VERY TECHNOLOGICAL QUOTES

Favourite Technology Quotations

Everything that can be invented has been invented.
- Charles H. Duell, Commissioner, U.S. Office of Patents, 1899

640K ought to be enough for anybody.
- Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates, 1981

I think there is a world market for maybe five computers.
- IBM Chairman Thomas Watson, 1943

There is no reason for any individual to have a computer in their home.
- Ken Olson (President of Digital Equipment Corporation) at the Convention of the World Future Society in Boston in 1977

The real problem is not whether machines think but whether men do.
- B. F. Skinner

Computers make it easier to do a lot of things, but most of the things they make it easier to do don't need to be done.
- Andy Rooney

In a few minutes a computer can make a mistake so great that it would have taken many men many months to equal it.
- Anonymous

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

Any teacher that can be replaced by a computer, deserves to be.
- David Thornburg

Those parts of the system that you can hit with a hammer are called hardware; those program instructions that you can only curse at are called software.
- Anonymous

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

Never let a computer know you're in a hurry.
- Anonymous

I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work.
- Thomas Edison

Technology is like fish. The longer it stays on the shelf, the less desirable it becomes.
- Andrew Heller, IBM