Technology Quotes

Ooops. My brain just hit a bad sector.

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

Technology is ruled by two types of people: those who manage what they do not understand, and those who understand what they do not manage.

The last good thing written in C++ was the Pachelbel Canon.

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

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

Everyone has a right to a university degree in America, even if it's in Hamburger Technology.

The trouble with programmers is that you can never tell what a programmer is doing until it’s too late.

Computers make it easier to do a lot of things, but most of the things they make it easier to do don't need to be done.

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 are broken toilets left there, old computers and miscellaneous garbage. They are totally unsupervised. The recycling company is good, but when people want to dump trash, they dump trash.

It was a pivotal moment in the history of computers and the history of advertising.

After a day spent staring at a computer monitor, think of (a) book as a kind of screen saver for your brain.

640K ought to be enough for anybody.

The US Nuclear Security Administration runs the Blue Gene supercomputer. It is supposed to be the top super computer in the world ? and it runs on GNU Linux. Of the top 10 super computers in the world, seven run on GNU Linux. From a security point of view, there is a case to be made.

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.

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

Don't have good ideas if you aren't willing to be responsible for them.

I also introduce skills like using a hula hoop or jumping rope. I think many kids this age need a break from the computer or video games to learn these very important physical skills.

From then on, when anything went wrong with a computer, we said it had bugs in it.

That’s what’s cool about working with computers. They don’t argue, they remember everything, and they don’t drink all your beer.

If debugging is the process of removing bugs, then programming must be the process of putting them in.

Modern technology Owes ecology An apology.

The factory of the future will have only two employees, a man and a dog. The man will be there to feed the dog. The dog will be there to keep the man from touching the equipment.

We hope that the Internet becomes even more affordable and more ubiquitous over time, and our mission at Yahoo! is to continue to keep our services available AND useful on all these platforms.