Technology Quotes

The research rat of the future allows experimentation without manipulation of the real world. This is the cutting edge of modeling technology.

It is easier to change the specification to fit the program than vice versa.

Computers are useless. They can only give you answers.

When we write programs that "learn", it turns out that we do and they don't.

That can be a good tax planning tool for small businesses - especially if you get a computer or something that you were planning to buy (in the coming year anyway).

To better understand why you need a personal computer, let's take a look at the pathetic mess you call your life.

It's hard for us in our stores to be a leader in technology.

First we thought the PC was a calculator. Then we found out how to turn numbers into letters with ASCII — and we thought it was a typewriter. Then we discovered graphics, and we thought it was a television. With the World Wide Web, we've realized it's a brochure.

Advances in computer technology and the Internet have changed the way America works, learns, and communicates. The Internet has become an integral part of America's economic, political, and social life.

Technology is a gift of God. After the gift of life it is perhaps the greatest of God's gifts. It is the mother of civilizations, of arts and of sciences.

Today's meters are little computers.

Calculations which required a $20 million machine eight years ago can be done on a Mac cluster costing about $11,000.

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.

It is easier to write an incorrect program than understand a correct one.

Systems have sub-systems and sub-systems have sub- systems and so on ad infinitum - which is why we're always starting over.

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

If GM had kept up with technology like the computer industry has, we would all be driving $25 cars that got 1000 MPG.

You know you're a geek when... You try to shoo a fly away from the monitor with your cursor. That just happened to me. It was scary.

The Internet: where men are men, women are men, and children are FBI agents.

The only people who have anything to fear from free software are those whose products are worth even less.

Western society has accepted as unquestionable a technological imperative that is quite as arbitrary as the most primitive taboo: not merely the duty to foster invention and constantly to create technological novelties, but equally the duty to surrender to these novelties unconditionally, just because they are offered, without respect to their human consequences.

Structured Programming supports the law of the excluded muddle.

The use of COBOL cripples the mind; its teaching should therefore be regarded as a criminal offense.

The science of today is the technology of tomorrow.

It makes life difficult ... because law changes very slowly. We have judges who did not grow up with computers and so many do not understand the technology and issues it raises.