Technology Quotes - Page 5

• All the new media are art forms which have the power of imposing, like poetry, their own assumptions.

  Marshall McLuhan

  Art, Media, Assumption

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• Microsoft isn't evil, they just make really crappy operating systems.

  Linus Torvalds

  Evil, Microsoft, Linux

  Linus Torvalds‏ @Linus__Torvalds, twitter.com. January 29, 2013.

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  Measuring programming progress by lines of code is like measuring aircraft building progress by weight.

  Bill Gates

  Success, Trust, Leadership

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• To err is human, but to really foul things up you need a computer.

  Paul R. Ehrlich

  Inspirational, Funny, Witty

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• A distributed system is one in which the failure of a computer you didn't even know existed can render your own computer unusable.

  Leslie Lamport

  Failure, Computer, Programming

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• The most important and urgent problems of the technology of today are no longer the satisfactions of the primary needs or of archetypal wishes, but the reparation of the evils and damages by technology of yesterday.

  Dennis Gabor

  Science, Yesterday, Evil

  1970 Innovations.

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• Cyberspace. A consensual hallucination experienced daily by billions of legitimate operators, in every nation, by children being taught mathematical concepts.

  William Gibson

  Children, Cyberspace, Hallucinations

  1984 Neuromancer. This is the first recorded use of the term 'cyberspace'.

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• First we thought the PC was a calculator. Then we found out how to turn numbers into letters with ASCII — and we thought it was a typewriter. Then we discovered graphics, and we thought it was a television. With the World Wide Web, we've realized it's a brochure.

  Douglas Adams

  Typewriters, Discovery, Numbers

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

  E. F. Schumacher

  Men, Self, Adjusting

  E.F. Schumacher (1975). “Small is Beautiful”

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• I just invent, then wait until man comes around to needing what I've invented.

  R. Buckminster Fuller

  Men, Waiting, Inventing

  1964 On his innovative geodesic domes. In Time, 10 Jun.

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• The newest computer can merely compound, at speed, the oldest problem in the relations between human beings, and in the end the communicator will be confronted with the old problem, of what to say and how to say it.

  Edward R. Murrow

  Communication, Language, Computer

  On receiving the "Family of Man" Award, 1964.

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• Technology is just a tool. In terms of getting the kids working together and motivating them, the teacher is the most important.

  Bill Gates

  Success, Leadership, Teacher

  1997 In the Independent on Sunday, 12 Oct.

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• The march of science and technology does not imply growing intellectual complexity in the lives of most people. It often means the opposite.

  Thomas Sowell

  Mean, Opposites, People

  Thomas Sowell (1996). “Knowledge And Decisions”, p.10, Basic Books

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• Our inventions are wont to be pretty toys, which distract our attention from serious things. They are but improved means to an unimproved end.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Mean, Toys, Serious

  Walden ch. 1 (1854)

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• The typewriting machine, when played with expression, is no more annoying than the piano when played by a sister or near relation.

  Oscar Wilde

  Funny, Sister, Sarcastic

  Oscar Wilde, Harford Montgomery Hyde (1982). “The annotated Oscar Wilde”

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• I get mail; therefore I am.

  Scott Adams

  Humor, Mail, Internet

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• Television is a medium because anything well done is rare.

  Fred Allen

  Funny, Humor, Done

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• During my eighty-seven years I have witnessed a whole succession of technological revolutions. But none of them has done away with the need for character in the individual or the ability to think.

  Bernard Baruch

  Character, Thinking, Years

  Bernard Mannes Baruch (1970). “Baruch: My own story”

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• Just because something doesn't do what you planned it to do doesn't mean it's useless.

  Thomas A. Edison

  Positive, Mean Girls, Funny Inspirational

  "Artifacts : An Archaeologist's Year in Silicon Valley". Book by Christine Finn, 2001.

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• Defect-free software does not exist.

  Wietse Venema

  Doe, Software, Defects

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• To create a new standard it takes something that's not just a little bit different. It takes something that's really new and really captures people's imagination. And the Macintosh, of all the machines I've ever seen, is the only one that meets that standard.

  Bill Gates

  People, Imagination, Different

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• Civilization advances by extending the number of important operations which we can perform without thinking of them.

  Alfred North Whitehead

  Thinking, Civilization, Numbers

  An Introduction to Mathematics ch. 5 (1911)

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• My favorite thing about the Internet is that you get to go into the private world of real creeps without having to smell them.

  Penn Jillette

  Inspirational, Real, Smell

  "Thoughts On the Business of Life". "Forbes" Magazine, November 12, 2007.

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• If you have any trouble sounding condescending, find a Unix user to show you how it's done.

  Scott Adams

  Done, Condescension And, Computer

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• Technology is making gestures precise and brutal, and with them men.

  Theodor Adorno

  Men, Gestures, Brutal

  Theodor W. Adorno, E. F. N. Jephcott (2005). “Minima Moralia: Reflections on a Damaged Life”, p.40, Verso

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