Technology Quotes

There are so many ways to heal. Arrogance may have a place in technology, but not in healing. I need to get out of my own way if I am to heal.

We're responsible for the creation of the PC industry. The whole idea of compatible machines and lots of software.. that's something we brought to computing. And so it's a responsibility for us to make sure that things like security don't get in the way of that dream.

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

We are on the verge: Today our program proved Fermat's next-to-last theorem.

Do you realize if it weren't for Edison we'd be watching TV by candlelight?

I’ve finally learned what ‘upward compatible’ means. It means we get to keep all our old mistakes.

If I had taken a proprietary control of the Web, then it would never have taken off. People only committed their time to it because they knew it was open, shared: that they could help decide what would happen to it next.. and I wouldn't be raking off 10%!

The more I C, the less I see.

It is dangerously destabilizing to have half the world on the cutting edge of technology while the other half struggles on the bare edge of survival.

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

You will not even have enough time to go online and download all the patches to your computer before it is infected.

If you give someone a program, you will frustrate them for a day; if you teach them how to program, you will frustrate them for a lifetime.

Good programmers use their brains, but good guidelines save us having to think out every case.

We have the mini and the micro computer. In what semantic niche would the pico computer fall?

There are three kinds of death in this world. There's heart death, there's brain death, and there's being off the network.

The great thing about Object Oriented code is that it can make small, simple problems look like large, complex ones.

The purpose of medicine is to prevent significant disease, to decrease pain and to postpone death... Technology has to support these goals-if not, it may even be counterproductive.

The only constructive theory connecting neuroscience and psychology will arise from the study of software.

The eleventh commandment was "Thou Shalt Compute" or "Thou Shalt Not Compute" - I forget which.

As Will Rogers would have said, "There is no such thing as a free variable."

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

For systems, the analogue of a face-lift is to add to the control graph an edge that creates a cycle, not just an additional node.

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

Software is under a constant tension. Being symbolic it is arbitrarily perfectible; but also it is arbitrarily changeable.

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.