Technology Quotes

Why do we want intelligent terminals when there are so many stupid users ?

Some people think technology has the answers.

Good programmers use their brains, but good guidelines save us having to think out every case.

The great thing about Object Oriented code is that it can make small, simple problems look like large, complex ones.

To go forward, you must backup.

How could this be a problem in a country where we have Intel and Microsoft?

Writing code has a place in the human hierarchy worth somewhere above grave robbing and beneath managing.

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

SUPERCOMPUTER: what it sounded like before you bought it.

The most important and urgent problems of the technology of today are no longer the satisfactions of primary needs or of archetypal wishes, but the reparation of the evils and damages by technology of yesterday.

Database: the information you lose when your memory crashes.

If a listener nods his head when you're explaining your program, wake him up.

A printer consists of three main parts: the case, the jammed paper tray and the blinking red light.

Technology makes the world a new place.

I still have my laptop but I haven't used it. I'm a paper man, not electronic.

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

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

AOL is like the cockroach left after the nuclear bomb hits. They know how to survive.

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

The Net interprets censorship as damage and routes around it.

Software suppliers are trying to make their software packages more ‘user-friendly’… Their best approach so far has been to take all the old brochures and stamp the words ‘user-friendly’ on the cover.

Imagination is more important than knowledge. For knowledge is limited to all we now know and understand, while imagination embraces the entire world, and all there ever will be to know and understand.

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.

If you have any trouble sounding condescending, find a Unix user to show you how it's done.

As we go forward, I hope we're going to continue to use technology to make really big differences in how people live and work.