Technology Quotes

Technology happens, it's not good, it's not bad. Is steel good or bad?

There's a lot that can be done for people who are using technology in a better way.

I hope that the internet will get to become ubiquitous and affordable, and if that's achieved, I think it'll be a big part of people's lives - for the better.

The Internet is like a giant jellyfish. You can't step on it. You can't go around it. You've got to get through it.

If I have seen further it is by standing on the shoulders of giants.

Microsoft is now talking about the digital nervous system... I guess I would be nervous if my system was built on their technology too.

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

The insanity of the collective egoic mind, amplified by science and technology, is rapidly taking our species to the brink of disaster. Evolve or die: that is our only choice now.

Over the centuries the Indians developed sign language for communicating phenomena of interest. Programmers from different tribes (FORTRAN, LISP, ALGOL, SNOBOL, etc.) could use one that doesn't require them to carry a blackboard on their ponies.

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

NO, You cannot dial 911, I'm downloading my mail !!!

If you automate a mess, you get an automated mess.

The Net interprets censorship as damage and routes around it.

Spending an evening on the World Wide Web is much like sitting down to a dinner of Cheetos, two hours later your fingers are yellow and you're no longer hungry, but you haven't been nourished.

A language that doesn't affect the way you think about programming, is not worth knowing.

Think of it! With VLSI we can pack 100 ENIACS in 1 sq. cm.

We've heard that a million monkeys at a keyboard could produce the Complete Works of Shakespeare; now, thanks to the Internet, we know this is not true.

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.

It is the framework which changes with each new technology and not just the picture within the frame.

Re graphics: A picture is worth 10K words - but only those to describe the picture. Hardly any sets of 10K words can be adequately described with pictures.

It's pretty incredible to look back 30 years to when Microsoft was starting and realize how work has been transformed. We're finally getting close to what I call the digital workstyle.

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

There's no set architecture in Linux. All roads lead to madness.

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.

Well, another market is being created now out of Internet technology.