Technology Quotes

The digital revolution is far more significant than the invention of writing or even of printing.

There are two ways to write error-free programs; only the third one works.

Every day were saying, 'How can we keep this customer happy?' How can we get ahead in innovation by doing this, because if we don't, somebody else will.

'Intel Inside': The world's most widely used warning label.

A computer makes it possible to do, in half an hour, tasks which were completely unnecessary to do before.

Three things are certain: Death, taxes, and lost data. Guess which has occurred.

Early on, when software was developed by computer scientists, just people working with computers, people passed around software because that was how you got computers to do things.

Computation has made the tree flower.

Everyone has a right to a university degree in America, even if it's in Hamburger Technology.

We don’t have a traditional strategy process, planning process like you’d find in traditional technical companies. It allows Google to innovate very, very quickly, which I think is a real strength of the company.

Think of it! With VLSI we can pack 100 ENIACS in 1 sq. cm.

A Windows user spends 1/3 of his life sleeping, 1/3 working, 1/3 waiting.

Technology is just a tool. In terms of getting the kids working together and motivating them, the teacher is the most important.

INSERT DISK THREE' ? But I can only get two in the drive !

Technology makes the world a new place.

Within a computer natural language is unnatural.

I find sitting at a specially equipped desk in front of some pretty ugly plastics and staring at a little window is a very unnatural event.

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..

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

If the automobile had followed the same development cycle as the computer, a Rolls-Royce would today cost $100, get a million miles per gallon, and explode once a year, killing everyone inside.

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

Everyone can be taught to sculpt: Michelangelo would have had to be taught not to. So it is with great programmers.

As soon as we started programming, we found to our surprise that it wasn’t as easy to get programs right as we had thought. Debugging had to be discovered. I can remember the exact instant when I realized that a large part of my life from then on was going to be spent in finding mistakes in my own programs.

If a program is useless, it will have to be documented.

There is a chasm of carbon and silicon the software can't bridge.