Technology Quotes

The bulk of all patents are crap. Spending time reading them is stupid. It’s up to the patent owner to do so, and to enforce them.

If debugging is the process of removing bugs, then programming must be the process of putting them in.

Pentiums melt in your PC, not in your hand.

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

We really care about our brand. We really want it to stand for high quality. We want people to be excited about it, for it to be fun.

The technology at the leading edge changes so rapidly that you have to keep current after you get out of school. I think probably the most important thing is having good fundamentals.

There used to be this country called the Soviet Union; it's not there anymore. Our technology was better than theirs.

COBOL programmers understand why women hate periods.

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

Look at growth, look at how much time people spend on the Net and look at the variety of things that they are doing. It's all really good, so I am actually encouraged by the fundamentals that underlie usage growth on the Net.

We're seeing how the videos translate to the live shows and how the technology is really reaching kids.

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.

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

Documentation is like term insurance: It satisfies because almost no one who subscribes to it depends on its benefits.

Imagine a school with children that can read or write, but with teachers who cannot, and you have a metaphor of the Information Age in which we live.

Advances in computer technology and the Internet have changed the way America works, learns, and communicates. The Internet has become an integral part of America's economic, political, and social life.

The use of a program to prove the 4-color theorem will not change mathematics - it merely demonstrates that the theorem, a challenge for a century, is probably not important to mathematics.

Innovation distinguishes between a leader and a follower.

We've heard that a million monkeys at a keyboard could produce the Complete Works of Shakespeare; now, thanks to the Internet, we know this is not true.

There are managers so preoccupied with their e-mail messages that they never look up from their screens to see what's happening in the nondigital world.

It’s ridiculous to live 100 years and only be able to remember 30 million bytes. You know, less than a compact disc. The human condition is really becoming more obsolete every minute.

There are broken toilets left there, old computers and miscellaneous garbage. They are totally unsupervised. The recycling company is good, but when people want to dump trash, they dump trash.

There is only one satisfying way to boot a computer.

The protection of personal information stored on our nation's computer systems is critical to public trust in those networks and to the health of our economy.

There are so many ways to heal. Arrogance may have a place in technology, but not in healing. I need to get out of my own way if I am to heal.