Technology Quotes

Some people think technology has the answers.

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.

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

What boots up must come down.

It is a tremendous responsibility for us to have all the eyes focused on what we do and give people exactly what they need when they ask for it.

Computation has made the tree flower.

Computer : a million morons working at the speed of light.

Programmers are not to be measured by their ingenuity and their logic but by the completeness of their case analysis.

That’s the thing about people who think they hate computers. What they really hate is lousy programmers.

Every program has (at least) two purposes: the one for which it was written, and another for which it wasn't.

My understanding is their objective is to increase their capacity for the Internet, search engines. All I know is there's a lot of computers.

Anyone who spends their life on a computer is pretty unusual.

From then on, when anything went wrong with a computer, we said it had bugs in it.

They say if you play a Microsoft CD backwards, you hear satanic messages. Thats nothing, cause if you play it forwards, it installs Windows.

We will create a civilization of the Mind in Cyberspace. May it be more humane and fair than the world your governments have made before.

The Internet? Is that thing still around?

The Internet is not just one thing, it's a collection of things - of numerous communications networks that all speak the same digital language.

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.

Structured Programming supports the law of the excluded muddle.

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

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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.

Optimism is an occupational hazard of programming; feedback is the treatment.

If you have a procedure with ten parameters, you probably missed some.

Efforts to protect critical computer networks have unfortunately not kept pace with the march of technology.