Technology Quotes

The Internet is not just one thing, it's a collection of things - of numerous communications networks that all speak the same digital language.

A program is a spell cast over a computer, turning input into error messages.

When we first started, we would message all the time, ... He would log on, and mostly we would just message back and forth at the beginning of the relationship. Now, we use the computer, phones, letters, airlines - everything.

If two people write exactly the same program, each should be put into microcode and then they certainly won't be the same.

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.

Over the years, the U.S. economy has shown a remarkable ability to absorb shocks of all kinds, to recover, and to continue to grow. Flexible and efficient markets for labor and capital, an entrepreneurial tradition, and a general willingness to tolerate and even embrace technological and economic change all contribute to this resiliency.

Technology is always evolving, and companies.. not just search companies.. can't be afraid to take advantage of change.

Hey ! It compiles ! Ship it !

The Web is like a dominatrix. Everywhere I turn, I see little buttons ordering me to Submit.

Renewable energy is proven technology, the price is dropping, the rest of the world is going that way, that's where our investment should be going as well.

The danger from computers is not that they will eventually get as smart as men, but that we will meanwhile agree to meet them halfway.

The best book on programming for the layman is "Alice in Wonderland"; but that's because it's the best book on anything for the layman.

David and I and the rest of the Yahoos here really believe that the internet should remain as free as possible. At the same time we are a business and have fiscal responsibilities.

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.

We know by now that if we make technology the predestined force in our lives, man will walk to the measure of its demands. We know how leveling that influence can be, how easy it is to computerize man and make him a servile thing in a vast industrial complex. . . . This means we must subject the machine -- technology -- to control and cease despoiling the earth and filling people with goodies merely to make money.

Saying your OS is the best in the world 'cause more people use it is like saying McDonalds makes the best food in the world.

It is the user who should parameterize procedures, not their creators.

I get mail, therefore I am.

Hardware: where the people in your company's software section will tell you the problem is. Software: where the people in your company's hardware section will tell you the problem is.

Computer Science is embarrassed by the computer.

One would think that if you're anonymous, you'd do anything you want, but groups have their own sense of community and what we can do.

It is a tremendous responsibility for us to have all the eyes focused on what we do and give people exactly what they need when they ask for it.

Why is it drug addicts and computer afficionados are both called users?

One does not learn computing by using a hand calculator, but one can forget arithmetic.

The computer programmer is a creator of universes for which he alone is responsible. Universes of virtually unlimited complexity can be created in the form of computer programs.