Over 40,000 Famous Quotes Sorted By Topic and Author

Anybody who has been seriously engaged is scientific work of any kind realizes that over the entrance to the gates of the temple of science are written the words: 'Ye must have faith.'.

Science has made us gods even before we are worthy of being men.

Surgery is the red flower that blooms among the leaves and thorns that are the rest of medicine.

The real danger is not that computers will begin to think like men, but that men will begin to think like computers.

Gates is the ultimate programming machine. He believes everything can be defined, examined, reduced to essentials, and rearranged into a logical sequence that will achieve a particular goal.

For my confirmation, I didn't get a watch and my first pair of long pants, like most Lutheran boys. I got a telescope. My mother thought it would make the best gift.

I'm projecting somewhere between 100 million and 200 million computers by the end of December 2000, and about 300 million users by that same time.

The Internet is like a giant jellyfish. You can't step on it. You can't go around it. You've got to get through it.

Humanity is acquiring all the right technology for all the wrong reasons.

It is questionable if all the mechanical inventions yet made have lightened the day's toil of any human being.

Before we work on artificial intelligence why don't we do something about natural stupidity?

Since the invention of the microprocessor, the cost of moving a byte of information around has fallen on the order of 10-million-fold. Never before in the human history has any product or service gotten 10 million times cheaper-much less in the course of a couple decades. That's as if a 747 plane, once at $150 million a piece, could now be bought for about the price of a large pizza.

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.

Real programmers can write assembly code in any language.

The typewriting machine, when played with expression, is no more annoying than the piano when played by a sister or near relation.

Science is the tool of the Western mind and with it more doors can be opened than with bare hands. It is part and parcel of our knowledge and obscures our insight only when it holds that the understanding given by it is the only kind there is. . -C.G. Jung.

Science is simply common sense at its best--that is, rigidly accurate in observation, and merciless to fallacy in logic.

As nuclear and other technological achievements continue to mount, the normal life span will continue to climb. The hourly productivity of the worker will increase.

Where there is the necessary technical skill to move mountains, there is no need for the faith that moves mountains.

This problem, too, will look simple after it is solved.