Quotes About Technology

Every street light will be interconnected to the Internet because we can save when car is not passing. Automobile will all be connected, so driverless car much safer.

It is extremely obvious to me that the internet is a religious phenomenon

Who needs bread crumbs," Dan replied, "when you have GPS?

We've spent a half-century believing that people should become computer literate. That's precisely backward. Computing should become human literate.

The real agent of change is not computers per se but rather the computation that we are installing into even the most mundane constituents of our everyday surroundings. As we have seen, we are at the point that it is now often cheaper to manufacture digital information processing into an object than it to leave it out. Microelectronics permit even trivial products to be deeply complex and connectible—and that is both the promise and the problem. That

Today's so-called cloud isn't really a cloud at all. It's a bunch of corporate dirigibles painted to look like clouds. You can tell they're fake because they all have logos on them. The real cloud wouldn't have a logo. Once

The image produced by the scope was wonderfully sharp, but also extremely narrow,

Banks felt more alone and further away for having just talked to Sophia than he had before her call. But it was always like that - the telephone might bring you together for a few moments, but there's nothing like it for emphasising distance.

Windows NT crashed. I am the Blue Screen of Death. No one hears your screams.

If these devices appear in large enough numbers, it could mean the end of the electric grid that underlies industrial civilization. Homes would still be connected, but the nature of interconnection would change and economics of location would be different.

But in the meantime there's no reason to starve the users for [syntactic] sugar. It doesn't rot their teeth and it helps them avoid mistakes. — Brendan Eich

Ironically, as a result of his move to the country, Cosell- one of the fathers of the Internet-now has only dial-up access from his home.

Because we were so smart and we had so much experience. We had it wired. Couldn't miss. Programmers are optimistic. And we have to be because if we weren't optimists we couldn't do this work. Which is why we fall prey to things like second systems, why we can't schedule our projects, why this stuff is so hard.

I think it's not an accident that we often use the imagery of magic to describe programming. We speak of computing wizards and we think of things happening by magic or automagically. And I think that's because being able to get a machine to do what you want is the closest thing we've got in technology to adolescent wish-fulfillment.

Nobody, at least on the Unix side, had any idea they wanted it yet. Everyone uses them now but we had to spend a lot of time explaining to people why this was better than vi and GCC.

The most depressing thing about life as a programmer, I think, is if you're faced with a chunk of code that either someone else wrote or, worse still, you wrote yourself but you no longer dare to modify. That's depressing.

As your confidence in the API increases, then you flesh it out. But the fundamental rule is, write the code that uses the API before you write the code that implements it.

Things have gotten faster but the software has gotten slower and buggier in the meantime.

I think it is always going to be true that a person who manages programmers should not expect it to be predictable.

When they realize, "Oh, my program's getting gigantic," what are they going to do? They're not going to know where to start. That's my first instinct because I'm a caveman. Really that probably doesn't even matter because you'll just throw more memory at it and it'll be fine.

The Web is broken and we need to fix it.

Moore's law doesn't apply to batteries. So how much time we're wasting in interpreting stuff really matters there. The cycles count.

He knows no physics or engineering to make the world real to him… no paintings to show him how others have enjoyed it… no music except television jingles… no history except tales from a desperate mother… no friends to give him a joke or make him know himself more moderately. He's a modern citizen for whom society doesn't exist.

I'll give him the good Normal world where we're tethered beside them - blinking our nights away in a non-stop drench of cathode-ray over our shrivelling heads!