Technology Quotes

"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"

"Gates is the ultimate programming machine. He believes everything can be defined, examined, reduced to essentials, and rearranged into a logical sequence that will achieve a particular goal"

"Defect-free software does not exist"

"I used to think that cyberspace was fifty years away. What I thought was fifty years away, was only ten years away. And what I thought was ten years away... it was already here. I just wasn't aware of it yet"

"The internet is a great way to get on the net"

"Soon silence will have passed into legend. Man has turned his back on silence. Day after day he invents machines and devices that increase noise and distract humanity from the essence of life, contemplation, meditation"

"We're still in the first minutes of the first day of the Internet revolution"

"I think it is inevitable that people program poorly. Training will not substantially help matters. We have to learn to live with it"

"I have an almost religious zeal... not for technology per se, but for the Internet which is for me, the nervous system of mother Earth, which I see as a living creature, linking up"

"All of the books in the world contain no more information than is broadcast as video in a single large American city in a single year. Not all bits have equal value"

"If we continue to develop our technology without wisdom or prudence, our servant may prove to be our executioner"

"We've arranged a civilization in which most crucial elements profoundly depend on science and technology"