"Vannevar Bush is a great name for playing six degrees of separation. Turn back the clock on any aspect of information technology — from the birth of Silicon Valley and the marriage of science and the military to the advent of the World Wide Web — and you find his footprints. As historian Michael Sherry says, "To understand the world of Bill Gates and Bill Clinton, start with understanding Vannevar Bush.""
Quote Details
Added by wikiquote-import-bot
Unverified quote
0 likes
Original Language: English
Available Languages (1)
Sources
G. Pascal Zachary, in "The Godfather" in WIRED 5.11 (November 1997).
https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Information_technology
Revision History
No revisions have been submitted for this quote.
Categories
Information technology
30 quotes on TrueQuotesView all quotes by Information technology →
Related Quotes
"Our exploration of emergent social structures across domains of human activity and experience leads to an over-archin…"
"The term "information technology architecture," with respect to an executive agency, means an integrated framework fo…"
"I would remind you that in the United States we had an increasing gap between the rich and the poor for about 20 year…"
"The coordination of information technology management presents a challenge to firms with dispersed IT practices. Dece…"
"During the Cold War a new conceptual framework took hold of U.S. defense thinking in an attempt to reduce unpredictab…"
"Tracking the individual learning curves of the major technologies that comprise the infrastructure of information tec…"
"It is clear that even though information technology (I/T) has evolved from its traditional orientation of administrat…"
"The strategic role of information systems in “extending” the enterprise is examined. A number of issues emerge as ess…"
"[ Technology is] the instrumentality for accessing and using free energies in human societies for human and social pu…"
"Today, no one would dispute that information technology has become the backbone of commerce. It underpins the operati…"