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The coming of the printing press must have seemed as if it would turn the world upside down in the way it spread and, above all, democratized knowledge. Provide you could pay and read, what was on the shelves in the new bookshops was yours for the taking. The speed with which printing presses and their operators fanned out across Europe is extraordinary. From the single Mainz press of 1457, it took only twenty-three years to establish presses in 110 towns: 50 in Ita!0 in Germany, 9 in France, 8 in Spain, 8 in Holland, 4 in England, and so on.
Author: James E. Burke
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If you get hung up on everybody else's hang-ups, then the whole world's going to be nothing more than one huge gallows.
Author: Richard Brautigan
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The consequences of things are not always proportionate to the apparent magnitude of those events that have produced them. Thus the American Revolution, from which little was expected, produced much; but the French Revolution, from which much was expected, produced little.
Author: Charles Caleb Colton
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Mathematicians are like Frenchmen: whatever you say to them they translate into their own language and forthwith it is something entirely different.
Author: M. C. Reed
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Basic research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing.
Author: John Von Neuman
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The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds new discoveries, is not 'Eureka!' but 'That's funny...'.
Author: Isaac Asimov
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What is a scientist after all? It is a curious man looking through a keyhole, the keyhole of nature, trying to know what's going on.
Author: Jacques Cousteau
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From now on we live in a world where man has walked on the Moon. It's not a miracle; we just decided to go.
Author: Tom Hanks
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There is something fascinating about science. One gets such wholesale returns of conjecture out of such a trifling investment of fact.
Author: Mark Twain
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We like to test things... no matter how good an idea sounds, test it first.
Author: Henry Block
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I am dying from the treatment of too many physicians.
Author: Alexander The Great
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By the time (the Leaning Tower of Pisa) was 10% built, everyone knew it would be a total disaster. But the investment was so big they felt compelled to go on. Since its completion, it cost a fortune to maintain and is still in danger of collapsing. There are no plans to replace it, since it was never needed in the first place. I expect every installation has its own pet software which is analogous to the above.
Author: Guy Kawasaki
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Form follows function. - "Lippincott's Magazine", March, 1896.
Author: Louis Henri Sullivan
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If a man's wit be wandering, let him study the mathematics. - Essays, 1625.
Author: Francis Bacon
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Science is nothing but perception.
Author: Plato
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The tools we use have a profound (and devious!) influence on our thinking habits, and, therefore, on our thinking abilities.
Author: Edsgar W. Dijkstra
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Men have become the tools of their tools.
Author: John Tudor
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FORTRAN --'the infantile disorder'--, by now nearly 20 years old, is hopelessly inadequate for whatever computer application you have in mind today: it is now too clumsy, too risky, and too expensive to use.
PL/I --'the fatal disease'-- belongs more to the problem set than to the solution set.
It is practically impossible to teach good programming to students that have had a prior exposure to BASIC: as potential programmers they are mentally mutilated beyond hope of regeneration.
The use of COBOL cripples the mind; its teaching should, therefore, be regarded as a criminal offence.
APL is a mistake, carried through to perfection. It is the language of the future for the programming techniques of the past: it creates a new generation of coding bums.
Author: Edsgar W. Dijkstra
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About the use of language: it is impossible to sharpen a pencil with a blunt axe. It is equally vain to try to do it with ten blunt axes instead.
Author: Edsgar W. Dijkstra
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Globalization, as defined by rich people like us, is a very nice thing... you are talking about the Internet, you are talking about cell phones, you are talking about computers. This doesn't affect two-thirds of the people of the world.
Author: Jimmy Carter
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URLs are the 800 numbers of the 1990's.
Author: Chris Clark
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The real problem is not whether machines think but whether men do.
Author: Joseph Snipp
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People in the computer industry use the term 'user,' which to them means 'idiot.'.
Author: Dave Barry
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Art and science have their meeting point in method.
Author: Paul Dirac
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The most overlooked advantage to owning a computer is that if they foul up, there's no law against whacking them around a little.
Author: Porterfield
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When I investigate and when I discover that the forces of the heavens and the planets are within ourselves, then truly I seem to be living among the gods.
Author: Leon Battista Alberti
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Touch a scientist and you touch a child.
Author: Ray Bradbury
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Men love to wonder, and that is the seed of science.
Author: Ralph Waldo Emerson
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I do not fear computers. I fear the lack of them.
Author: Isaac Asimov
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Sites need to be able to interact in one single, universal space.
Author: Tim Berners-lee
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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.
Author: Bill Gates
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The atom, being for all practical purposes the stable unit of the physical plane, is a constantly changing vortex of reactions. -Unknown.
Author: Unknown
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It stands to the everlasting credit of science that by acting on the human mind it has overcome man's insecurity before himself and before nature.
Author: Albert Einstein
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...there is no prescribed route to follow to arrive at a new idea. You have to make the intuitive leap. But the difference is that once you've made the intuitive leap you have to justify it by filling in the intermediate steps. In my case, it often happens that I have an idea, but then I try to fill in the intermediate steps and find that they don't work, so I have to give it up.
Author: Stephen W. Hawking
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We are governed not by armies, but by ideas.
Author: Mona Caird
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The scientific theory I like best is that the rings of Saturn are composed entirely of lost airline luggage.
Author: Ernest Rutherford
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The process of scientific discovery is, in effect, a continual flight from wonder.
Author: Albert Einstein
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Man's fear of ideas is probably the greatest dike holding back human knowledge and happiness.
Author: Morris L. Ernst
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Innovators are inevitably controversial.
Author: Eva Le Gallienne
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INNOVATION is the process of turning ideas into manufacturable and marketable form.
Author: Watts Humprey
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If you build a better mousetrap, you will catch better mice.
Author: George Gobel
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Saying that Windows95 is equal to Macintosh is like finding a potato that looks like Jesus and believing you've witnessed the second coming.
Author: D. H. Lawrence
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If unix is the face of the future I wanna go back to quill pens.
Author: Gene Spafford
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Hardly a year passes that fails to find a new, oft-times exotic, research method or technique added to the armamentarium of political inquiry. Anyone who cannot negotiate Chi squares, assess randomization, statistical significance, and standard deviations is less than illiterate; he is preconscious.
Author: Robert A. Humphrey
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Computer Science is no more about computers than astronomy is about telescopes.
Author: Edsgar W. Dijkstra
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The most likely way for the world to be destroyed, most experts agree, is by accident. That's where we come in; we're computer professionals. We cause accidents.
Author: Nathaniel Borenstein
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If the automobile had followed the same development cycle as the computer, a Rolls-Royce would today cost $100, get one million miles to the gallon, and explode once a year, killing everyone inside.
Author: Robert X Cringely
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Always design a thing by considering it in its next larger context -- a chair in a room, a room in a house, a house in an environment, an environment in a city plan. - "Time", July 2, 1956.
Author: Eliel Saarinen
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One has to be able to count if only so that at fifty one doesn't marry a girl of twenty. - The Zykovs, 1914.
Author: Maxim Gorky
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For a smart material to be able to send out a more complex signal it needs to be nonlinear. If you hit a tuning fork twice as hard it will ring twice as loud but still at the same frequency. That's a linear response. If you hit a person twice as hard they're unlikely just to shout twice as loud. That property lets you learn more about the person than the tuning fork. - When Things Start to Think, 1999.
Author: Neil Gershenfeld
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