Technology Quotes

We're seeing how the videos translate to the live shows and how the technology is really reaching kids.

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

Software companies should take more responsibility for security holes, especially in browsers and e-mail clients. There are some straightforward things the industry should be doing right now to fix things, and I don't know why they haven't been done yet.

Bringing computers into the home won't change either one, but may revitalize the corner saloon.

High technology has done us one great service: It has retaught us the delight of performing simple and primordial tasks - chopping wood, building a fire, drawing water from a spring.

Come to think of it, there are already a million monkeys on a million typewriters, and Usenet is nothing like Shakespeare.

MS-DOS, an OS originally designed for a microprocessor that modern kitchen appliances would sneer at.

Double your drive space — delete Windows !

WWW? Nice toy, but what a waste of time.

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.

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

You can measure a programmer's perspective by noting his attitude on the continuing vitality of FORTRAN.

Unix is simple. It just takes a genius to understand its simplicity.

Encryption...is a powerful defensive weapon for free people. It offers a technical guarantee of privacy, regardless of who is running the government... It's hard to think of a more powerful, less dangerous tool for liberty.

For systems, the analogue of a face-lift is to add to the control graph an edge that creates a cycle, not just an additional node.

To understand a program you must become both the machine and the program.

If a program manipulates a large amount of data, it does so in a small number of ways.

The system of nature, of which man is a part, tends to be self-balancing, self-adjusting, self-cleansing. Not so with technology.

If you give someone a program, you will frustrate them for a day; if you teach them how to program, you will frustrate them for a lifetime.

If computers had invented humans as part of a BI program (biological intelligence), humans would have been tossed aside as barely having achieved perfect game play at Tic-Tac-Toe.

If we believe in data structures, we must believe in independent (hence simultaneous) processing. For why else would we collect items within a structure? Why do we tolerate languages that give us the one without the other?

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.

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

Not even computers will replace committees, because committees buy computers.

A computer makes it possible to do, in half an hour, tasks which were completely unnecessary to do before.