They tried to escape technology, to stay away from that and still have relationships with their fellow humans. Very difficult. Arthur Miller It's not a faith in technology. It's faith in people. Steve Jobs Computers have lots of memory but no imagination. Author Unknown Information technology and business are becoming inextricably interwoven. I don't think anybody can talk meaningfully about one without the talking about the other. Bill Gates Technology is nothing. What's important is that you have a faith in people, that they're basically good and smart, and if you give them tools, they'll do wonderful things with them. Steve Jobs To turn really interesting ideas and fledgling technologies into a company that can continue to innovate for years, it requires a lot of discipline. Steve Jobs It has become appallingly obvious that our technology has exceeded our humanity. Albert Einstein The first rule of any technology used in a business is that automation applied to an efficient operation will magnify the efficiency. The second is that automation applied to an inefficient operation will magnify the inefficiency. Bill Gates Technological progress has merely provided us with more efficient means for going backwards. Aldous Huxley Man is still the most extraordinary computer of all. John F. Kennedy All of the biggest technological inventions created by man - the airplane, the automobile, the computer - says little about his intelligence, but speaks volumes about his laziness. Mark Kennedy Truth is, I wouldn't know a gigabyte from a snakebite. Dolly Parton I think it's fair to say that personal computers have become the most empowering tool we've ever created. They're tools of communication, they're tools of creativity, and they can be shaped by their user. Bill Gates Technology is just a tool. In terms of getting the kids working together and motivating them, the teacher is the most important. Bill Gates The Internet is becoming the town square for the global village of tomorrow. Bill Gates Lo! Men have become the tools of their tools. Henry David Thoreau The production of too many useful things results in too many useless people. Karl Marx But they (computers) are useless. They can only give you answers. Pablo Picasso Without doubt, machinery has greatly increased the number of well-to-do idlers. Karl Marx Computers are useless. They can only give you answers.” -Pablo Picasso The real danger is not that computers will begin to think like men, but that men will begin to think like computers.” -Sydney J. Harris Treat your password like your toothbrush. Don’t let anybody else use it, and get a new one every six months. -Clifford Stoll Technology is dominated by two types of people: those who understand what they do not manage, and those who manage what they do not understand.” – Putt’s Law To err is human, but to really foul things up requires a computer. -Farmer’s Almanac, 1978 Computers are like Old Testament gods; lots of rules and no mercy. -Joseph Campbell Computing is not about computers any more. It is about living. -Nicholas Negroponte Three things are certain: Death, taxes, and lost data. Guess which has occurred. – David Dixon, 1998 Hardware: where the people in your company’s software section will tell you the problem is. Software: where the people in your company’s hardware section will tell you the problem is. – Dave Barry, Claw Your Way to the Top Chaos reigns within. Reflect, repent, and reboot. Order shall return. – Suzie Wagner, 1998 A computer lets you make more mistakes faster than any invention in human history – with the possible exceptions of handguns and tequila. – Mitch Ratcliffe 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 just wish my mouth had a backspace key. – Author Unknown If builders built buildings the way programmers wrote programs, then the first woodpecker that came along would destroy civilization. – One of Murphy’s Laws of Technology In God we trust, all others we virus scan. – Author Unknown It’s not computer literacy that we should be working on, but sort of human-literacy. Computers have to become human-literate. – Nicholas P. Negroponte Man is still the most extraordinary computer of all. – John F. Kennedy The question of whether computers can think is just like the question of whether submarines can swim. – Edsger W. Dijkstra Information technology and business are becoming inextricably interwoven. I don’t think anybody can talk meaningfully about one without the talking about the other. -Bill Gates There is a computer disease that anybody who works with computers knows about. It’s a very serious disease and it interferes completely with the work. The trouble with computers is that you ‘play’ with them! – Richard P. Feynman To have no errors… Would be life without meaning …No struggle, no joy – Brian M. Porter, 1998 “1f u c4n r34d th1s u r34lly n33d t0 g37 l41d”