I just invent, then wait until man comes around to needing what I’ve invented.
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.
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.
Building technical systems involves a lot of hard work and specialized knowledge: languages and protocols, coding and debugging, testing and refactoring.
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.
Television has changed the American child from an irresistable force to an immovable object.
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.
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.
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.
Mechanization best serves mediocrity.
The Internet is a telephone system that’s gotten uppity.
Telephone, n. An invention of the devil which abrogates some of the advantages of making a disagreeable person keep his distance.
Adding sound to movies would be like putting lipstick on the Venus de Milo.
The typewriting machine, when played with expression, is no more annoying than the piano when played by a sister or near relation.
Our lifetime may be the last that will be lived out in a technological society.
Inventor: A person who makes an ingenious arrangement of wheels, levers and springs, and believes it civilization.
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.
YouTube is akin to having my own network.
People are stunned to hear that one company has data files on 185 million Americans.
Microsoft is engaging in unlawful predatory practices that go well beyond the scope of fair competition.
Just as we could have rode into the sunset, along came the Internet, and it tripled the significance of the PC.
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.
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.
I used to think that cyberspace was fifty years away. What I thought was fifty years away, was only ten years away. And what I thought was ten years away… it was already here. I just wasn’t aware of it yet.
I think there are going to be a bunch of tablet-like devices. It’s really a different product category.
