Technology Quotes

Technology: No Place for Wimps!

Computer language design is just like a stroll in the park. Jurassic Park, that is.

I remember turning in my first assignment in elementary school using the computer and the teachers were kind of confused that I had printed it.

Though the Chinese should adore APL, it's FORTRAN they put their money on.

It is dangerously destabilizing to have half the world on the cutting edge of technology while the other half struggles on the bare edge of survival.

Programming is like sex: one mistake and you’re providing support for a lifetime.

There used to be this country called the Soviet Union; it's not there anymore. Our technology was better than theirs.

I like my job because it involves learning. I like being around smart people who are trying to figure out new things. I like the fact that if people really try they can figure out how to invent things that actually have an impact.

I believe that Silicon Valley is truly a place of excellence and the impact of this tiny community on the world is completely disproportionate to its size. We are the undisputed leaders of technological change. But with our abundance of talent and resources, we also have the opportunity to be the pioneers of social change and, ultimately, this may be our greatest contribution.

Re graphics: A picture is worth 10K words - but only those to describe the picture. Hardly any sets of 10K words can be adequately described with pictures.

That can be a good tax planning tool for small businesses - especially if you get a computer or something that you were planning to buy (in the coming year anyway).

God never made his work for man to mend.

I want people to understand the amazing, positive way our software can make leisure time more enjoyable, and work and businesses more successful.

Computer Science is no more about computers than astronomy is about telescopes.

It is easier to change the specification to fit the program than vice versa.

We're seeing how the videos translate to the live shows and how the technology is really reaching kids.

The real problem is not whether machines think but whether men do.

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

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.

Build a program that even a fool can use, and only a fool will want to use it.

I think Microsoft named .Net so it wouldn’t show up in a Unix directory listing.

Science is not marginal. Like art, it is a universal possession of humanity, and scientific knowledge has become a vital part of our species' repertory. It comprises what we know of the material world with reasonable certainty. . . . Thanks to science and technology, access to factual information of all kinds is rising exponentially.

If at first you don't succeed; call it version 1.0.

There are only two industries that refer to their customers as ‘users’.

If you don't want to be replaced by a computer, don't act like one.