Technology Quotes

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.

Three things are certain: Death, taxes, and lost data. Guess which has occurred.

Technology is a gift of God. After the gift of life it is perhaps the greatest of God's gifts. It is the mother of civilizations, of arts and of sciences.

The Net interprets censorship as damage and routes around it.

That’s the thing about people who think they hate computers. What they really hate is lousy programmers.

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C++ : Where friends have access to your private members.

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

The Linux philosophy is "Laugh in the face of danger". Oops. Wrong One. "Do it yourself". Yes, that's it.

Any significant boost in technology could just as easily be a rigged demo.

The eleventh commandment was "Thou Shalt Compute" or "Thou Shalt Not Compute" - I forget which.

It is not a language's weakness but its strengths that control the gradient of its change: Alas, a language never escapes its embryonic sac.

When we write programs that "learn", it turns out that we do and they don't.

If future generations are to remember us more with gratitude than sorrow, we must achieve more than just the miracles of technology. We must also leave them a glimpse of the world as it was created, not just as it looked when we got through with it.

The best museums and museum exhibits about science or technology give you the feeling that, hey, this is interesting, but maybe I could do something here, too.

Technology... is a queer thing. It brings you great gifts with one hand, and it stabs you in the back with the other.

The most important computer is the one that rages in our skulls and ever seeks that satisfactory external emulator. The standarization of real computers would be a disaster - and so it probably won't happen.

I think it's fair to say that personal computers have become the most empowering tool we've ever created. They're tools of communication, they're tools of creativity, and they can be shaped by their user.

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

A programmer is a person who passes as an exacting expert on the basis of being able to turn out, after innumerable punching, an infinite series of incomprehensive answers calculated with micrometric precisions from vague assumptions based on debatable figures taken from inconclusive documents and carried out on instruments of problematical accuracy by persons of dubious reliability and questionable mentality for the avowed purpose of annoying and confounding a hopelessly defenseless department that was unfortunate enough to ask for the information in the first place.

My understanding is their objective is to increase their capacity for the Internet, search engines. All I know is there's a lot of computers.

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

A computer lets you make more mistakes faster than any invention in human history - with the possible exceptions of handguns and tequila.

Everyone has a right to a university degree in America, even if it's in Hamburger Technology.

There is so much media now with the Internet and people, and so easy and so cheap to start a newspaper or start a magazine, there’s just millions of voices and people want to be heard.