Technology Quotes

Never let a computer know you're in a hurry.

If you automate a mess, you get an automated mess.

Why is it drug addicts and computer afficionados are both called users?

Windows 95: It's like upgrading from Reagan to Bush.

For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for Nature cannot be fooled.

Bill Gates is a very rich man today... and do you want to know why? The answer is one word: versions.

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

Technology presumes there's just one right way to do things and there never is.

Technology favors horrible people.

I’ve finally learned what ‘upward compatible’ means. It means we get to keep all our old mistakes.

Computer language design is just like a stroll in the park. Jurassic Park, that is.

If GM had kept up with technology like the computer industry has, we would all be driving $25 cars that got 1000 MPG.

As network administrator I can take down the network with one keystroke. It's just like being a doctor but without getting gooky stuff on my paws.

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

Users truly don’t know what they want in a program until they use it.

Giving up on assembly language was the apple in our Garden of Eden: Languages whose use squanders machine cycles are sinful. The LISP machine now permits LISP programmers to abandon bra and fig-leaf.

There used to be this country called the Soviet Union; it's not there anymore. Our technology was better than theirs.

The only people who have anything to fear from free software are those whose products are worth even less.

America's technology has turned in upon itself; its corporate form makes it the servant of profits, not the servant of human needs.

We don’t have a traditional strategy process, planning process like you’d find in traditional technical companies. It allows Google to innovate very, very quickly, which I think is a real strength of the company.

Some things Man was never meant to know. For everything else, there's Google.

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.

These are best-of-breed computers for consumers looking for the best technology available for advanced multimedia and entertainment applications.

Like car accidents, most hardware problems are due to driver error.

One of the main causes of the fall of the Roman Empire was that–lacking zero–they had no way to indicate successful termination of their C programs.