Technology Quotes

Windows 95: It's like upgrading from Reagan to Bush.

Wherever there is modularity there is the potential for misunderstanding: Hiding information implies a need to check communication.

People say Microsoft paid $14M for using the Rolling Stones song 'Start me up' in their commercials. This is wrong. Microsoft payed $14M only for a part of the song. For instance, they didn't use the line 'You'll make a grown man cry'.

Build a program that even a fool can use, and only a fool will want to use it.

Inside every small program is a large program struggling to get out.

What boots up must come down.

Fifty years of programming language research, and we end up with C++?

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

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

The mass majority of computer users are conservative. They want to use the software they're used to using.

Simplicity does not precede complexity, but follows it.

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

Technology without hatred can be a blessing. Technology with hatred is always a disaster.

The science of today is the technology of tomorrow.

Pixar is the most technically advanced creative company; Apple is the most creatively advanced technical company.

If I have seen further it is by standing on the shoulders of giants.

It's very important to remember that it's your intellectual property; it's not your computer. And in the pursuit of protection of intellectual property, it's important not to defeat or undermine the security measures that people need to adopt in these days.

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

You can try to control people, or you can try to have a system that represents reality. I find that knowing what's really happening is more important than trying to control people.

Back up my hard disk ? I can't find the reverse switch !

That can be a good tax planning tool for small businesses - especially if you get a computer or something that you were planning to buy (in the coming year anyway).

The Internet? Is that thing still around?

Well, another market is being created now out of Internet technology.

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.

In seeking the unattainable, simplicity only gets in the way.