Quotes on Technology
Men have become the tools of their tools.
-- Henry David ThoreauJust as we could have rode into the sunset, along came the Internet, and it tripled the significance of the PC.
-- Andy GroveLeaders have to act more quickly today. The pressure comes much faster.
-- Andy GroveLooking at the proliferation of personal web pages on the net, it looks like very soon everyone on earth will have 15 Megabytes of fame.
-- M. G. SiriamMicrosoft is a bully. Microsoft is trying to hoodwink nontechnical people.
-- Stewart AlsopModern technology
Owes ecology
An apology.
-- Alan M. EddisonOnce upon a time we were just plain people. But that was before we began having relationships with mechanical systems. Get involved with a machine and sooner or later you are reduced to a factor.
-- Ellen GoodmanOne machine can do the work of fifty ordinary men. No machine can do the work of one extraordinary man.
There are three roads to ruin; women, and technicians. The most pleasant is with women, the quickest is with , but the surest is with technicians.
-- Elbert Hubbard
-- Georges PompidouThere are two ways of constructing a software design; one way is to make it so simple that there are obviously no deficiencies, and the other way is to make it so complicated that there are no obvious deficiencies. The first method is far more difficult.
-- C. A. R. HoareMicrosoft is engaging in unlawful predatory practices that go well beyond the scope of fair competition.
-- Orrin HatchThere never was a chip, it is said, that Bill Gates couldn't slow down with a new batch of features.
-- James CoatesThrough the magic of motion pictures, someone who's never left Peoria knows the softness of a Paris spring, the color of a Nile sunset, the sorts of vegetation one will find along the upper Amazon and that Big Ben has not yet gone digital.
-- Vincent CanbyMicrosoft isn't evil, they just make really crappy operating systems.
-- Linus TorvaldsUNIVAC: a device, which contained 20,000 vacuum tubes, occupied 1,500 square feet and weighed 40 tons; there was also a laptop version weighing 27 tons.
-- Dave BarryURLs are the 800 numbers of the 1990's.
-- Chris ClarkUsenet is like a herd of performing elephants with diarrhea - massive, difficult to redirect, awe-inspiring, entertaining, and a source of mind-boggling amounts of excrement when you least expect it.
-- Gene SpaffordWe 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 PowellWe are there to serve our subscribers, not serve them up.
-- Claudia CaplanWe 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