Technology Quotes

We're only at the beginning of what we have to do here.

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.

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

We will never become a truly paper-less society until the Palm Pilot folks come out with WipeMe 1.0.

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.

Efforts to protect critical computer networks have unfortunately not kept pace with the march of technology.

The Internet is becoming the town square for the global village of tomorrow.

Computers, huh? I've heard it all boils down to just a bunch of ones and zeroes.... I don't know how that enables me to see naked women, but however it works, God bless you guys.

Everyone can be taught to sculpt: Michelangelo would have had to be taught not to. So it is with great programmers.

One would think that if you're anonymous, you'd do anything you want, but groups have their own sense of community and what we can do.

Imagine a school with children that can read or write, but with teachers who cannot, and you have a metaphor of the Information Age in which we live.

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.

It is better to have 100 functions operate on one data structure than 10 functions on 10 data structures.

Where there is the necessary technical skill to move mountains, there is no need for the faith that moves mountains.

What is the difference between a Turing machine and the modern computer? It's the same as that between Hillary's ascent of Everest and the establishment of a Hilton hotel on its peak.

The system of nature, of which man is a part, tends to be self-balancing, self-adjusting, self-cleansing. Not so with technology.

Giving up on assembly language was the apple in our Garden of Eden: Languages whose use squanders machine cycles are sinful. The LISP machine now permits LISP programmers to abandon bra and fig-leaf.

Any fool can use a computer. Many do.

Think of all the psychic energy expended in seeking a fundamental distinction between "algorithm" and "program".

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.

The march of science and technology does not imply growing intellectual complexity in the lives of most people. It often means the opposite.

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

Vista is the the George W Bush of the technology industry.

Computers will never replace good old-fashioned human stupidity.

Difference between a virus and windows ? Viruses rarely fail.