Technology Quotes

Computer language design is just like a stroll in the park. Jurassic Park, that is.

Any teacher that can be replaced by a computer, deserves to be.

Computation has made the tree flower.

One man's constant is another man's variable.

The mass majority of computer users are conservative. They want to use the software they're used to using.

Yesterday it worked Today it is not working Windows is like that

Applying computer technology is simply finding the right wrench to pound in the correct screw.

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

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

If computers get too powerful, we can organize them into a committee. That will do them in.

For systems, the analogue of a face-lift is to add to the control graph an edge that creates a cycle, not just an additional node.

To err is human, but to really foul things up requires a computer.

If a listener nods his head when you're explaining your program, wake him up.

First we thought the PC was a calculator. Then we found out how to turn numbers into letters with ASCII — and we thought it was a typewriter. Then we discovered graphics, and we thought it was a television. With the World Wide Web, we've realized it's a brochure.

It would appear that we have reached the limits of what it is possible to achieve with computer technology, although one should be careful with such statements, as they tend to sound pretty silly in 5 years.

If we had a reliable way to label our toys good and bad, it would be easy to regulate technology wisely. But we can rarely see far enough ahead to know which road leads to damnation. Whoever concerns himself with big technology, either to push it forward or to stop it, is gambling in human lives.

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.

Modern technology Owes ecology An apology.

America's technology has turned in upon itself; its corporate form makes it the servant of profits, not the servant of human needs.

If the human race wants to go to hell in a basket, technology can help it get there by jet.

Hardware: where the people in your company's software section will tell you the problem is. Software: where the people in your company's hardware section will tell you the problem is.

A LISP programmer knows the value of everything, but the cost of nothing.

If a program is useless, it will have to be documented.

Our biggest demographic is the intelligent professional. They've got a computer on their desk, they've got a web browser and they check us out. We are many people's morning cup of coffee.

Five years ago, we thought of the Web as a new medium, not a new economy.