Notable Technology Quotes
It may not always be profitable at first for businesses to be online, but it is certainly going to be unprofitable not to be online.
Esther Dyson
"There is no reason anyone would want a computer in their home."
Ken Olson, president, chairman and founder of Digital Equipment Corp., 1977
640K ought to be enough for anybody.
Bill Gates in 1981
If it keeps up, man will atrophy all his limbs but the push-button finger.
Frank Lloyd Wright
The computer programmer is a creator of universes for which he alone is responsible. Universes of virtually unlimited complexity can be created in the form of computer programs.
Joseph Weizenbaum
A friend called me up the other day and talked about investing in a dot-com that sells lobsters. Internet lobsters. Where will this end? The next day he sent me a huge package of lobsters on ice. How low can you stoop?
Donald Trump
Civilization advances by extending the number of important operations which we can perform without thinking of them.
Alfred North Whitehead
Real programmers can write assembly code in any language.
Larry Wall
Doing linear scans over an associative array is like trying to club someone to death with a loaded Uzi.
Larry Wall
We will create a civilization of the Mind in Cyberspace. May it be more humane and fair than the world your governments have made before.
John Perry Barlow
The real problem is not whether machines think but whether men do.
B. F. Skinner
There are two ways of constructing a software design; one way is to make it so simple that there are obviously no deficiencies, and the other way is to make it so complicated that there are no obvious deficiencies. The first method is far more difficult.
C. A. R. Hoare
The best way to predict the future is to invent it.
Alan Kay
Looking at the proliferation of personal web pages on the net, it looks like very soon everyone on earth will have 15 Megabytes of fame.
M. G. Siriam
Correct me if I'm wrong - the gizmo is connected to the flingflang connected to the watzis, watzis connected to the doo-dad connected to the ding dong.
Patrick B. Oliphant
The best way to predict the future is to invent it.
Alan Kay
I think computer viruses should count as life. I think it says something about human nature that the only form of life we have created so far is purely destructive. We've created life in our own image.
Stephen W. Hawking
The first rule of any technology used in a business is that automation applied to an efficient operation will magnify the efficiency. The second is that automation applied to an inefficient operation will magnify the inefficiency.
Bill Gates
A complex system that works is invariably found to have evolved from a simple system that worked.
John Gall
URLs are the 800 numbers of the 1990's.
Chris Clark
The Internet is not just one thing, it's a collection of things - of numerous communications networks that all speak the same digital language.
Jim Clark
The difference between e-mail and regular mail is that computers handle e-mail, and computers never decide to come to work one day and shoot all the other computers.
Jamais Cascio
Beware of computer programmers that carry screwdrivers.
Leonard Brandwein
I think there is a world market for maybe five computers.
Thomas Watson (1874-1956), Chairman of IBM, 1943
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