Quotes About Computers & Technology

What information consumes is rather obvious: it consumes the attention of its recipients. Hence, a wealth of information creates a poverty of attention and a need to allocate that attention efficiently among the overabundance of information sources that might consume it.
-- Herbert Simon

Where is the wisdom we have lost in knowledge? Where is the knowledge we have lost in information?
-- T. S. Eliot

If you have the same ideas as everybody else but have them one week earlier than everyone else then you will be hailed as a visionary. But if you have them five years earlier you will be named a lunatic.
--Barry Jones

All great ideas are dangerous.
-- Oscar Wilde

All progress is initiated by challenging current conceptions, and executed by supplanting existing institutions.
-- George Bernard Shaw

If I have seen further it is by standing on the shoulders of giants.
-- Isaac Newton

Reasonable people adapt themselves to the world. Unreasonable people attempt to adapt the world to themselves. All progress, therefore, depends on unreasonable people.
-- George Bernard Shaw

Don't worry about people stealing your ideas. If your ideas are any good, you'll have to ram them down people's throats.
-- Howard Aiken

There are two ways of constructing a software design. One way is to make it so simple that there are obviously no deficiencies. And the other way is to make it so complicated that there are no obvious deficiencies.
-- C. A. R. Hoare

You know you've achieved perfection in design,
Not when you have nothing more to add,
But when you have nothing more to take away.
-- Antoine de Saint--Exupery

Things should be made as simple as possible, but not any simpler.
-- Albert Einstein

The danger from computers is not that they will eventually get as smart as people, but we will meanwhile agree to meet them halfway.
-- Bernard Avishai

The most important thing in science is not so much to obtain new facts as to discover new ways of thinking about them
-- Sir William Bragg

The original root of the word information is the Latin word informare, which means to fashion, shape, or create, to give form to. Information is an idea that has been given a form, such as the spoken or written word. It is a means of representing an image or thought so that it can be communicated from one mind to another. Rather than worrying about all the information afloat in the world, we must ask ourselves what matters to us, what do we want to know. It's having ideas and learning to deal with issues that is important, not accumulating lots and lots of data.
-- Theordore Roszack

Just because something doesn't do what you planned it to do doesn't mean it's useless.
-- Thomas Alva Edison

I think and think for months, for years; 99 times the conclusion is wrong, but the hundredth it is right.
-- Albert Einstein

The empires of the future are the empires of the mind.
-- Winston Churchill

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

There are two major products that come out of Berkeley: LSD and UNIX. We don't believe this to be a coincidence.
-- Jeremy S. Anderson

When I am working on a problem I never think about beauty. I only think about how to solve the problem. But when I have finished, if the solution is not beautiful, I know it is wrong.
-- R. Buckminster Fuller

When love and skill work together, expect a masterpiece.
-- John Ruskin

There is no Energy Shortage. There is no Energy Crisis. There is a Crisis of Ignorance.
-- R Buckminster Fuller

Pioneers may be picturesque figures, but they are often rather lonely ones.
-- Nancy Astor