| Quote 7 | I am sorry to say that there is too much point to the wisecrack that life is extinct on other planets because their scientists were more adv... |
| Quote 10 | Cyberspace. A consensual hallucination experienced daily by billions of legitimate operators, in every nation, by children being taught math... |
| Quote 14 | Bill Gates is a very rich man today... and do you want to know why? The answer is one word: versions. |
| Quote 53 | Civilization advances by extending the number of important operations which we can perform without thinking of them. |
| Quote 58 | Gates is the ultimate programming machine. He believes everything can be defined, examined, reduced to essentials, and rearranged into a log... |
| Quote 104 | Computing is not about computers any more. It is about living. |
| Quote 151 | Computers make it easier to do a lot of things, but most of the things they make it easier to do don't need to be done. |
| Quote 167 | Champagne, if you are seeking the truth, is better than a lie detector. It encourages a man to be expansive, even reckless, while lie detect... |
| Quote 207 | A computer once beat me at chess, but it was no match for me at kick boxing. |
| Quote 234 | Never trust a computer you can't throw out a window. |
| Quote 246 | Everybody gets so much information all day long that they lose their common sense. |
| Quote 254 | Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic. |
| Quote 266 | Doing linear scans over an associative array is like trying to club someone to death with a loaded Uzi. |
| Quote 278 | For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for Nature cannot be fooled. |
| Quote 301 | Humanity is acquiring all the right technology for all the wrong reasons. |
| Quote 371 | Globalization, as defined by rich people like us, is a very nice thing... you are talking about the Internet, you are talking about cell pho... |
| Quote 408 | Getting information off the Internet is like taking a drink from a fire hydrant. |
| Quote 458 | All of the books in the world contain no more information than is broadcast as video in a single large American city in a single year. Not a... |
| Quote 531 | For my confirmation, I didn't get a watch and my first pair of long pants, like most Lutheran boys. I got a telescope. My mother though... |
| Quote 887 | 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 fa... |
| Quote 909 | People think computers will keep them from making mistakes. They're wrong. With computers you make mistakes faster. |
| Quote 1025 | Do you realize if it weren't for Edison we'd be watching TV by candlelight? |
| Quote 1147 | I do not fear computers. I fear the lack of them. |
| Quote 1163 | Computer Science is no more about computers than astronomy is about telescopes. |
| Quote 1168 | Part of the inhumanity of the computer is that, once it is competently programmed and working smoothly, it is completely honest. |
| Quote 1215 | Computers are magnificent tools for the realization of our dreams, but no machine can replace the human spark of spirit, compassion, love, a... |
| Quote 1247 | The first rule of any technology used in a business is that automation applied to an efficient operation will magnify the efficiency. The se... |
| Quote 1325 | One machine can do the work of fifty ordinary men. No machine can do the work of one extraordinary man. |
| Quote 1403 | The computer is a moron.
- Peter Drucker |
| Quote 1484 | Congress will pass a law restricting public comment on the Internet to individuals who have spent a minimum of one hour actually accomplishi... |
| Quote 1807 | Supercomputers will achieve one human brain capacity by 2010, and personal computers will do so by about 2020. |
| Quote 2074 | The Internet: Transforming Society and Shaping the Future Through Chat. |
| Quote 2412 | The digital revolution is far more significant than the invention of writing or even of printing. |
| Quote 2623 | The good news about computers is that they do what you tell them to do. The bad news is that they do what you tell them to do. |
| Quote 3327 | I am not the only person who uses his computer mainly for the purpose of diddling with his computer. |
| Quote 4105 | I think it's fair to say that personal computers have become the most empowering tool we've ever created. They're tools of co... |
| Quote 4382 | Home computers are being called upon to perform many new functions, including the consumption of homework formerly eaten by the dog. |
| Quote 4404 | Bill Gates is the pope of the personal computer industry. He decides who's going to build. |
| Quote 4445 | Computers are useless. They can only give you answers. |
| Quote 4483 | It has become appallingly obvious that our technology has exceeded our humanity. |
| Quote 7615 | We've arranged a civilization in which most crucial elements profoundly depend on science and technology. |
| Quote 7665 | Computers are like Old Testament gods; lots of rules and no mercy. |
| Quote 7708 | Because I believe that humans are computers, I conjectured that computers, like people, can have left- and right-handed versions. |
| Quote 7737 | Technology... is a queer thing. It brings you great gifts with one hand, and it stabs you in the back with the other. |
| Quote 8114 | The Internet treats censorship as a malfunction and routes around it. |
| Quote 8218 | We're still in the first minutes of the first day of the Internet revolution. |
| Quote 8269 | I think people have a vague sense that the television system is changing. |
| Quote 8312 | Microsoft is engaging in unlawful predatory practices that go well beyond the scope of fair competition. |
| Quote 8406 | In software systems it is often the early bird that makes the worm. |
| Quote 8408 | I have an almost religious zeal... not for technology per se, but for the Internet which is for me, the nervous system of mother Earth, whic... |
| Quote 8717 | 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 ar... |
| Quote 8725 | We need a data network that can easily carry voice, instead of what we have today, a voice network struggling to carry data. |
| Quote 8768 | Television is a medium because anything well done is rare. |
| Quote 8952 | The Internet is so big, so powerful and pointless that for some people it is a complete substitute for life. |
| Quote 8999 | Inventor: A person who makes an ingenious arrangement of wheels, levers and springs, and believes it civilization. |
| Quote 9254 | It is only when they go wrong that machines remind you how powerful they are. |
| Quote 9286 | I just invent, then wait until man comes around to needing what I've invented. |
| Quote 9358 | The system of nature, of which man is a part, tends to be self-balancing, self-adjusting, self-cleansing. Not so with technology. |
| Quote 9473 | Our technological powers increase, but the side effects and potential hazards also escalate. |
| Quote 9629 | Technology has to be invented or adopted.
