Technology Quotes

We shouldn't build a technology to colour, or grey out, what people say. The media in general is balanced, although there are a lot of issues to be addressed that the media rightly pick up on.

Get into a rut early: Do the same process the same way. Accumulate idioms. Standardize. The only difference(!) between Shakespeare and you was the size of his idiom list - not the size of his vocabulary.

Commercial jazz, soap opera, pulp fiction, comic strips, the movies set the images, mannerisms, standards, and aims of the urban masses. In one way or another, everyone is equal before these cultural machines; like technology itself, the mass media are nearly universal in their incidence and appeal. They are a kind of common denominator, a kind of scheme for pre-scheduled, mass emotions.

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

There are three kinds of death in this world. There's heart death, there's brain death, and there's being off the network.

If we continue to develop our technology without wisdom or prudence, our servant may prove to be our executioner.

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.

It's very important to remember that it's your intellectual property; it's not your computer. And in the pursuit of protection of intellectual property, it's important not to defeat or undermine the security measures that people need to adopt in these days.

In programming, as in everything else, to be in error is to be reborn.

Grove giveth and Gates taketh away.

The most amazing achievement of the computer software industry is its continuing cancellation of the steady and staggering gains made by the computer hardware industry.

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

There's a lot that can be done for people who are using technology in a better way.

I think one of the big errors people are making right now is thinking that old-style businesses will be obsolete, when actually they will be an important part of this new civilization. Some retail groups are introducing e-commerce and think that the "bricks" are no longer useful. But they will continue to be important.

Software is under a constant tension. Being symbolic it is arbitrarily perfectible; but also it is arbitrarily changeable.

Build a program that even a fool can use, and only a fool will want to use it.

So many good ideas are never heard from again once they embark in a voyage on the semantic gulf.

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

We live in a world ruled by fictions of every kind -- mass merchandising, advertising, politics conducted as a branch of advertising, the instant translation of science and technology into popular imagery, the increasing blurring and intermingling of identities within the realm of consumer goods, the preempting of any free or original imaginative response to experience by the television screen. We live inside an enormous novel. For the writer in particular it is less and less necessary for him to invent the fictional content of his novel. The fiction is already there. The writer's task is to invent the reality.

People always fear change. People feared electricity when it was invented, didn't they? People feared coal, they feared gas-powered engines... There will always be ignorance, and ignorance leads to fear. But with time, people will come to accept their silicon masters.

Too few people in computer science are aware of some of the informational challenges in biology and their implications for the world. We can store an incredible amount of data very cheaply.

Saying that most of the computer was filled with personal images is simply not accurate.

Microsoft is now talking about the digital nervous system... I guess I would be nervous if my system was built on their technology too.

Structured Programming supports the law of the excluded muddle.

The only truly secure computer is one buried in concrete, with the power turned off and the network cable cut.