Technology Quotes

"Technology is just a tool. In terms of getting the kids working together and motivating them, the teacher is the most important."

Bill Gates

"The Internet is the first thing that humanity has built that humanity doesn't understand, the largest experiment in anarchy that we have ever had."

Eric Schmidt

"The computer is incredibly fast, accurate, and stupid. Man is incredibly slow, inaccurate, and brilliant. The marriage of the two is a force beyond calculation."

Leo Cherne

"Information technology and business are becoming inextricably interwoven."

Bill Gates

"Never trust a computer you can't throw out a window."

Steve Wozniak

"The good news about computers is that they do what you tell them to do. The bad news is that they do what you tell them to do."

Ted Nelson

"To err is human, but to really foul things up you need a computer."

Paul R. Ehrlich

"The Internet is so big, so powerful and pointless that for some people it is a complete substitute for life."

Andrew Brown

"If you are not paying for it, you're not the customer; you're the product being sold."

Andrew Lewis

"It is only when they go wrong that machines remind you how powerful they are."

Clive James

"Technology is so much fun but we can drown in our technology. The fog of information can drive out knowledge."

Daniel J. Boorstin

"I do not fear computers. I fear the lack of them."

Isaac Asimov

"Part of the inhumanity of the computer is that, once it is competently programmed and working smoothly, it is completely honest."

Isaac Asimov

"Science and technology revolutionize our lives, but memory, tradition and myth frame our response."

Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr.

"The digital revolution is far more significant than the invention of writing or even of printing."

Douglas Engelbart

"A computer once beat me at chess, but it was no match for me at kick boxing."

Emo Philips

"Any fool can write code that a computer can understand. Good programmers write code that humans can understand."

Martin Fowler

"Code is like humor. When you have to explain it, it's bad."

Cory House

"Debugging is twice as hard as writing the code in the first place. Therefore, if you write the code as cleverly as possible, you are, by definition, not smart enough to debug it."

Brian Kernighan

"Premature optimization is the root of all evil."

Donald Knuth

"Beware of bugs in the above code; I have only proved it correct, not tried it."

Donald Knuth

"There are only two kinds of languages: the ones people complain about and the ones nobody uses."

Bjarne Stroustrup

"Most good programmers do programming not because they expect to get paid or get adulation by the public, but because it is fun to program."

Linus Torvalds

"Everybody in this country should learn to program a computer, because it teaches you how to think."

Steve Jobs

"The computer programmer is a creator of universes for which he alone is the lawgiver."

Joseph Weizenbaum