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Technology makes it possible for people to gain control over everything, except over technology.
There's a whole kind of hip element to it -- now I need this. Right smack in the middle of the 21st century, sophistication is marrying itself to a very old-fashioned notion of a table where you play games, long before television, video games and home computers. The deck of cards now has become cool again.
Computers are getting smarter all the time. Scientists tell us that soon they will be able to talk to us. (And by ‘they’, I mean ‘computers’. I doubt scientists will ever be able to talk to us.)
The greatest danger in modern technology isn't that machines will begin to think like people, but that people will begin to think like machines.
Orchestras only need to be sworn at, and a German is consequently at an advantage with them, as English profanity, except in America, has not gone beyond a limited technology of perdition.
Bill Gates is a very rich man today... and do you want to know why? The answer is one word: versions.
Over the centuries the Indians developed sign language for communicating phenomena of interest. Programmers from different tribes (FORTRAN, LISP, ALGOL, SNOBOL, etc.) could use one that doesn't require them to carry a blackboard on their ponies.
We will never become a truly paper-less society until the Palm Pilot folks come out with WipeMe 1.0.
Steve Jobs may have the apple, but Bill Gates has the entire orchard !
America's technology has turned in upon itself; its corporate form makes it the servant of profits, not the servant of human needs.
In computing, invariants are ephemeral.
If google made $1 everytime someone used them to find an answer to a tech support question, they would own microsoft.
What boots up must come down.
Bill Gates is the pope of the personal computer industry. He decides who's going to build.
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.
Syntactic sugar causes cancer of the semicolon.
Technology without hatred can be a blessing. Technology with hatred is always a disaster.
Capitalist production, therefore, develops technology, and the combining together of various processes into a social whole, only by sapping the original sources of all wealth - the soil and the labourer.
If I have seen further it is by standing on the shoulders of giants.
We really care about our brand. We really want it to stand for high quality. We want people to be excited about it, for it to be fun.
It's just like a computer. The more you load up, the slower it gets, the more issues arise.
It is easier to change the specification to fit the program than vice versa.
As soon as we started programming, we found to our surprise that it wasn’t as easy to get programs right as we had thought. Debugging had to be discovered. I can remember the exact instant when I realized that a large part of my life from then on was going to be spent in finding mistakes in my own programs.
Considering the current sad state of our computer programs, software development is clearly still a black art, and cannot yet be called an engineering discipline.
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.