Technology Quotes

For systems, the analogue of a face-lift is to add to the control graph an edge that creates a cycle, not just an additional node.

Programming is an unnatural act.

Of course, the best way to get accurate information on Usenet is to post something wrong and wait for corrections.

The Net interprets censorship as damage and routes around it.

Well Microsoft really does develop some really interesting technology.

Windows isn't a virus, viruses do something.

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.

In headlines today, the dreaded killfile virus spread across the country adding 'aol.com' to people's Usenet kill files everywhere. The programmer of the virus still remains anonymous, but has been nominated several times for a Nobel peace prize.

The Internet? Is that thing still around?

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.

This is not a phone business. This is the smallest video camera, it's the smallest computer, smallest TV.

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.

There's a whole kind of hip element to it -- now I need this. Right smack in the middle of the 21st century, sophistication is marrying itself to a very old-fashioned notion of a table where you play games, long before television, video games and home computers. The deck of cards now has become cool again.

The purpose of medicine is to prevent significant disease, to decrease pain and to postpone death... Technology has to support these goals-if not, it may even be counterproductive.

If McDonalds were run like a software company, one out of every hundred Big Macs would give you food poisoning, and the response would be, ‘We’re sorry, here’s a coupon for two more.

Imagination is more important than knowledge. For knowledge is limited to all we now know and understand, while imagination embraces the entire world, and all there ever will be to know and understand.

Orchestras only need to be sworn at, and a German is consequently at an advantage with them, as English profanity, except in America, has not gone beyond a limited technology of perdition.

It's just like a computer. The more you load up, the slower it gets, the more issues arise.

When you’re young, you look at television and think, there’s a conspiracy. The networks have conspired to dumb us down. But when you get a little older, you realize that’s not true. The networks are in business to give people exactly what they want. That’s a far more depressing thought. Conspiracy is optimistic! You can shoot the bastards! We can have a revolution! But the networks are really in business to give people what they want. It’s the truth.

To turn really interesting ideas and fledgling technologies into a company that can continue to innovate for years, it requires a lot of disciplines.

One day soon the Gillette company will announce the development of a razor that, thanks to a computer microchip, can actually travel ahead in time and shave beard hairs that don't even exist yet.

If a program is useful, it will have to be changed.

Every program is a part of some other program and rarely fits.

You can define advertising as the science of creating and placing media that interrupts the consumer and then gets him or her to take some action.

Technology makes the world a new place.