Quotes About Technology

Computers can do better than ever what needn't be done at all. Making sense is still a human monopoly.

C is quirky, flawed, and an enormous success.

I am cursed with computers; something always goes wrong.

Memory has always been social. Now we're using search engines and computers to augment our memories, too.

The guitar is a much more efficient machine than a computer. More responsive.

If you spend more on coffee than on IT security, you will be hacked. What's more, you deserve to be hacked.

The only legitimate use of a computer is to play games.

Software is a gas; it expands to fill its container.

Computer programs are the most complex things that humans make.

I look like a geeky hacker but I don't know anything about computers.

You can see the computer age everywhere but in the productivity statistics.

The computer was born to solve problems that did not exist before.

Machines that fit the human environment, instead of forcing humans to enter theirs, will make using a computer as refreshing as taking a walk in the woods.

A computer does not substitute for judgment any more than a pencil substitutes for literacy. But writing without a pencil is no particular advantage.

Fame means when your computer modem is broken, the repair guy comes out to your house a little faster.

I started on an Apple II, which I had bought at the very end of 1978 for half of my annual income. I made $4,500 a year, and I spent half of it on the computer.

It's equally hard and labor intensive to create an image on the computer as it is in a darkroom. Believe me.

In OK Computer, the guitar was already moving towards a tone generator as well as a riff generator.

For every door the computers have closed they have opened a new one.

The only reason in the world that I bought a computer was to look up UFO sites.

Computers are not good or bad; they are powerful.

Everybody in this country should learn how to program a computer, because it teaches you how to think.

If you think about computer programming, it's as antisocial as it gets.

My dream was actually just to have a computer some day. If I'd imagined that it meant starting a company to sell them, I probably would have avoided the whole thing.