Technology Quotes

The sooner you start coding a program, the longer it will take.

The great thing about a computer notebook is that no matter how much you stuff into it, it doesn't get bigger or heavier.

In headlines today, the dreaded killfile virus spread across the country adding 'aol.com' to people's Usenet kill files everywhere. The programmer of the virus still remains anonymous, but has been nominated several times for a Nobel peace prize.

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.

Motto for a research laboratory: What we work on today, others will first think of tomorrow.

Web users ultimately want to get at data quickly and easily. They don't care as much about attractive sites and pretty design.

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

The Internet: where men are men, women are men, and children are FBI agents.

Science and technology revolutionize our lives, but memory, tradition and myth frame our response.

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

There's a great desire to be computer-savvy among those 50 and older. They're really hungry for it.

Controlling complexity is the essence of computer programming.

This is something we're very committed to, it's something that I think people are underestimating right now as they've seen some of the dot-com promises not come through. I think they're missing the fact that the basic technology is moving forward, the new platforms are here and this vision of the digital decade will be a reality.

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.

Programming is an unnatural act.

What is the difference between a Turing machine and the modern computer? It's the same as that between Hillary's ascent of Everest and the establishment of a Hilton hotel on its peak.

The fact that I have entered into IT-related business is proof that businesses have to evolve and keep with time. One has to re-invent continuously.

Windows 95: It's like upgrading from Reagan to Bush.

Orchestras only need to be sworn at, and a German is consequently at an advantage with them, as English profanity, except in America, has not gone beyond a limited technology of perdition.

Technology makes it possible for people to gain control over everything, except over technology.

NO, You cannot dial 911, I'm downloading my mail !!!

My understanding is their objective is to increase their capacity for the Internet, search engines. All I know is there's a lot of computers.

Don't have good ideas if you aren't willing to be responsible for them.

Be nice to nerds. Chances are you'll end up working for one.

Life would be so much easier if we only had the source code.