"The march of science and technology does not imply growing intellectual complexity in the lives of most people. It often means the opposite."

"The computer reminds one of Lon Chaney -- it is the machine of a thousand faces."

"Computers in the future may have only 1,000 vacuum tubes and perhapsonly weigh 1 1/2 tons."

"It is a commonplace of modern technology that problems have solutions before there is knowledge of how they are to be solved."

"If we had had the right technology back then, you would have seen Eva Braun on the Donahue show and Adolf Hitler on Meet the Press."

"It is not the computer's fault that Maxwell's equations are not adequate to design the electric motor."

"Some say Google is God. Others say Google is Satan. But if they think Google is too powerful, remember that with search engines unlike other companies, all it takes is a single click to go to another search engine."

"Once a new technology rolls over you, if you're not part of the steamroller, you're part of the road."

"It is easier to change the specification to fit the program than vice versa."

"Measuring programming progress by lines of code is like measuring aircraft building progress by weight."