Technology Quotes

"Truth can only be found in one place: the code."

Robert C. Martin

"Make it work, make it right, make it fast."

Kent Beck

"In theory, there is no difference between theory and practice. But, in practice, there is."

Jan L. A. van de Snepscheut

"Computer science education cannot make anybody an expert programmer any more than studying brushes and pigment can make somebody an expert painter."

Eric S. Raymond

"One machine can do the work of fifty ordinary men. No machine can do the work of one extraordinary man."

Elbert Hubbard

"The machine does not isolate man from the great problems of nature but plunges him more deeply into them."

Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

"Technology without morality is barbarous; morality without technology is impotent."

Freeman Dyson

"The great growling engine of change – technology."

Alvin Toffler

"I think computer viruses should count as life. I think it says something about human nature that the only form of life we have created so far is purely destructive."

Stephen Hawking

"The Net interprets censorship as damage and routes around it."

John Gilmore

"On the Internet, nobody knows you're a dog."

Peter Steiner

"The Internet is a reflection of our society and that mirror is going to be reflecting what we see."

Vint Cerf

"The more elaborate our means of communication, the less we communicate."

Joseph Priestley

"Television is a medium because it is neither rare nor well done."

Ernie Kovacs

"Mr. Watson, come here, I want to see you."

Alexander Graham Bell

"Every day sees humanity more victorious in the struggle with space and time."

Guglielmo Marconi

"The Wright brothers flew right through the smoke screen of impossibility."

Charles F. Kettering

"I would prize every invention of science made for the benefit of all."

"Thinking is progress. Non-thinking is stagnation of the individual, organisation and the country."

"There's a way to do it better – find it."

Thomas Edison

"The value of an idea lies in the using of it."

Thomas Edison

"The scientists of today think deeply instead of clearly."

"Imagination is more important than knowledge."

Albert Einstein

"For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for nature cannot be fooled."

Richard Feynman

"Science is more than a body of knowledge; it is a way of thinking."

Carl Sagan