Technology Quotes

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

If GM had kept up with technology like the computer industry has, we would all be driving $25 cars that got 1000 MPG.

Any code of your own that you haven’t looked at for six or more months might as well have been written by someone else.

God never made his work for man to mend.

If brute force doesn't solve your problems, then you aren't using enough.

We're only at the beginning of what we have to do here.

We really care about our brand. We really want it to stand for high quality. We want people to be excited about it, for it to be fun.

The computer reminds one of Lon Chaney -- it is the machine of a thousand faces.

From the time I was 7, when I purchased my first calculator, I was fascinated by the idea of a machine that could compute things.

We are very much believers that the web is an open environment, and we need to make sure that people can find all kinds of different stuff through Yahoo!, and not necessarily keeping people within Yahoo!

We hope that the Internet becomes even more affordable and more ubiquitous over time, and our mission at Yahoo! is to continue to keep our services available AND useful on all these platforms.

People always fear change. People feared electricity when it was invented, didn't they? People feared coal, they feared gas-powered engines... There will always be ignorance, and ignorance leads to fear. But with time, people will come to accept their silicon masters.

Programming today is a race between software engineers striving to build bigger and better idiot-proof programs, and the Universe trying to produce bigger and better idiots. So far, the Universe is winning.

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.

Within a computer natural language is unnatural.

When someone says "I want a programming language in which I need only say what I wish done," give him a lollipop.

Unix is user-friendly. It's just very selective about who its friends are.

Bill Gates is a very rich man today... and do you want to know why? The answer is one word: versions.

The Internet? Is that thing still around?

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

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

The great thing about Object Oriented code is that it can make small, simple problems look like large, complex ones.

The perfect computer has been developed. You just feed in your problems and they never come out again.

If a program is useful, it will have to be changed.

Be nice to geeks when you're in school, you might end-up working for one when you grow-up.