Technology(116)

"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."
Bruce Sterling

"The Internet is a telephone system that's gotten uppity."
Clifford Stoll

"Spending an evening on the World Wide Web is much like sitting down to a dinner of Cheetos, two hours later your fingers are yellow and you're no longer hungry, but you haven't been nourished."
Clifford Stoll

"Why is it drug addicts and computer afficionados are both called users?"
Clifford Stoll

"Men have become the tools of their tools."
Henry David Thoreau

"Microsoft isn't evil, they just make really crappy operating systems."
Linus Torvalds

"The Linux philosophy is 'Laugh in the face of danger'. Oops. Wrong One. 'Do it yourself'. Yes, that's it."
Linus Torvalds

"A friend called me up the other day and talked about investing in a dot-com that sells lobsters. Internet lobsters. Where will this end? The next day he sent me a huge package of lobsters on ice. How low can you stoop?"
Donald Trump

"Doing linear scans over an associative array is like trying to club someone to death with a loaded Uzi."
Larry Wall

"Real programmers can write assembly code in any language."
Larry Wall