Alan Perlis Quotes

Computers are merely ingenious devices to fulfill unimportant functions. The computer revolution is an explosion of nonsense.

I've been on the Web from the beginning of the Web. The good part about writing about technology is that you never run out of ideas, because it's changing so fast. The bad part is that it's changing so fast that there's a million new products and ideas every day and every week.

The computing field is always in need of new cliches.

It would be ridiculous to ignore the speed and possibilities of the digital landscape.

When Colin Powell showed up as Secretary of State in 2001, most State Department employees still didn't even have computers on their desks. When I got there they were not mostly permitted to have handheld devices. I mean, so you're thinking how do we operate in this new environment dominated by technology, globalizing forces? We have to change, and I can't expect people to change if I don't try to model it and lead it.

I despise computers in many ways. I think they’re hopelessly underevolved and overrated.

Technology is constantly changing and brings you automatically into the present. In that way, it automatically makes you build for this time.

Technological change is both familiar and easy to observe.

Technology is characterized by constant change, rapid innovation, creative destruction, and revolutionary products.

The digital revolution is far more significant than the invention of writing or even of printing.

This digital world is completely fascinating to me.

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.

Innovation and disruption are the hallmarks of the technology world, and hardly a moment passes when we are not thinking, doing, or talking about these topics.

Britain helped create the Internet - Tim Berners Lee created the World Wide Web, one of a long line of British scientists who have given us an outsized role in shaping our own digital future.

I never thought, in my lifetime, that you'd be able to watch movies, read books and listen to music from a phone, but I guess the technology of tomorrow is here today.

I don't think I had a role model. I just was very inspired by an article which I read in Forbes magazine around the information superhighway and the Arpanet and stuff like that. To me, that intuitively made sense, and when I decided to come to the U.S., I knew exactly what I wanted to go and write about.

The AV ecosystem is constantly evolving, and no single winner will be crowned.

When we talk about technology, often, we talk about the fact that it's going to be cool; it's going to do all these things for us. But at the same time, technology will deeply change our societies.

I am quick to adopt new ideas. If there is something good, I will follow it and implement it. I adopted information technology in 1985.

In a modern and innovative society, where advancements are plentiful and communication is instantaneous, science and technology are a part of everyday life.

The spread of information technology and the long-term decline in the cost of computing power have created opportunities that simply did not exist before. Airbnb, for example, could not have existed before the Internet.

Every time there is a major shift in technology, it's been hugely exciting and scary at the same time. I have seen some really drastic changes in technology, like shooting only film to video to digital.

Software increasingly defines the world around us.

The coming changes in technology will be as profound as the creation of the Internet.

Nothing wrong with computer as things. They can work wonders in communications and business and medicine and everything else.