Technology Quotes

Crap... Someone knocked over my recycle bin... There's icons all over my desktop...

We have technology, finally, that for the first time in human history allows people to really maintain rich connections with much larger numbers of people.

Microsoft: "You've got questions. We've got dancing paperclips."

If we had had the right technology back then, you would have seen Eva Braun on the Donahue show and Adolf Hitler on Meet the Press.

We are very much believers that the web is an open environment, and we need to make sure that people can find all kinds of different stuff through Yahoo!, and not necessarily keeping people within Yahoo!

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

Often it is the means that justify the ends: Goals advance technique and technique survives even when goal structures crumble.

The more I C, the less I see.

Of course, the best way to get accurate information on Usenet is to post something wrong and wait for corrections.

We are now able to see things in nature of what was previously only available in computer simulation.

If google made $1 everytime someone used them to find an answer to a tech support question, they would own microsoft.

If you tried to read every document on the web, then for each day's effort you would be a year further behind in your goal.

If you have any trouble sounding condescending, find a Unix user to show you how it's done.

We kid ourselves if we think that the ratio of procedure to data in an active data-base system can be made arbitrarily small or even kept small.

Encryption...is a powerful defensive weapon for free people. It offers a technical guarantee of privacy, regardless of who is running the government... It's hard to think of a more powerful, less dangerous tool for liberty.

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

America's technology has turned in upon itself; its corporate form makes it the servant of profits, not the servant of human needs.

Unix was not designed to stop you from doing stupid things, because that would also stop you from doing clever things.

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

We will create a civilization of the Mind in Cyberspace. May it be more humane and fair than the world your governments have made before.

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

Whereas knights of old wore armor of plate, the modern knights of the air wear the invisible but magic armor of confidence in technology.

Not even computers will replace committees, because committees buy computers.

Food for thought: A fully-protected-and-updated Windows box cannot, by definition, have an uptime of more than 30 days.

Computers have lots of memory but no imagination.