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

The protean nature of the computer is such that it can act like a machine or like a language to be shaped and exploited.
Alan Kay on technology

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 on technology

Microsoft isn't evil, they just make really crappy operating systems.
Linus Torvalds on technology

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

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.
Georges Pompidou on technology

Our technological powers increase, but the side effects and potential hazards also escalate.
Alvin Toffler on technology

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

Defect-free software does not exist.
Wietse Venema on technology

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 on technology

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

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

Real programmers can write assembly code in any language.
Larry Wall on technology

You affect the world by what you browse.
Tim Berners-Lee on technology

In software systems it is often the early bird that makes the worm.
Alan Perlis on technology

The Internet is a telephone system that's gotten uppity.
Clifford Stoll on technology

Technology has to be invented or adopted.
Jared Diamond on technology

Building one space station for everyone was and is insane: we should have built a dozen.
Larry Niven on technology

What new technology does is create new opportunities to do a job that customers want done.
Tim O'Reilly on technology

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.
Lawrence Clark Powell on technology