Favorite Technology Quotations

The telephone wire, as we know it, has become too slow and too small
to handle Internet traffic. It took 75 years for telephones to be
used by 50 million customers, but it took only four years for the
Internet to reach that many users.
- Lori Valigra 

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

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 

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

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

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 

The most overlooked advantage to owning a computer is that if they
foul up there's no law against whacking them around a little.
- Porterfield 

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

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

Get your feet off my desk, get out of here, you stink, and we're not
going to buy your product.
- Joe Keenan, President of Atari, in 1976 responding to Steve Jobs'
offer to sell him rights to the new personal computer he and Steve
Wozniak developed 

The Internet is a great way to get on the net.
- Senator Bob Dole 

Computers in the future may have only 1,000 vacuum tubes and perhaps
only weigh 1 1/2 tons.
- Popular Mechanics, 1949

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

AOL is like the cockroach left after the nuclear bomb hits. They know
how to survive. 
- Jan Horsfall, VP of marketing for Lycos

How could this be a problem in a country where we have Intel and
Microsoft? 
- Al Gore on Y2K 

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