Technology Quotes

Our mission is to organize the world's information. Clearly, the more information we have when we do a search, the better it's going to work.

Five years ago, we thought of the Web as a new medium, not a new economy.

Never let a computer know you're in a hurry.

Computers are magnificent tools for the realization of our dreams, but no machine can replace the human spark of spirit, compassion, love, and understanding.

Western society has accepted as unquestionable a technological imperative that is quite as arbitrary as the most primitive taboo: not merely the duty to foster invention and constantly to create technological novelties, but equally the duty to surrender to these novelties unconditionally, just because they are offered, without respect to their human consequences.

A complex system that works is invariably found to have evolved from a simple system that worked.

Technology is so much fun but we can drown in our technology. The fog of information can drive out knowledge.

It is practically impossible to teach good programming style to students that have had prior exposure to BASIC. As potential programmers, they are mentally mutilated beyond hope of regeneration.

I used to think that cyberspace was fifty years away. What I thought was fifty years away, was only ten years away. And what I thought was ten years away... it was already here. I just wasn't aware of it yet.

Computers are like air conditioners: they stop working when you open windows.

Because of its vitality, the computing field is always in desperate need of new cliches: Banality soothes our nerves.

WinNT: All the headaches of Unix, but in a pretty, windowed environment.

There's no set architecture in Linux. All roads lead to madness.

We have technology, finally, that for the first time in human history allows people to really maintain rich connections with much larger numbers of people.

The eleventh commandment was "Thou Shalt Compute" or "Thou Shalt Not Compute" - I forget which.

First we thought the PC was a calculator. Then we found out how to turn numbers into letters with ASCII — and we thought it was a typewriter. Then we discovered graphics, and we thought it was a television. With the World Wide Web, we've realized it's a brochure.

I’ve finally learned what ‘upward compatible’ means. It means we get to keep all our old mistakes.

Mac users swear by their computers. PC users swear at their computers.

These are best-of-breed computers for consumers looking for the best technology available for advanced multimedia and entertainment applications.

The most exciting breakthroughs of the 21st century will not occur because of technology but because of an expanding concept of what it means to be human.

Never before in history has innovation offered promise of so much to so many in so short a time.

Ours is a world of nuclear giants and ethical infants. If we continue to develop our technology without wisdom or prudence, our servant may prove to be our executioner.

They're growing at three to four times the personal computer market.

When we first started, we would message all the time, ... He would log on, and mostly we would just message back and forth at the beginning of the relationship. Now, we use the computer, phones, letters, airlines - everything.

Computers, huh? I've heard it all boils down to just a bunch of ones and zeroes.... I don't know how that enables me to see naked women, but however it works, God bless you guys.