Technology Quotes

Hardware: where the people in your company's software section will tell you the problem is. Software: where the people in your company's hardware section will tell you the problem is.

A computer will do what you tell it to do, but that may be much different from what you had in mind.

We shouldn't build a technology to colour, or grey out, what people say. The media in general is balanced, although there are a lot of issues to be addressed that the media rightly pick up on.

In a world without walls and fences, who needs Windows and Gates ?

Prolonged contact with the computer turns mathematicians into clerks and vice versa.

They say if you play a Microsoft CD backwards, you hear satanic messages. Thats nothing, cause if you play it forwards, it installs Windows.

The research rat of the future allows experimentation without manipulation of the real world. This is the cutting edge of modeling technology.

I have to say I was a bit shocked to see myself on the cover (TIME magazine). It's really not my style since Yahoo! is something built by a lot more people than just me..

The best book on programming for the layman is "Alice in Wonderland"; but that's because it's the best book on anything for the layman.

The most amazing achievement of the computer software industry is its continuing cancellation of the steady and staggering gains made by the computer hardware industry.

The computer programmer is a creator of universes for which he alone is responsible. Universes of virtually unlimited complexity can be created in the form of computer programs.

The demand for digital textbooks has increased since its introduction to the marketplace. As students become more familiar with them and computers get faster, larger and more portable, this product will gain in popularity.

The march of science and technology does not imply growing intellectual complexity in the lives of most people. It often means the opposite.

What the country needs are a few labor-making inventions.

I'm not anti-social; I'm just not user friendly.

Over the centuries the Indians developed sign language for communicating phenomena of interest. Programmers from different tribes (FORTRAN, LISP, ALGOL, SNOBOL, etc.) could use one that doesn't require them to carry a blackboard on their ponies.

As we go forward, I hope we're going to continue to use technology to make really big differences in how people live and work.

The telephone wire, as we know it, has become too slow and too small to handle Internet traffic. It took 75 years for telephones to be used by 50 million customers, but it took only four years for the Internet to reach that many users.

To err is human--and to blame it on a computer is even more so.

The term reboot comes from the middle age (before computers). Horses who stopped in mid-stride required a boot to the rear to start again. Thus the term to rear-boot, later abbreviated into reboot.

Silos can't interoperate unless the technology does.

To err is human, but to really foul things up requires a computer.

From then on, when anything went wrong with a computer, we said it had bugs in it.

I’ve noticed lately that the paranoid fear of computers becoming intelligent and taking over the world has almost entirely disappeared from the common culture. Near as I can tell, this coincides with the release of MS-DOS.

When we write programs that "learn", it turns out that we do and they don't.