Technology Quotes

We're only at the beginning of what we have to do here.

We started putting together a "hotlist" of favorite sites from David and myself, and we called it "Jerry's Guide to the World Wide Web" Before we knew it, people from all over the world were using this database that we created.

There is only one satisfying way to boot a computer.

Technology is just a tool. In terms of getting the kids working together and motivating them, the teacher is the most important.

Some people think technology has the answers.

One of the main causes of the fall of the Roman Empire was that–lacking zero–they had no way to indicate successful termination of their C programs.

Computers can figure out all kinds of problems, except the things in the world that just don't add up.

Anyone who has lost track of time when using a computer knows the propensity to dream, the urge to make dreams come true and the tendency to miss lunch.

A friend called me up the other day and talked about investing in a dot-com that sells lobsters. Internet lobsters. Where will this end? The next day he sent me a huge package of lobsters on ice. How low can you stoop?

High technology has done us one great service: It has retaught us the delight of performing simple and primordial tasks - chopping wood, building a fire, drawing water from a spring.

Controlling complexity is the essence of computer programming.

A computer will do what you tell it to do, but that may be much different from what you had in mind.

Most of you are familiar with the virtues of a programmer. There are three, of course: laziness, impatience, and hubris.

It is better to have 100 functions operate on one data structure than 10 functions on 10 data structures.

Never let a computer know you're in a hurry.

An adequate bootstrap is a contradiction in terms.

We are very much believers that the web is an open environment, and we need to make sure that people can find all kinds of different stuff through Yahoo!, and not necessarily keeping people within Yahoo!

When we first started, we would message all the time, ... He would log on, and mostly we would just message back and forth at the beginning of the relationship. Now, we use the computer, phones, letters, airlines - everything.

There is so much media now with the Internet and people, and so easy and so cheap to start a newspaper or start a magazine, there’s just millions of voices and people want to be heard.

Software companies should take more responsibility for security holes, especially in browsers and e-mail clients. There are some straightforward things the industry should be doing right now to fix things, and I don't know why they haven't been done yet.

The sooner you start coding a program, the longer it will take.

Steve Jobs may have the apple, but Bill Gates has the entire orchard !

To err is human, but to really foul things up requires a computer.

I just bought a Mac to help me design the next Cray.

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