Technology Quotes

Microsoft has a new version out, Windows XP, which according to everybody is the ‘most reliable Windows ever.‘ To me, this is like saying that asparagus is ‘the most articulate vegetable ever.

The attention span of a computer is only as long as its electrical cord.

The bulk of all patents are crap. Spending time reading them is stupid. It’s up to the patent owner to do so, and to enforce them.

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

Life is about family and technology.

Structured Programming supports the law of the excluded muddle.

I would love to change the world, but they won't give me the source code.

In seeking the unattainable, simplicity only gets in the way.

The computer is the most extraordinary of man's technological clothing; it's an extension of our central nervous system. Beside it, the wheel is a mere hula-hoop.

Spending an evening on the World Wide Web is much like sitting down to a dinner of Cheetos, two hours later your fingers are yellow and you're no longer hungry, but you haven't been nourished.

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.

Computers are useless. They can only give you answers.

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

Efforts to protect critical computer networks have unfortunately not kept pace with the march of technology.

Part of the inhumanity of the computer is that, once it is competently programmed and working smoothly, it is completely honest.

I wish life had an Undo function.

Computation has made the tree flower.

If we continue to develop our technology without wisdom or prudence, our servant may prove to be our executioner.

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

Computers, huh? I've heard it all boils down to just a bunch of ones and zeroes.... I don't know how that enables me to see naked women, but however it works, God bless you guys.

The telephone wire, as we know it, has become too slow and too small to handle Internet traffic. It took 75 years for telephones to be used by 50 million customers, but it took only four years for the Internet to reach that many users.

The Star Trek computer doesn't seem that interesting. They ask it random questions, it thinks for a while. I think we can do better than that.

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

Documentation is like term insurance: It satisfies because almost no one who subscribes to it depends on its benefits.

The cybernetic exchange between man, computer and algorithm is like a game of musical chairs: The frantic search for balance always leaves one of the three standing ill at ease.