Technology Quotes

Windows NT addresses 2 Gigabytes of RAM, which is more than any application will ever need.

The computer is the ultimate polluter: its feces are indistinguish- able from the food it produces.

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

In all large corporations, there is a pervasive fear that someone, somewhere is having fun with a computer on company time. Networks help alleviate that fear.

eBay's business is based on enabling someone to do business with another person, and to do that, they first have to develop some measure of trust, either in the other person or the system.

Always code as if the guy who ends up maintaining your code will be a violent psychopath who knows where you live.

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.

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.

It is practically impossible to teach good programming style to students that have had prior exposure to BASIC. As potential programmers, they are mentally mutilated beyond hope of regeneration.

Sometimes I think the only universal in the computing field is the fetch-execute cycle.

Technology... is a queer thing. It brings you great gifts with one hand, and it stabs you in the back with the other.

The goal of computation is the emulation of our synthetic abilities, not the understanding of our analytic ones.

As we go forward, I hope we're going to continue to use technology to make really big differences in how people live and work.

Results eventually reach a point at which a finer mesh no longer yields an appreciable difference. This type of convergence study helps generate accurate solutions with meshes that are sufficiently dense and yet not overly demanding of computer resources.

We hope that the Internet becomes even more affordable and more ubiquitous over time, and our mission at Yahoo! is to continue to keep our services available AND useful on all these platforms.

If we continue to develop our technology without wisdom or prudence, our servant may prove to be our executioner.

Technological progress is like an axe in the hands of a pathological criminal.

So many good ideas are never heard from again once they embark in a voyage on the semantic gulf.

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

The Linux philosophy is "Laugh in the face of danger". Oops. Wrong One. "Do it yourself". Yes, that's it.

Part of the inhumanity of the computer is that, once it is competently programmed and working smoothly, it is completely honest.

Too few people in computer science are aware of some of the informational challenges in biology and their implications for the world. We can store an incredible amount of data very cheaply.

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.

Everyone has a right to a university degree in America, even if it's in Hamburger Technology.

Real programmers can write assembly code in any language.