Quotes About Technology

Arthur Clarke once remarked that the best technology was indistinguishable from magic.

still working hard at Google, even though they had the wealth of Saudi princes.

But mostly people hacked Tools to Make Tools. Or games. And they would come into computer stores to show off their hacks.

Zuckerberg hadn't approached Thefacebook that way. He was building something that he wanted for himself, and people were naturally flocking to it. That had been the story of the giants of tech—Apple, eBay, Yahoo!, Google.

There is nothing more frustrating to a hacker than to see an extension to a system and not be able to keep hands-on.

Even when zeroing in on privacy, they showboated.

Hackers believe that essential lessons can be learned about the systems—about the world—from taking things apart, seeing how they work, and using this knowledge to create new and even more interesting things. They resent any person, physical barrier, or law that tries to keep them from doing this.

hackerese pejorative.

Google did, however, eventually say that it is the largest computer manufacturer in the world—making its own servers requires it to build more units every year than the industry giants HP, Dell, and Lenovo.

Hacker Ethic: like lines of code in a systems program, compromise should be bummed to the minimum.

But people did not warm to Beacon. Instead, they began thinking for the first time that this fun thing called Facebook was something that maybe they could not trust.

From their point of view, it seemed to indicate another hacker sin — inefficiency.

When computers are sold like toasters, programs will be sold like toothpaste.

but by and large ITS proved that the best security was no security at all.

In their view, hacking would be better served by using the best system possible.

A large key is not a guarantee of security," says Hellman, "but a small key is a guarantee of insecurity.

A computer gives the average person, a high school freshman, the power to do things in a week that all the mathematicians who ever lived until thirty years ago couldn't do.

Epstein came up with an elaborate plan, including TV ads, and presented it to the board. The board rejected it. "It really came down to this," McCaffrey later said. "We have a limited budget. Do we want to put that money into the technology, into the infrastructure, into hiring really great people? Or do we want to blow it on a marketing campaign that we can't measure?" Larry and Sergey told Epstein that his interim stint was over

She noted the lack of female hardware hackers, and was enraged at the male hacker obsession with technological play and power.

To hackers, a program was an organic entity that had a life independent from that of its author.

toxic addictiveness... news feed and other "infinite scrolls" the worst offenders..

Because to hackers, passwords were even more odious than locked doors.

Inherently, Larry & Serge aren't paper-oriented - they're product oriented. If they have another 10 minutes, they want to make something better. They don't want to take 10 minutes to tell you something they did. - Terry Winograd

to absorb, explore, and expand the intricacies of those bewitching systems;