Technology Quotes

The spoken word was the first technology by which man was able to let go of his environment in order to grasp it in a new way.

If you can't make it good, at least make it look good.

I am a hard-core believer that the clean desktop is the way to go... At the same time, we told OEMs that if they were going to put a bunch of icons on the desktop, then so were we.

My understanding is their objective is to increase their capacity for the Internet, search engines. All I know is there's a lot of computers.

Unix was not designed to stop you from doing stupid things, because that would also stop you from doing clever things.

You can’t have great software without a great team, and most software teams behave like dysfunctional families.

The Internet: where men are men, women are men, and children are FBI agents.

The newest computer can merely compound, at speed, the oldest problem in the relations between human beings, and in the end the communicator will be confronted with the old problem, of what to say and how to say it.

Unfortunately this was an older file that this person hadn't opened in quite a while. The person who uses this computer had missed it.

Never trust a computer you can’t throw out a window.

If Unix is the face of the future I want to go back to quill pens.

The number one benefit of information technology is that it empowers people to do what they want to do. It lets people be creative. It lets people be productive. It lets people learn things they didn't think they could learn before, and so in a sense it is all about potential.

The Net interprets censorship as damage and routes around it.

It is not about bits, bytes and protocols, but profits, losses and margins.

Live TV died in the late 1950s, electronic bulletin boards came along in the mid-1980s, meaning there was about a 25-year gap when it was difficult to put your foot in your mouth and have people all across the country know about it.

Users /nm./: collective term for those who use computers. Users are divided into three types: novice, intermediate and expert. Novice Users: people who are afraid that simply pressing a key might break their computer. Intermediate Users: people who don't know how to fix their computer after they've just pressed a key that broke it. Expert Users: people who break other people's computers.

There are so many ways to heal. Arrogance may have a place in technology, but not in healing. I need to get out of my own way if I am to heal.

You know you're a geek when... You try to shoo a fly away from the monitor with your cursor. That just happened to me. It was scary.

Treat your password like your toothbrush. Don't let anybody else use it, and get a new one every six months.

eBay's business is based on enabling someone to do business with another person, and to do that, they first have to develop some measure of trust, either in the other person or the system.

There will always be things we wish to say in our programs that in all known languages can only be said poorly.

There are three kinds of death in this world. There's heart death, there's brain death, and there's being off the network.

Home is where you hang your @.

Vista is the the George W Bush of the technology industry.

First, solve the problem. Then, write the code.