- Jared Diamond |
| Quote 9655 | The Internet is a telephone system that's gotten uppity. |
| Quote 9698 | Real programmers can write assembly code in any language. |
| Quote 9733 | The world is very different now. For man holds in his mortal hands the power to abolish all forms of human poverty, and all forms of human l... |
| Quote 9764 | The 'Net is a waste of time, and that's exactly what's right about it. |
| Quote 9792 | Making duplicate copies and computer printouts of things no one wanted even one of in the first place is giving America a new sense of purpo... |
| Quote 9828 | Building technical systems involves a lot of hard work and specialized knowledge: languages and protocols, coding and debugging, testing and... |
| Quote 9856 | The protean nature of the computer is such that it can act like a machine or like a language to be shaped and exploited. |
| Quote 9869 | Sites need to be able to interact in one single, universal space. |
| Quote 9884 | It's impossible to move, to live, to operate at any level without leaving traces, bits, seemingly meaningless fragments of personal inf... |
| Quote 9982 | What's sort of interesting about the whole public relations disaster that is the Net, in some ways, is that the fundamentals are really... |
| Quote 9987 | The telephone is a 100-year-old technology. It's time for a change. Charging for phone calls is something you did last century. |
| Quote 10036 | There are three roads to ruin; women, gambling and technicians. The most pleasant is with women, the quickest is with gambling, but the sure... |
| Quote 10179 | The newest computer can merely compound, at speed, the oldest problem in the relations between human beings, and in the end the communicator... |
| Quote 10199 | Defect-free software does not exist.
- William Gibson |
| Quote 10377 | The march of science and technology does not imply growing intellectual complexity in the lives of most people. It often means the opposite. |
| Quote 10406 | What new technology does is create new opportunities to do a job that customers want done. |
| Quote 10455 | Technology is making gestures precise and brutal, and with them men. |
| Quote 10631 | Technology is the knack of so arranging the world that we don't have to experience it. |
| Quote 10743 | It is questionable if all the mechanical inventions yet made have lightened the day's toil of any human being. |
| Quote 10835 | Just as we could have rode into the sunset, along came the Internet, and it tripled the significance of the PC. |
| Quote 10894 | The real problem is not whether machines think but whether men do. |
| Quote 10940 | The only thing that I'd rather own than Windows is English, because then I could charge you two hundred and forty-nine dollars for the ... |
| Quote 11015 | 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. |
| Quote 11153 | Soon silence will have passed into legend. Man has turned his back on silence. Day after day he invents machines and devices that increase n... |
| Quote 11156 | If we continue to develop our technology without wisdom or prudence, our servant may prove to be our executioner. |
| Quote 11165 | Telephone, n. An invention of the devil which abrogates some of the advantages of making a disagreeable person keep his distance. |
| Quote 11287 | 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. |
| Quote 11391 | The Linux philosophy is 'Laugh in the face of danger'. Oops. Wrong One. 'Do it yourself'. Yes, that's it. |
| Quote 11408 | Leaders have to act more quickly today. The pressure comes much faster. |
| Quote 11420 | I think it is inevitable that people program poorly. Training will not substantially help matters. We have to learn to live with it. |
| Quote 11434 | I used to think that cyberspace was fifty years away. What I thought was fifty years away, was only ten years away. And what I thought was t... |
| Quote 11468 | Microsoft isn't evil, they just make really crappy operating systems. |
| Quote 11523 | What the country needs are a few labor-making inventions. |
| Quote 11822 | People are stunned to hear that one company has data files on 185 million Americans. |
| Quote 11989 | People who are really serious about software should make their own hardware. |
| Quote 12241 | The most important and urgent problems of the technology of today are no longer the satisfactions of the primary needs or of archetypal wish... |
| Quote 12258 | Style used to be an interaction between the human soul and tools that were limiting. In the digital era, it will have to come from the soul ... |
| Quote 12537 | The internet is a great way to get on the net. |
| Quote 12591 | The research rat of the future allows experimentation without manipulation of the real world. This is the cutting edge of modeling technolog... |
| Quote 12689 | The typewriting machine, when played with expression, is no more annoying than the piano when played by a sister or near relation. |
| Quote 13006 | The Internet is the most important single development in the history of human communication since the invention of call waiting. |
| Quote 13306 | Technology is so much fun but we can drown in our technology. The fog of information can drive out knowledge. |
| Quote 13438 | Relying on the government to protect your privacy is like asking a peeping tom to install your window blinds. |
| Quote 13482 | I think complexity is mostly sort of crummy stuff that is there because it's too expensive to change the interface. |
| Quote 13764 | Technological progress has merely provided us with more efficient means for going backwards. |
| Quote 13874 | We are the children of a technological age. We have found streamlined ways of doing much of our routine work. Printing is no longer the only... |
| Quote 13943 | If it keeps up, man will atrophy all his limbs but the push-button finger. |
| Quote 14011 | Men have become the tools of their tools.
- Henry David Thoreau |
| Quote 14079 | Building one space station for everyone was and is insane: we should have built a dozen. |