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"It is the framework which changes with each new technology and not just the picture within the frame."
"The trouble with programmers is that you can never tell what a programmer is doing until it’s too late."
"Applying computer technology is simply finding the right wrench to pound in the correct screw."
"Users /nm./: collective term for those who use computers. Users are divided into three types: novice, intermediate and expert. Novice Users: people who are afraid that simply pressing a key might break their computer. Intermediate Users: people who don't know how to…"
"I think it's fair to say that personal computers have become the most empowering tool we've ever created. They're tools of communication, they're tools of creativity, and they can be shaped by their user."
"I need to make an okay living. The people who work for us need to. But after you make a comfortable living, how much more do you need? It's like I make a joke about nerd values, because I'm very…"
"The Internet is the end of civilizations, cultures, interests and ethics."
"It's hard for us in our stores to be a leader in technology."
"Innovation distinguishes between a leader and a follower."
"I don't want to be left behind. In fact, I want to be here before the action starts."
"I think Amazon is the preeminent pioneer in building a new way of doing commerce: personalized, database-driven commerce, where the big value is not in the purchase fulfillment, but in knowing as much about a customer base of ten or…"
"Web users ultimately want to get at data quickly and easily. They don't care as much about attractive sites and pretty design."
"Technology... is a queer thing. It brings you great gifts with one hand, and it stabs you in the back with the other."
"It's not that we use technology, we live technology."
"Inside every small program is a large program struggling to get out."
"The Linux philosophy is "Laugh in the face of danger". Oops. Wrong One. "Do it yourself". Yes, that's it."
"Unfortunately this was an older file that this person hadn't opened in quite a while. The person who uses this computer had missed it."
"The most exciting breakthroughs of the 21st century will not occur because of technology but because of an expanding concept of what it means to be human."
"Well, another market is being created now out of Internet technology."
"I see no progress in this industry. These clocks are no faster than the ones they made a hundred years ago."
"MS-DOS isn't dead, it just smells that way."
"Unix is user-friendly. It's just very selective about who its friends are."
"eBay's business is based on enabling someone to do business with another person, and to do that, they first have to develop some measure of trust, either in the other person or the system."
"Everything should be built top-down, except the first time."
"Americans have the right to have their medical decisions made by them and their doctors, and not by those bureaucrats sitting behind a computer screen hundreds of miles away."
"It has become appallingly obvious that our technology has exceeded our humanity."
"All of the biggest technological inventions created by man - the airplane, the automobile, the computer - says little about his intelligence, but speaks volumes about his laziness."
"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."
"Any teacher that can be replaced by a computer, deserves to be."
"In view of all the deadly computer viruses that have been spreading lately, Weekend Update would like to remind you: when you link up to another computer, you're linking up to every computer that that computer has ever linked up…"
"First, solve the problem. Then, write the code."
"Yesterday it worked Today it is not working Windows is like that"
"Humanity is acquiring all the right technology for all the wrong reasons."
"The probability of a flawless demo is inversely proportional to the number of people watching, raised to the power of the amount of money involved."
"It was a pivotal moment in the history of computers and the history of advertising."
"Information and communications technology unlocks the value of time, allowing and enabling multi-tasking, multi-channels, multi-this and multi-that."
"Science is not marginal. Like art, it is a universal possession of humanity, and scientific knowledge has become a vital part of our species' repertory. It comprises what we know of the material world with reasonable certainty. . . .…"
"Think of all the psychic energy expended in seeking a fundamental distinction between "algorithm" and "program"."
"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 Microsoft. Resistance Is Futile. You Will Be Assimilated."
"Technology makes the world a new place."
"Technology innovation is starting to explode and having open-source material out there really helps this explosion. You get students and researchers involved and you get people coming through and building start ups based on open source products."
"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."
"Double your drive space — delete Windows !"
"Security is, I would say, our top priority because for all the exciting things you will be able to do with computers.. organizing your lives, staying in touch with people, being creative.. if we don't solve these security problems, then…"
"There are two ways to write error-free programs; only the third one works."
"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…"
"I completely love playing and designing games and always will. I am so into games that I listen to game music all day. That may sound strange, but you can guarantee I'm a hardcore gamer and would never let you…"