Technology Quotes

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.

If google made $1 everytime someone used them to find an answer to a tech support question, they would own microsoft.

As Will Rogers would have said, "There is no such thing as a free variable."

Software is under a constant tension. Being symbolic it is arbitrarily perfectible; but also it is arbitrarily changeable.

The cybernetic exchange between man, computer and algorithm is like a game of musical chairs: The frantic search for balance always leaves one of the three standing ill at ease.

Ours is a world of nuclear giants and ethical infants. If we continue to develop our technology without wisdom or prudence, our servant may prove to be our executioner.

Style used to be an interaction between the human soul and tools that were limiting. In the digital era, it will have to come from the soul alone.

I’ve finally learned what ‘upward compatible’ means. It means we get to keep all our old mistakes.

We’re gambling on our vision, and we would rather do that than make “me too” products. Let some other companies do that. For us, it’s always the next dream.

It’s really hard to design products by focus groups. A lot of times, people don’t know what they want until you show it to them.

Computers are getting smarter all the time. Scientists tell us that soon they will be able to talk to us. (And by ‘they’, I mean ‘computers’. I doubt scientists will ever be able to talk to us.)

We're changing the world with technology.

The most exciting breakthroughs of the 21st century will not occur because of technology but because of an expanding concept of what it means to be human.

Technology is a gift of God. After the gift of life it is perhaps the greatest of God's gifts. It is the mother of civilizations, of arts and of sciences.

640K ought to be enough for anybody.

If a program manipulates a large amount of data, it does so in a small number of ways.

I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination. Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world.

They have computers, and they may have other weapons of mass destruction.

Computer Science is embarrassed by the computer.

If you look at the top 20 companies of the world, 19 of them are still brick-and-mortar companies. I have nothing against tech companies. What I am saying is that if you have a car manufacturer or an oil and gas manufacturer, you won’t get the supply over the Net.

The effort required to correct an error increases exponentially with time.

The interesting thing is when we design and architect a server, we don't design it for Windows or Linux, we design it for both. We don't really care, as long as we're selling the one the customer wants.

Symmetry is a complexity-reducing concept (co-routines include subroutines); seek it everywhere.

The trouble with programmers is that you can never tell what a programmer is doing until it’s too late.

They should never have entered him in that computer. It's just common sense? that's the bottom line. I don't think it should have gotten this far.