Men have become the tools of their tools.

Just as we could have rode into the sunset, along came the Internet, and it tripled the significance of the PC.

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

Defect-free software does not exist.

People who are really serious about software should make their own hardware.

Soon silence will have passed into legend. Man has turned his back on silence. Day after day he invents machines and devices that increase noise and distract humanity from the essence of life, contemplation, meditation.

The Internet treats censorship as a malfunction and routes around it.

It may not always be profitable at first for businesses to be online, but it is certainly going to be unprofitable not to be online.

A satellite has no conscience.

As a technology, the book is like a hammer. That is to say, it is perfect: a tool ideally suited to its task. Hammers can be tweaked and varied but will never go obsolete. Even when builders pound nails by the thousand with pneumatic nail guns, every household needs a hammer.

We're still in the first minutes of the first day of the Internet revolution.

The internet is a great way to get on the net.

I force people to have coffee with me, just because I don't trust that a friendship can be maintained without any other senses besides a computer or cellphone screen.

Civilization advances by extending the number of important operations which we can perform without thinking of them.

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

Technology is such a broad kind of term, it really applies to so many things, from the electric light to running cars on oil. All of these different things can be called technology. I have kind of a love-hate relationship with it, as I expect most people do. With the computer, I spend so many hours sitting in front of a computer.

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

You affect the world by what you browse.

Doing linear scans over an associative array is like trying to club someone to death with a loaded Uzi.

It has become appallingly obvious that our technology has exceeded our humanity.

I think there are going to be a bunch of tablet-like devices. It's really a different product category.

Our technological powers increase, but the side effects and potential hazards also escalate.

It's impossible to move, to live, to operate at any level without leaving traces, bits, seemingly meaningless fragments of personal information.

I want people to use Perl. I want to be a positive ingredient of the world and make my American history. So, whatever it takes to give away my software and get it used, that's great.

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

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

An asteroid or a supervolcano could certainly destroy us, but we also face risks the dinosaurs never saw: An engineered virus, nuclear war, inadvertent creation of a micro black hole, or some as-yet-unknown technology could spell the end of us.

Microsoft isn't evil, they just make really crappy operating systems.

The typewriting machine, when played with expression, is no more annoying than the piano when played by a sister or near relation.

Everybody gets so much information all day long that they lose their common sense.

Technology... is a queer thing. It brings you great gifts with one hand, and it stabs you in the back with the other.

The digital camera is a great invention because it allows us to reminisce. Instantly.

America has the best doctors, the best nurses, the best hospitals, the best medical technology, the best medical breakthrough medicines in the world. There is absolutely no reason we should not have in this country the best health care in the world.

For my confirmation, I didn't get a watch and my first pair of long pants, like most Lutheran boys. I got a telescope. My mother thought it would make the best gift.

Technology is making gestures precise and brutal, and with them men.

Tweeting is like sending out cool telegrams to your friends once a week.

The real problem is not whether machines think but whether men do.

Humanity is acquiring all the right technology for all the wrong reasons.

Broadband access is the great equalizer, leveling the playing field so that every willing and able person, no matter their station in life, has access to the information and tools necessary to achieve the American Dream.

The science of today is the technology of tomorrow.

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.

Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.

The Web as I envisaged it, we have not seen it yet. The future is still so much bigger than the past.

Inventor: A person who makes an ingenious arrangement of wheels, levers and springs, and believes it civilization.

Technology is the knack of so arranging the world that we don't have to experience it.

Globalization, as defined by rich people like us, is a very nice thing... you are talking about the Internet, you are talking about cell phones, you are talking about computers. This doesn't affect two-thirds of the people of the world.

It is questionable if all the mechanical inventions yet made have lightened the day's toil of any human being.

Success in creating AI would be the biggest event in human history. Unfortunately, it might also be the last, unless we learn how to avoid the risks.

Congress will pass a law restricting public comment on the Internet to individuals who have spent a minimum of one hour actually accomplishing a specific task while on line.

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

Bitcoin is a swarm of cyber hornets serving the goddess of wisdom, feeding on the fire of truth, exponentially growing ever smarter, faster, and stronger behind a wall of encrypted energy.

The technology keeps moving forward, which makes it easier for the artists to tell their stories and paint the pictures they want.

