Technology Quotes

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

"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"

"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"

"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"