Technology Quotes

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

A complex system that works is invariably found to have evolved from a simple system that worked.

The US Nuclear Security Administration runs the Blue Gene supercomputer. It is supposed to be the top super computer in the world ? and it runs on GNU Linux. Of the top 10 super computers in the world, seven run on GNU Linux. From a security point of view, there is a case to be made.

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

The Internet is the end of civilizations, cultures, interests and ethics.

I had a fortune cookie the other day and it said: 'Outlook not so good'. I said: 'Sure, but Microsoft ships it anyway'.

Bill Gates is a very rich man today... and do you want to know why? The answer is one word: versions.

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.

Almost everybody today believes that nothing in economic history has ever moved as fast as, or had a greater impact than, the Information Revolution. But the Industrial Revolution moved at least as fast in the same time span, and had probably an equal impact if not a greater one.

Pixar is the most technically advanced creative company; Apple is the most creatively advanced technical company.

Windows isn't a virus, viruses do something.

Technology is a way of organizing the universe so that man doesn't have to experience it.

We've heard that a million monkeys at a keyboard could produce the Complete Works of Shakespeare; now, thanks to the Internet, we know this is not true.

For a list of all the ways technology has failed to improve the quality of life, please press three.

In a world without walls and fences, who needs Windows and Gates ?

Los Angeles County officials have asked that manufacturers, suppliers and contractors stop using the terms 'master' and 'slave' regarding computer hard drives, saying such terms are unacceptable and offensive. Additionally, the term 'e-mail' will now be called 'e-person letter', 'dumb terminals' will now be 'CPU-challenged monitors' and 'Unix' will be referred to as 'sexually dysfunctional operating system'. Obviously, 'fingering' is now banned entirely.

If I have seen further it is by standing on the shoulders of giants.

Computers can now keep a man's every transgression recorded in a permanent memory bank, duplicating with complex programming and intricate wiring a feat his wife handles quite well without fuss or fanfare.

Because of its vitality, the computing field is always in desperate need of new cliches: Banality soothes our nerves.

Every day were saying, 'How can we keep this customer happy?' How can we get ahead in innovation by doing this, because if we don't, somebody else will.

So many good ideas are never heard from again once they embark in a voyage on the semantic gulf.

The factory of the future will have only two employees, a man and a dog. The man will be there to feed the dog. The dog will be there to keep the man from touching the equipment.

The Internet? Is that thing still around?

Inside every small program is a large program struggling to get out.

Computers make it easier to do a lot of things, but most of the things they make it easier to do don't need to be done.