Mechanization best serves mediocrity.

If it keeps up, man will atrophy all his limbs but the push-button finger.

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

Everyone has a right to a university degree in America, even if it's in Hamburger Technology.

Bill Gates is a very rich man today... and do you want to know why? The answer is one word: versions.

I think complexity is mostly sort of crummy stuff that is there because it's too expensive to change the interface.

If we continue to develop our technology without wisdom or prudence, our servant may prove to be our executioner.

All of the books in the world contain no more information than is broadcast as video in a single large American city in a single year. Not all bits have equal value.

The Internet is a telephone system that's gotten uppity.

Our lifetime may be the last that will be lived out in a technological society.

Cell phones, mobile e-mail, and all the other cool and slick gadgets can cause massive losses in our creative output and overall productivity.

Style used to be an interaction between the human soul and tools that were limiting. In the digital era, it will have to come from the soul alone.

Getting information off the Internet is like taking a drink from a fire hydrant.

The world is very different now. For man holds in his mortal hands the power to abolish all forms of human poverty, and all forms of human life.

Technology is supposed to make our lives easier, allowing us to do things more quickly and efficiently. But too often it seems to make things harder, leaving us with fifty-button remote controls, digital cameras with hundreds of mysterious features and book-length manuals, and cars with dashboard systems worthy of the space shuttle.

The first rule of any technology used in a business is that automation applied to an efficient operation will magnify the efficiency. The second is that automation applied to an inefficient operation will magnify the inefficiency.

The most important and urgent problems of the technology of today are no longer the satisfactions of the primary needs or of archetypal wishes, but the reparation of the evils and damages by the technology of yesterday.

Technological progress has merely provided us with more efficient means for going backwards.

These days the technology can solve our problems and then some. Solutions may not only erase physical or mental deficits but leave patients better off than 'able-bodied' folks. The person who has a disability today may have a superability tomorrow.

Television is a medium because anything well done is rare.

In software systems it is often the early bird that makes the worm.

The number one benefit of information technology is that it empowers people to do what they want to do. It lets people be creative. It lets people be productive. It lets people learn things they didn't think they could learn before, and so in a sense it is all about potential.

What new technology does is create new opportunities to do a job that customers want done.

The newest computer can merely compound, at speed, the oldest problem in the relations between human beings, and in the end the communicator will be confronted with the old problem, of what to say and how to say it.

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

The Internet is the most important single development in the history of human communication since the invention of call waiting.

People are stunned to hear that one company has data files on 185 million Americans.

Building technical systems involves a lot of hard work and specialized knowledge: languages and protocols, coding and debugging, testing and refactoring.

The research rat of the future allows experimentation without manipulation of the real world. This is the cutting edge of modeling technology.

Cyberspace can't compensate for real space. We benefit from chatting to people face to face.

We will create a civilization of the Mind in Cyberspace. May it be more humane and fair than the world your governments have made before.

Making duplicate copies and computer printouts of things no one wanted even one of in the first place is giving America a new sense of purpose.

Technology is a gift of God. After the gift of life it is perhaps the greatest of God's gifts. It is the mother of civilizations, of arts and of sciences.

The original idea of the web was that it should be a collaborative space where you can communicate through sharing information.

To bring out a new technology for consumers first, you just had a very long road to go down to try to find people who actually would pay money for something.

We 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.

We are led by lawyers who do not understand either technology or balance sheets.

Technological society has succeeded in multiplying the opportunities for pleasure, but it has great difficulty in generating joy.

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

My vision is for a fully reusable rocket transport system between Earth and Mars that is able to re-fuel on Mars - this is very important - so you don't have to carry the return fuel when you go there.

We've arranged a civilization in which most crucial elements profoundly depend on science and technology.

Sites need to be able to interact in one single, universal space.

Real programmers can write assembly code in any language.

Adding sound to movies would be like putting lipstick on the Venus de Milo.

Relying on the government to protect your privacy is like asking a peeping tom to install your window blinds.

Technology gives us power, but it does not and cannot tell us how to use that power. Thanks to technology, we can instantly communicate across the world, but it still doesn't help us know what to say.

The march of science and technology does not imply growing intellectual complexity in the lives of most people. It often means the opposite.

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