Quotes About Progress

Communications are better now than in my Vietnam days.

We've witnessed so many revolutions in our society. Think of transportation, photography, or communications. Things once unimaginable have become seemingly impossible to live without.

If you look at how many thousands and thousands of pages, Web pages, are being added to the Internet every day, it's the fastest growing organism in human history for communications.

If quantum communication and quantum computation are to flourish, a new information theory will have to be developed.

Nothing could be more absurd than an experiment in which computers are placed in a classroom where nothing else is changed.

Nothing is destroyed until it is replaced.

The danger of computers becoming like humans is not as great as the danger of humans becoming like computers.

I had a running compiler and nobody would touch it. They told me computers could only do arithmetic.

Name anything - high-definition TV, computer obsolescence - and I'm pretty much annoyed by it.

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

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

Computer programs are the most complex things that humans make.

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

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

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

Computers show up everywhere except the growth statistics.

We used to have lots of questions to which there were no answers. Now, with the computer, there are lots of answers to which we haven't thought up questions.

Competition is always a fantastic thing, and the computer industry is intensely competitive.

We build our computer (systems) the way we build our cities: over time, without a plan, on top of ruins

The computer is really like a pencil, you know. It used to be. The pencil can do anything you want to, but you have to do it, and the same is with the computer.

You'll see more and more perfection of that - computer as servant. But the next thing is going to be computer as a guide or agent.

If, for some reason, we make some big mistake and IBM wins, my personal feeling is that we are going to enter a computer Dark Ages for about twenty years.

In nine months, a group of children left alone with a computer in any language will reach the same standard as an office secretary in the West.

Computers are merely ingenious devices to fulfill unimportant functions. The computer revolution is an explosion of nonsense.