Technology Quotes

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

It is not about bits, bytes and protocols, but profits, losses and margins.

One does not learn computing by using a hand calculator, but one can forget arithmetic.

The real problem is not whether machines think but whether men do.

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.

Double your drive space — delete Windows !

NO, You cannot dial 911, I'm downloading my mail !!!

WWW? Nice toy, but what a waste of time.

We don’t have a traditional strategy process, planning process like you’d find in traditional technical companies. It allows Google to innovate very, very quickly, which I think is a real strength of the company.

Why do we want intelligent terminals when there are so many stupid users ?

Almost everybody today believes that nothing in economic history has ever moved as fast as, or had a greater impact than, the Information Revolution. But the Industrial Revolution moved at least as fast in the same time span, and had probably an equal impact if not a greater one.

Advances in computer technology and the Internet have changed the way America works, learns, and communicates. The Internet has become an integral part of America's economic, political, and social life.

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

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

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.

It is questionable if all the mechanical inventions yet made have lightened the day's toil of any human being.

Americans have the right to have their medical decisions made by them and their doctors, and not by those bureaucrats sitting behind a computer screen hundreds of miles away.

A program is never less than 90% complete, and never more than 95% complete.

When we understand knowledge-based systems, it will be as before -- except our fingertips will have been singed.

Technology is so much fun but we can drown in our technology. The fog of information can drive out knowledge.

Silos can't interoperate unless the technology does.

C++ : Where friends have access to your private members.

The computer is a moron.

It is not a language's weakness but its strengths that control the gradient of its change: Alas, a language never escapes its embryonic sac.

I think one of the big errors people are making right now is thinking that old-style businesses will be obsolete, when actually they will be an important part of this new civilization. Some retail groups are introducing e-commerce and think that the "bricks" are no longer useful. But they will continue to be important.