Technology Quotes

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Bill Gates is the pope of the personal computer industry. He decides who's going to build.

Making something variable is easy. Controlling duration of constancy is the trick.

In programming, everything we do is a special case of something more general -- and often we know it too quickly.

You know you're a geek when... You try to shoo a fly away from the monitor with your cursor. That just happened to me. It was scary.

Microsoft: "You've got questions. We've got dancing paperclips."

It was never clear that it wouldn't just stop (the WWW). Any time during that exponential growth, it could have stalled. I think we were never very confident until 1993.

Our biggest demographic is the intelligent professional. They've got a computer on their desk, they've got a web browser and they check us out. We are many people's morning cup of coffee.

There never was a chip, it is said, that Bill Gates couldn't slow down with a new batch of features.

I don't want to be left behind. In fact, I want to be here before the action starts.

To understand a program you must become both the machine and the program.

We will never become a truly paper-less society until the Palm Pilot folks come out with WipeMe 1.0.

Measuring programming progress by lines of code is like measuring aircraft building progress by weight.

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.

WWW? Nice toy, but what a waste of time.

The Internet is becoming the town square for the global village of tomorrow.

I think it's fair to say that personal computers have become the most empowering tool we've ever created. They're tools of communication, they're tools of creativity, and they can be shaped by their user.

I'm a great believer in new technology and I think new technology is very scary for newspaper companies.

We're changing the world with technology.

Never trust a computer you can’t throw out a window.

You think you know when you can learn, are more sure when you can write, even more when you can teach, but certain when you can program.

If you can't make it good, at least make it look good.

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

Difference between a virus and windows ? Viruses rarely fail.

First and foremost, the Internet is unique since it is THE only interactive medium -- and that's important because from a content, service, and communications perspective, we web folks try to take advantage of that interactivity.