Technology Quotes

Anyone who spends their life on a computer is pretty unusual.

Many people see technology as the problem behind the so-called digital divide. Others see it as the solution. Technology is neither. It must operate in conjunction with business, economic, political and social system.

That’s what’s cool about working with computers. They don’t argue, they remember everything, and they don’t drink all your beer.

Treat your password like your toothbrush. Don't let anybody else use it, and get a new one every six months.

The technologies which have had the most profound effects on human life are usually simple.

Wherever there is modularity there is the potential for misunderstanding: Hiding information implies a need to check communication.

A world technology means either a world government or world suicide.

To create a new standard it takes something that's not just a little bit different. It takes something that's really new and really captures people's imagination. And the Macintosh, of all the machines I've ever seen, is the only one that meets that standard.

I hope that the internet will get to become ubiquitous and affordable, and if that's achieved, I think it'll be a big part of people's lives - for the better.

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

If McDonalds were run like a software company, one out of every hundred Big Macs would give you food poisoning, and the response would be, ‘We’re sorry, here’s a coupon for two more.

Some say Google is God. Others say Google is Satan. But if they think Google is too powerful, remember that with search engines unlike other companies, all it takes is a single click to go to another search engine.

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

Inside every small program is a large program struggling to get out.

Like car accidents, most hardware problems are due to driver error.

When we write programs that "learn", it turns out that we do and they don't.

Beware of computer programmers that carry screwdrivers.

Vista is the the George W Bush of the technology industry.

A program is never less than 90% complete, and never more than 95% complete.

The most important and urgent problems of the technology of today are no longer the satisfactions of primary needs or of archetypal wishes, but the reparation of the evils and damages by technology of yesterday.

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!

A friend called me up the other day and talked about investing in a dot-com that sells lobsters. Internet lobsters. Where will this end? The next day he sent me a huge package of lobsters on ice. How low can you stoop?

The only constructive theory connecting neuroscience and psychology will arise from the study of software.

Worth noting: running 'reboot -h' does NOT produce a helpful usage message.

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.