Quotes About Technology

The protean nature of the computer is such that it can act like a machine or like a language to be shaped and exploited.

I don't know how many of you have ever met Dijkstra, but you probably know that arrogance in computer science is measured in nano-Dijkstras.

People who are really serious about software should make their own hardware.

The Internet was done so well that most people think of it as a natural resource like the Pacific Ocean, rather than something that was man-made. When was the last time a technology with a scale like that was so error-free? The Web, in comparison, is a joke. The Web was done by amateurs.

In natural science, Nature has given us a world and we're just to discover its laws. In computers, we can stuff laws into it and create a world.

Television is the last technology we should be allowed to invent and put out without a surgeon general's warning.

Information tech in the era of the personal computer and network is today's equivalent of a Love Bug that not only works but creates a new image of work that allows corporate and other organizational cultures to imagine a cool new vision of themselves. Information technology, in other words, is an institutional desiring engine.

Modern technology Owes ecology An apology.

4 million volts course like lovers through her body. Eerie rays eliminate from bulbous cathodes to caress her skin penetrating deep. Also somewhat like lovers, actually. Chemicals so secret they don't even have names and bubbles and spurts in her vein.

I propose to consider the question, "Can machines think?"

Computer Science is embarrassed by the computer.

You can measure a programmer's perspective by noting his attitude on the continuing vitality of FORTRAN.

A year spent in artificial intelligence is enough to make one believe in God.

If your computer speaks English, it was probably made in Japan.

In computing, turning the obvious into the useful is a living definition of the word 'frustration'.

The computing field is always in need of new cliches.

With all the apps available on our cell phones, it seems to me we're getting closer and closer to Gene Roddenberry's vision of Starfleet tricorders.

It's a very sobering feeling to be up in space and realize that one's safety factor was determined by the lowest bidder on a government contract.

It is a very sobering feeling to be up in space and realize that one's safety factor was determined by the lowest bidder on a government contract.

The rocket worked perfectly except for landing on the wrong planet.

Perceived as an incalculable force in its own right, reified, fetishized, even demonized, the machine thus found a troubled place in the culture of the times.

Machines take me by surprise with great frequency.

We are not interested in the fact that the brain has the consistency of cold porridge.

Infine vorrei avanzare qualche congettura sulle ripercussioni che le macchine calcolatrici elettroniche digitali avranno sulla matematica. Ho già accennato al fatto che l'ACE svolgerà il lavoro di circa diecimila calcolatori umani; c'è da aspettarsi dunque che il calcolo manuale su larga scala scomparirà.