Technology Quotes

All of the books in the world contain no more information than is broadcast as video in a single large American city in a single year. Not all bits have equal value.

Think of it! With VLSI we can pack 100 ENIACS in 1 sq. cm.

Daddy, what does FORMATTING DRIVE C mean?

Don’t worry if it doesn’t work right. If everything did, you’d be out of a job.

A LISP programmer knows the value of everything, but the cost of nothing.

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

One man's constant is another man's variable.

Re graphics: A picture is worth 10K words - but only those to describe the picture. Hardly any sets of 10K words can be adequately described with pictures.

Our mission is to organize the world's information. Clearly, the more information we have when we do a search, the better it's going to work.

I think Amazon is the preeminent pioneer in building a new way of doing commerce: personalized, database-driven commerce, where the big value is not in the purchase fulfillment, but in knowing as much about a customer base of ten or twenty million people as a corner store used to know about a customer base of a few hundred. In today's mass-merchandising world, that's largely gone; Amazon is trying to use computer technology to re-establish it.

Any non-trivial program contains at least one error.

Around computers it is difficult to find the correct unit of time to measure progress. Some cathedrals took a century to complete. Can you imagine the grandeur and scope of a program that would take as long?

I am a hard-core believer that the clean desktop is the way to go... At the same time, we told OEMs that if they were going to put a bunch of icons on the desktop, then so were we.

The best museums and museum exhibits about science or technology give you the feeling that, hey, this is interesting, but maybe I could do something here, too.

A program without a loop and a structured variable isn't worth writing.

If debugging is the process of removing bugs, then programming must be the process of putting them in.

Some things Man was never meant to know. For everything else, there's Google.

The issues involved are sufficiently important that courses are now moving out of the philosophy departments and into mainstream computer science. And they affect everyone. Many of the students attracted to these courses are not technology majors, and many of the topics we discuss relate to ethical challenges that transcend the computer world.

It has been said that the great scientific disciplines are examples of giants standing on the shoulders of other giants. It has also been said that the software industry is an example of midgets standing on the toes of other midgets.

Renewable energy is proven technology, the price is dropping, the rest of the world is going that way, that's where our investment should be going as well.

Our business is about technology, yes. But it's also about operations and customer relationships.

There's a great desire to be computer-savvy among those 50 and older. They're really hungry for it.

I find sitting at a specially equipped desk in front of some pretty ugly plastics and staring at a little window is a very unnatural event.

Technology makes it possible for people to gain control over everything, except over technology.

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