Technology Quotes

640K ought to be enough for anybody.

Think of all the psychic energy expended in seeking a fundamental distinction between "algorithm" and "program".

Imagine if every Thursday your shoes exploded if you tied them the usual way. This happens to us all the time with computers, and nobody thinks of complaining.

Our business is about technology, yes. But it's also about operations and customer relationships.

Daddy, what does FORMATTING DRIVE C mean?

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

WWW? Nice toy, but what a waste of time.

I get mail, therefore I am.

As Will Rogers would have said, "There is no such thing as a free variable."

There’s an old story about the person who wished his computer were as easy to use as his telephone. That wish has come true, since I no longer know how to use my telephone.

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.

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.

We have the mini and the micro computer. In what semantic niche would the pico computer fall?

Interfaces keep things tidy, but don't accelerate growth: Functions do.

If a program manipulates a large amount of data, it does so in a small number of ways.

The first rule of any technology used in a business is that automation applied to an efficient operation will magnify the efficiency. The second is that automation applied to an inefficient operation will magnify the inefficiency.

Overall, OS/2's problems fall into two categories: IBM and Microsoft.

The best museums and museum exhibits about science or technology give you the feeling that, hey, this is interesting, but maybe I could do something here, too.

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.

Things should be made as simple as possible, but not any simpler.

If you automate a mess, you get an automated mess.

It is not a language's weakness but its strengths that control the gradient of its change: Alas, a language never escapes its embryonic sac.

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

There's a lot of Google fascination out there and we share it, and we're going to compete, we're going to compete very, very hard.

A good system can't have a weak command language.