Technology Quotes

The sooner you start coding a program, the longer it will take.

Once you understand how to write a program get someone else to write it.

The cybernetic exchange between man, computer and algorithm is like a game of musical chairs: The frantic search for balance always leaves one of the three standing ill at ease.

The science of today is the technology of tomorrow.

All of the books in the world contain no more information than is broadcast as video in a single large American city in a single year. Not all bits have equal value.

Beware of computer programmers that carry screwdrivers.

For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for Nature cannot be fooled.

Computers are magnificent tools for the realization of our dreams, but no machine can replace the human spark of spirit, compassion, love, and understanding.

The idea is that instead of going to an online retail site ... and buying a physical CD and having it shipped to you, you actually can buy the song and download the song to your computer hard drive.

Part of the inhumanity of the computer is that, once it is competently programmed and working smoothly, it is completely honest.

The technologies which have had the most profound effects on human life are usually simple.

The best thing about a boolean is even if you are wrong, you are only off by a bit.

It was a pivotal moment in the history of computers and the history of advertising.

Making something variable is easy. Controlling duration of constancy is the trick.

Well, another market is being created now out of Internet technology.

As we go forward, I hope we're going to continue to use technology to make really big differences in how people live and work.

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

NO, You cannot dial 911, I'm downloading my mail !!!

People keep asking me what I think of it now that it's done. Hence my protest: The Web is not done!

Imagine a school with children that can read or write, but with teachers who cannot, and you have a metaphor of the Information Age in which we live.

In computing, invariants are ephemeral.

Beware of the Turing tar-pit in which everything is possible but nothing of interest is easy.

The Web is like a dominatrix. Everywhere I turn, I see little buttons ordering me to Submit.

David and I and the rest of the Yahoos here really believe that the internet should remain as free as possible. At the same time we are a business and have fiscal responsibilities.

Crap... Someone knocked over my recycle bin... There's icons all over my desktop...