adore APL, it's FORTRAN they put their money on.

Three things are certain: Death, taxes, and lost data. Guess which has occurred.

The Linux philosophy is "Laugh in the face of danger". Oops. Wrong One. "Do it yourself". Yes, that's it.

The new information technology—Internet and e-mail—have practically eliminated the physical costs of communications.

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

Be nice to geeks when you're in school, you might end-up working for one when you grow-up.

I also introduce skills like using a hula hoop or jumping rope. I think many kids this age need a break from the computer or video games to learn these very important physical skills.