Technology Quotes

If computers get too powerful, we can organize them into committees. That'll do them in.

If a listener nods his head when you're explaining your program, wake him up.

It is easier to change the specification to fit the program than vice versa.

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.

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.

If the human race wants to go to hell in a basket, technology can help it get there by jet.

If brute force doesn't solve your problems, then you aren't using enough.

I believe that this notion of self-publishing, which is what Blogger and blogging are really about, is the next big wave of human communication. The last big wave was Web activity. Before that one it was e-mail. Instant messaging was an extension of e-mail, real-time e-mail.

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

Mac users swear by their computers. PC users swear at their computers.

Spending an evening on the World Wide Web is much like sitting down to a dinner of Cheetos, two hours later your fingers are yellow and you're no longer hungry, but you haven't been nourished.

There is no programming language–no matter how structured–that will prevent programmers from making bad programs.

For a list of all the ways technology has failed to improve the quality of life, please press three.

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.

In all large corporations, there is a pervasive fear that someone, somewhere is having fun with a computer on company time. Networks help alleviate that fear.

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

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.

Back up my hard drive? How do I put it in reverse?

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

My favorite thing about the Internet is that you get to go into the private world of real creeps without having to smell them.

Because of its vitality, the computing field is always in desperate need of new cliches: Banality soothes our nerves.

There's a lot of Google fascination out there and we share it, and we're going to compete, we're going to compete very, very hard.

The use of COBOL cripples the mind; its teaching should therefore be regarded as a criminal offense.

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.

It has become appallingly obvious that our technology has exceeded our humanity.