Technology Quotes

It would appear that we have reached the limits of what it is possible to achieve with computer technology, although one should be careful with such statements, as they tend to sound pretty silly in 5 years.

David and I and the rest of the Yahoos here really believe that the internet should remain as free as possible. At the same time we are a business and have fiscal responsibilities.

Some people think technology has the answers.

The newest computer can merely compound, at speed, the oldest problem in the relations between human beings, and in the end the communicator will be confronted with the old problem, of what to say and how to say it.

For a list of all the ways technology has failed to improve the quality of life, please press three.

A hacker on a roll may be able to produce–in a period of a few months–something that a small development group (say, 7-8 people) would have a hard time getting together over a year. IBM used to report that certain programmers might be as much as 100 times as productive as other workers, or more.

Come to think of it, there are already a million monkeys on a million typewriters, and Usenet is nothing like Shakespeare.

A computer will do what you tell it to do, but that may be much different from what you had in mind.

Every program has (at least) two purposes: the one for which it was written, and another for which it wasn't.

When we understand knowledge-based systems, it will be as before -- except our fingertips will have been singed.

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.

Beware of the Turing tar-pit in which everything is possible but nothing of interest is easy.

I'm not anti-social; I'm just not user friendly.

To turn really interesting ideas and fledgling technologies into a company that can continue to innovate for years, it requires a lot of disciplines.

It has become appallingly obvious that our technology has exceeded our humanity.

WWW? Nice toy, but what a waste of time.

I think one of the big errors people are making right now is thinking that old-style businesses will be obsolete, when actually they will be an important part of this new civilization. Some retail groups are introducing e-commerce and think that the "bricks" are no longer useful. But they will continue to be important.

Like punning, programming is a play on words.

If we believe in data structures, we must believe in independent (hence simultaneous) processing. For why else would we collect items within a structure? Why do we tolerate languages that give us the one without the other?

Technology is the drug of choice for most Americans. Source unknown Theory: when you have ideas. Ideology: when ideas have you.

High technology has done us one great service: It has retaught us the delight of performing simple and primordial tasks - chopping wood, building a fire, drawing water from a spring.

My computer must be broken: whenever I ask a wrong question, it gives a wrong answer.

You think you know when you can learn, are more sure when you can write, even more when you can teach, but certain when you can program.

Technology: No Place for Wimps!

Five years ago, we thought of the Web as a new medium, not a new economy.