Technology Quotes

"Our inventions are wont to be pretty toys, which distract our attention from serious things."

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

Carl Sagan

"It's supposed to be automatic, but actually you have to push this button."

John Brunner

"The most technologically efficient machine that man has ever invented is the book."

Northrop Frye

"Programs must be written for people to read, and only incidentally for machines to execute."

Harold Abelson

"First, solve the problem. Then, write the code."

John Johnson

"Talk is cheap. Show me the code."

Linus Torvalds

"Software is eating the world."

Marc Andreessen

"Measuring programming progress by lines of code is like measuring aircraft building progress by weight."

Bill Gates

"Simplicity is prerequisite for reliability."

Edsger W. Dijkstra

"The question of whether a computer can think is no more interesting than the question of whether a submarine can swim."

Edsger W. Dijkstra

"We can only see a short distance ahead, but we can see plenty there that needs to be done."

Alan Turing

"The most dangerous phrase in the language is, 'We've always done it this way.'"

Grace Hopper

"It's easier to ask forgiveness than it is to get permission."

Grace Hopper

"That brain of mine is something more than merely mortal; as time will show."

"The Analytical Engine weaves algebraic patterns just as the Jacquard loom weaves flowers and leaves."

"Science is a beautiful gift to humanity; we should not distort it."

"We must be second to none in the application of advanced technologies to the real problems of man and society."

Vikram Sarabhai

"Our industry does not respect tradition – it only respects innovation."

Satya Nadella

"AI is probably the most important thing humanity has ever worked on. I think of it as something more profound than electricity or fire."

Sundar Pichai

"No power is as costly as no power."

Homi J. Bhabha

"We will make electricity so cheap that only the rich will burn candles."

Thomas Edison

"Technology giveth and technology taketh away."

Neil Postman

"Technology is anything that wasn't around when you were born."

Alan Kay

"Technology challenges us to assert our human values."

Sherry Turkle