All the new media are art forms which have the power of imposing, like poetry, their own assumptions.
Microsoft isn't evil, they just make really crappy operating systems.
Measuring programming progress by lines of code is like measuring aircraft building progress by weight.
To err is human, but to really foul things up you need a computer.
A distributed system is one in which the failure of a computer you didn't even know existed can render your own computer unusable.
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 technology of yesterday.
Cyberspace. A consensual hallucination experienced daily by billions of legitimate operators, in every nation, by children being taught mathematical concepts.
First we thought the PC was a calculator. Then we found out how to turn numbers into letters with ASCII — and we thought it was a typewriter. Then we discovered graphics, and we thought it was a television. With the World Wide Web, we've realized it's a brochure.
The system of nature, of which man is a part, tends to be self-balancing, self-adjusting, self-cleansing. Not so with technology.
I just invent, then wait until man comes around to needing what I've invented.
The newest computer can merely compound, at speed, the oldest problem in the relations between human beings, and in the end the communicator will be confronted with the old problem, of what to say and how to say it.
Technology is just a tool. In terms of getting the kids working together and motivating them, the teacher is the most important.
The march of science and technology does not imply growing intellectual complexity in the lives of most people. It often means the opposite.
Our inventions are wont to be pretty toys, which distract our attention from serious things. They are but improved means to an unimproved end.
The typewriting machine, when played with expression, is no more annoying than the piano when played by a sister or near relation.
I get mail; therefore I am.
Television is a medium because anything well done is rare.
During my eighty-seven years I have witnessed a whole succession of technological revolutions. But none of them has done away with the need for character in the individual or the ability to think.
Just because something doesn't do what you planned it to do doesn't mean it's useless.
Defect-free software does not exist.
To create a new standard it takes something that's not just a little bit different. It takes something that's really new and really captures people's imagination. And the Macintosh, of all the machines I've ever seen, is the only one that meets that standard.
Civilization advances by extending the number of important operations which we can perform without thinking of them.
My favorite thing about the Internet is that you get to go into the private world of real creeps without having to smell them.
If you have any trouble sounding condescending, find a Unix user to show you how it's done.
Technology is making gestures precise and brutal, and with them men.
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