Technology Quotes

The use of a program to prove the 4-color theorem will not change mathematics - it merely demonstrates that the theorem, a challenge for a century, is probably not important to mathematics.

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

In English every word can be verbed. Would that it were so in our programming languages.

Computers have lots of memory but no imagination.

It is the user who should parameterize procedures, not their creators.

Education makes machines which act like men and produces men who act like machines.

The Internet: where men are men, women are men, and children are FBI agents.

Software is like sex: It’s better when it’s free.

Think of all the psychic energy expended in seeking a fundamental distinction between "algorithm" and "program".

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

Re graphics: A picture is worth 10K words - but only those to describe the picture. Hardly any sets of 10K words can be adequately described with pictures.

Everyone can be taught to sculpt: Michelangelo would have had to be taught not to. So it is with great programmers.

They're growing at three to four times the personal computer market.

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

You can try to control people, or you can try to have a system that represents reality. I find that knowing what's really happening is more important than trying to control people.

One good reason why computers can do more work than people is that they never have to stop and answer the phone.

[Smart] is an elusive concept. There's a certain sharpness, an ability to absorb new facts. To ask an insightful question. To relate to domains that may not seem connected at first. A certain creativity that allows people to be effective.

Grove giveth and Gates taketh away.

To iterate is human, to recurse divine.

We've arranged a civilization in which most crucial elements profoundly depend on science and technology.

Beware of computer programmers that carry screwdrivers.

It is the framework which changes with each new technology and not just the picture within the frame.

Some people think technology has the answers.

I just bought a Mac to help me design the next Cray.

All of the biggest technological inventions created by man - the airplane, the automobile, the computer - says little about his intelligence, but speaks volumes about his laziness.