Famous Technology Quotes

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"What the country needs are a few labor-making inventions"

Arnold H. Glasow, Businessman

"Microsoft isn't evil, they just make really crappy operating systems"

Linus Torvalds, Businessman

"Do you realize if it weren't for Edison we'd be watching TV by candlelight?"

Al Boliska, Writer

"Building one space station for everyone was and is insane: we should have built a dozen"

Larry Niven, Writer

"If it keeps up, man will atrophy all his limbs but the push-button finger"

Frank Lloyd Wright, Architect

"Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic"

Arthur C. Clarke, Writer

"Civilization advances by extending the number of important operations which we can perform without thinking of them"

Alfred North Whitehead, Mathematician

"Doing linear scans over an associative array is like trying to club someone to death with a loaded Uzi"

Larry Wall, Author

"For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for Nature cannot be fooled"

Richard P. Feynman, Physicist

"People are stunned to hear that one company has data files on 185 million Americans"

Ralph Nader, Lawyer

"Everybody gets so much information all day long that they lose their common sense"

Gertrude Stein, Author

"I am sorry to say that there is too much point to the wisecrack that life is extinct on other planets because their scientists were more advanced than ours"

John F. Kennedy, President

"I just invent, then wait until man comes around to needing what I've invented"

R. Buckminster Fuller, Inventor

"Humanity is acquiring all the right technology for all the wrong reasons"

R. Buckminster Fuller, Inventor

"Sites need to be able to interact in one single, universal space"

Tim Berners-Lee, Inventor

"Globalization, as defined by rich people like us, is a very nice thing... you are talking about the Internet, you are talking about cell phones, you are talking about computers. This doesn't affect two-thirds of the people of the world"

Jimmy Carter, President

"We will create a civilization of the Mind in Cyberspace. May it be more humane and fair than the world your governments have made before"

John Perry Barlow, Writer

"The Internet treats censorship as a malfunction and routes around it"

John Perry Barlow, Writer

"Relying on the government to protect your privacy is like asking a peeping tom to install your window blinds"

John Perry Barlow, Writer

"We are as much moving into a software age as we moved into an iron age"

Whitfield Diffie, Scientist

"We take our cultural machinery and are moving that into the Internet"

Whitfield Diffie, Scientist

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

Alan Kay, Scientist

"Congress will pass a law restricting public comment on the Internet to individuals who have spent a minimum of one hour actually accomplishing a specific task while on line"

Andy Grove, Businessman

"Our technological powers increase, but the side effects and potential hazards also escalate"

Alvin Toffler, Author

"What's sort of interesting about the whole public relations disaster that is the Net, in some ways, is that the fundamentals are really good"

Meg Whitman, Businessman

"Style used to be an interaction between the human soul and tools that were limiting. In the digital era, it will have to come from the soul alone"

Jaron Lanier, Artist

"Real programmers can write assembly code in any language"

Larry Wall, Author

"I think people have a vague sense that the television system is changing"

Michael K. Powell, Politician

"The most important and urgent problems of the technology of today are no longer the satisfactions of the primary needs or of archetypal wishes, but the reparation of the evils and damages by the technology of yesterday"

Dennis Gabor, Scientist

"The Internet is a telephone system that's gotten uppity"

Clifford Stoll, Author

"What new technology does is create new opportunities to do a job that customers want done"

Tim O'Reilly

"I think complexity is mostly sort of crummy stuff that is there because it's too expensive to change the interface"

Jaron Lanier, Artist

"Building technical systems involves a lot of hard work and specialized knowledge: languages and protocols, coding and debugging, testing and refactoring"

Jesse James Garrett, Businessman

"Bill Gates is a very rich man today... and do you want to know why? The answer is one word: versions"

Dave Barry, Author

"For my confirmation, I didn't get a watch and my first pair of long pants, like most Lutheran boys. I got a telescope. My mother thought it would make the best gift"

Wernher von Braun, Scientist

"We are the children of a technological age. We have found streamlined ways of doing much of our routine work. Printing is no longer the only way of reproducing books. Reading them, however, has not changed"

Lawrence Clark Powell

"In software systems it is often the early bird that makes the worm"

Alan Perlis, Scientist

"There are three roads to ruin; women, gambling and technicians. The most pleasant is with women, the quickest is with gambling, but the surest is with technicians"

Georges Pompidou, Statesman

"Champagne, if you are seeking the truth, is better than a lie detector. It encourages a man to be expansive, even reckless, while lie detectors are only a challenge to tell lies successfully"

Graham Greene, Playwright

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