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.
Carl Sagan
Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.
Arthur C. Clarke
Bill Gates is a very rich man today... and do you want to know why? The answer is one word: versions.
Dave Barry
Building one space station for everyone was and is insane: we should have built a dozen.
Larry Niven
Building technical systems involves a lot of hard work and specialized knowledge: languages and protocols, coding and debugging, testing and refactoring.
Jesse James Garrett
Champagne, if you are seeking the truth, is better than a lie detector. It encourages a man to be expansive, even reckless, while lie detectors are only a challenge to tell lies successfully.
Graham Greene
Civilization advances by extending the number of important operations which we can perform without thinking of them.
Alfred North Whitehead
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.
Andy Grove
Cyberspace. A consensual hallucination experienced daily by billions of legitimate operators, in every nation, by children being taught mathematical concepts.
William Gibson
Defect-free software does not exist.
Wietse Venema
Do you realize if it weren't for Edison we'd be watching TV by candlelight?
Al Boliska
Doing linear scans over an associative array is like trying to club someone to death with a loaded Uzi.
Larry Wall
Everybody gets so much information all day long that they lose their common sense.
Gertrude Stein
For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for Nature cannot be fooled.
Richard P. Feynman
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.
Wernher von Braun
Gates is the ultimate programming machine. He believes everything can be defined, examined, reduced to essentials, and rearranged into a logical sequence that will achieve a particular goal.
Stewart Alsop
Getting information off the Internet is like taking a drink from a fire hydrant.
Mitchell Kapor
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.
Jimmy Carter
Humanity is acquiring all the right technology for all the wrong reasons.
R. Buckminster Fuller
I am sorry to say that there is too much point to the wisecrack that life is extinct on other planets because their scientists were more advanced than ours.
John F. Kennedy
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