Technology Quotes

Symmetry is a complexity-reducing concept (co-routines include subroutines); seek it everywhere.

Technology without hatred can be a blessing. Technology with hatred is always a disaster.

The ultimate search engine would basically understand everything in the world, and it would always give you the right thing. And we're a long, long ways from that.

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

It's hard for us in our stores to be a leader in technology.

The computer programmer is a creator of universes for which he alone is responsible. Universes of virtually unlimited complexity can be created in the form of computer programs.

Unix is simple. It just takes a genius to understand its simplicity.

I used to think that cyberspace was fifty years away. What I thought was fifty years away, was only ten years away. And what I thought was ten years away... it was already here. I just wasn't aware of it yet.

Come to think of it, there are already a million monkeys on a million typewriters, and Usenet is nothing like Shakespeare.

Be nice to nerds. Chances are you'll end up working for one.

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.

Unix was not designed to stop you from doing stupid things, because that would also stop you from doing clever things.

Technology happens, it's not good, it's not bad. Is steel good or bad?

There's a whole kind of hip element to it -- now I need this. Right smack in the middle of the 21st century, sophistication is marrying itself to a very old-fashioned notion of a table where you play games, long before television, video games and home computers. The deck of cards now has become cool again.

It is only when they go wrong that machines remind you how powerful they are.

If future generations are to remember us more with gratitude than sorrow, we must achieve more than just the miracles of technology. We must also leave them a glimpse of the world as it was created, not just as it looked when we got through with it.

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

Mac users swear by their computers. PC users swear at their computers.

Ever notice how fast Windows runs ? — Neither did I.

Of course, the best way to get accurate information on Usenet is to post something wrong and wait for corrections.

My computer must be broken: whenever I ask a wrong question, it gives a wrong answer.

You will not even have enough time to go online and download all the patches to your computer before it is infected.

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.

Microsoft: "You've got questions. We've got dancing paperclips."

Technology is just a tool. In terms of getting the kids working together and motivating them, the teacher is the most important.