Famous Technology Quotes

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

"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"

Dan Millman, Author

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

Linus Torvalds, Businessman

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

Larry Wall, Author

"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

"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

"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

"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

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

Gertrude Stein, Author

"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

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

Dave Barry, Author

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

Tim Berners-Lee, Inventor

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

Omar N. Bradley, Soldier

"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

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

Alvin Toffler, Author

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

John Perry Barlow, Writer

"Real programmers can write assembly code in any language"

Larry Wall, Author

"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

"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

"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

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

Alan Perlis, Scientist

"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

"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

"Defect-free software does not exist"

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

Alan Perlis, Scientist

"Cyberspace. A consensual hallucination experienced daily by billions of legitimate operators, in every nation, by children being taught mathematical concepts"

William Gibson, Writer

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