Technology

The nice thing about standards is that there are so many to choose from.
- Andrew S. Tannenbaum

Where is all the knowledge we lost with information?
- T.S. Elliot

The telephone wire, as we know it, has become too slow and too small to handle Internet traffic. It took 75 years for telephones to be used by 50 million customers, but it took only four years for the Internet to reach that many users.
- Lori Valigra

The real problem is not whether machines think but whether men do.
- B. F. Skinner

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.
- George Pompidou

Technology is dominated by two types of people: those who understand what they do not manage, and those who manage what they do not understand.
- Anonymous

For years there has been a theory that millions of monkeys typing at random on millions of typewriters would reproduce the entire works of Shakespeare. The Internet has proven this theory to be untrue.
- Anonymous

In the old days, people robbed stagecoaches and knocked off armored trucks. Now they're knocking off servers.
- Richard Power

If you have any trouble sounding condescending, find a Unix user to show you how it's done.
- Scott Adams

If computers get too powerful, we can organize them into a committee. That will do them in.
- Bradley's Bromide

The Internet is the Viagra of big business.
- Jack Welch, Chairman and CEO, General Electric

At some point...we must have faith in the intelligence of the end user.
- Anonymous

There are two major products that came out of Berkeley: LSD and UNIX. We don't believe this to be a coincidence.
- Jeremy S. Anderson

Any teacher that can be replaced by a computer, deserves to be.
- David Thornburg

Those parts of the system that you can hit with a hammer are called hardware; those program instructions that you can only curse at are called software.
- Anonymous

Save early, save often.
- Alwin Lee and everyone else who uses Microsoft Word

We live in a society exquisitely dependent on science and technology, in which hardly anyone knows anything about science and technology.
- Carl Sagan

If you tried to read every document on the web, then for each day's effort you would be a year further behind in your goal.
- Anonymous

There might be new technology, but technological progress itself was nothing new - and over the years it had not destroyed jobs, but created them.
- Margaret Thatcher

The most overlooked advantage to owning a computer is that if they foul up there's no law against whacking them around a little.
- Porterfield

Computers are magnificent tools for the realization of our dreams, but no machine can replace the human spark of spirit, compassion, love, and understanding.
- Louis Gerstner, CEO, IBM

Any technology that is distinguishable from magic is not sufficiently advanced.
- Gregory Benford

A year spent in artificial intelligence is enough to make one believe in God.
- Alan J. Perlis

Get your feet off my desk, get out of here, you stink, and we're not going to buy your product.
- Joe Keenan, President of Atari, in 1976 responding to Steve Jobs' offer to sell him rights to the new personal computer he and Steve Wozniak developed

Technology is like fish. The longer it stays on the shelf, the less desirable it becomes.
- Andrew Heller, IBM

AOL is like the cockroach left after the nuclear bomb hits. They know how to survive.
- Jan Horsfall, VP of marketing for Lycos

The Linux philosophy is 'Laugh in the face of danger'. Oops. Wrong One. 'Do it yourself'. Yes, that's it.
- Linus Torvalds

To be a nemesis, you have to actively try to destroy something, don't you? Really, I'm not out to destroy Microsoft. That will just be a completely unintentional side effect.
- Linus Torvalds

Windows is just DOS in drag.
- Anonymous

During my service in the United States Congress, I took the initiative in creating the Internet.
- Al Gore describing his 1986 legislation to interconnect five supercomputer centers (17 years after the first Internet servers hooked up)

If Gore invented the Internet, I invented spell-check.
- Former Vice President J. Danforth Quayle

The day I made that statement, I was tired because I'd been up all night inventing the Camcorder.
- Al Gore attempting damage control