Technology Quotes

The best computer is a man, and it's the only one that can be mass-produced by unskilled labor.

The difference between e-mail and regular mail is that computers handle e-mail, and computers never decide to come to work one day and shoot all the other computers.

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..

Microsoft is now talking about the digital nervous system... I guess I would be nervous if my system was built on their technology too.

To understand a program you must become both the machine and the program.

First and foremost, the Internet is unique since it is THE only interactive medium -- and that's important because from a content, service, and communications perspective, we web folks try to take advantage of that interactivity.

Technology has the shelf life of a banana.

We've all heard that a million monkeys banging on a million typewriters will eventually reproduce the entire works of Shakespeare. Now, thanks to the Internet, we know this is not true.

Advances in computer technology and the Internet have changed the way America works, learns, and communicates. The Internet has become an integral part of America's economic, political, and social life.

The Internet may fairly be regarded as a never-ending worldwide conversation. The government may not, through the , interrupt that conversation... As the most participatory form of mass speech yet developed, the Internet deserves the highest protection from governmental intrusion... The government, therefore, implicitly asks this court to limit both the amount of speech on the Internet and the availability of that speech. This argument is profoundly repugnant to First Amendment principles.

The future masters of technology will have to be light-hearted and intelligent. The machine easily masters the grim and the dumb.

Computers can figure out all kinds of problems, except the things in the world that just don't add up.

Grove giveth and Gates taketh away.

The Internet's been so great, and it's so nice to have fans do nice, elaborate websites, but I think the down side is some of the things... for real fans to go on and see that 90 percent of the information isn't true or to see pictures that aren't really me, or for them to be able to sell these things, that's one of the down sides, I think.

It is easier to write an incorrect program than understand a correct one.

Upwards of two hundred species.. mostly of the large, slow-breeding variety.. are becoming extinct here every day because more and more of the earth's carrying capacity is systematically being converted into human carrying capacity. These species are being burnt out, starved out, and squeezed out of existence.. thanks to technologies that most people, I'm afraid, think of as technologies of peace. I hope it will not be too long before the technologies that support our population explosion begin to be perceived as no less hazardous to the future of life on this planet than the endless production of radioactive wastes.

The Internet is so big, so powerful and pointless that for some people it is a complete substitute for life.

That’s what’s cool about working with computers. They don’t argue, they remember everything, and they don’t drink all your beer.

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.

Fools ignore complexity. Pragmatists suffer it. Some can avoid it. Geniuses remove it.

People say Microsoft paid $14M for using the Rolling Stones song 'Start me up' in their commercials. This is wrong. Microsoft payed $14M only for a part of the song. For instance, they didn't use the line 'You'll make a grown man cry'.

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

Software suppliers are trying to make their software packages more ‘user-friendly’… Their best approach so far has been to take all the old brochures and stamp the words ‘user-friendly’ on the cover.

The idea is that instead of going to an online retail site ... and buying a physical CD and having it shipped to you, you actually can buy the song and download the song to your computer hard drive.

Software expands to consume all available resources.