Technology Quotes

From the time I was 7, when I purchased my first calculator, I was fascinated by the idea of a machine that could compute things.

To iterate is human, to recurse divine.

The Internet is not just one thing, it's a collection of things - of numerous communications networks that all speak the same digital language.

The use of a program to prove the 4-color theorem will not change mathematics - it merely demonstrates that the theorem, a challenge for a century, is probably not important to mathematics.

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).

Some people think technology has the answers.

When we understand knowledge-based systems, it will be as before -- except our fingertips will have been singed.

I believe that Silicon Valley is truly a place of excellence and the impact of this tiny community on the world is completely disproportionate to its size. We are the undisputed leaders of technological change. But with our abundance of talent and resources, we also have the opportunity to be the pioneers of social change and, ultimately, this may be our greatest contribution.

High technology has done us one great service: It has retaught us the delight of performing simple and primordial tasks - chopping wood, building a fire, drawing water from a spring.

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.

C++ : Where friends have access to your private members.

Database: the information you lose when your memory crashes.

True innovation often comes from the small startup who is lean enough to launch a market but lacks the heft to own it.

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

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

I have an almost religious zeal.. not for technology per se, but for the Internet which is for me, the nervous system of mother Earth, which I see as a living creature, linking up.

The "Net is a waste of time, and that's exactly what's right about it.

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.

Bringing computers into the home won't change either one, but may revitalize the corner saloon.

To err is human--and to blame it on a computer is even more so.

Whenever two programmers meet to criticize their programs, both are silent.

In all large corporations, there is a pervasive fear that someone, somewhere is having fun with a computer on company time. Networks help alleviate that fear.

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.

I wish life had an Undo function.

Good code is its own best documentation.