Technology Quotes

As Will Rogers would have said, "There is no such thing as a free variable."

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In the long run every program becomes rococo - then rubble.

The demand for digital textbooks has increased since its introduction to the marketplace. As students become more familiar with them and computers get faster, larger and more portable, this product will gain in popularity.

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.

If at first you don't succeed; call it version 1.0.

I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination. Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world.

Technology presumes there's just one right way to do things and there never is.

It was never clear that it wouldn't just stop (the WWW). Any time during that exponential growth, it could have stalled. I think we were never very confident until 1993.

The term reboot comes from the middle age (before computers). Horses who stopped in mid-stride required a boot to the rear to start again. Thus the term to rear-boot, later abbreviated into reboot.

I wish life had an Undo function.

Systems have sub-systems and sub-systems have sub- systems and so on ad infinitum - which is why we're always starting over.

It’s really hard to design products by focus groups. A lot of times, people don’t know what they want until you show it to them.

The most important computer is the one that rages in our skulls and ever seeks that satisfactory external emulator. The standarization of real computers would be a disaster - and so it probably won't happen.

Over time, it's becoming more and more understood by people that we're acting in their interests. And that's a very, very powerful thing for our brand.

Hey ! It compiles ! Ship it !

Debugging is twice as hard as writing the code in the first place. Therefore, if you write the code as cleverly as possible, you are–by definition–not smart enough to debug it.

Do you realize if it weren't for Edison we'd be watching TV by candlelight?

If google made $1 everytime someone used them to find an answer to a tech support question, they would own microsoft.

It's hard for us in our stores to be a leader in technology.

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.

There are two ways to write error-free programs; only the third one works.

Bringing computers into the home won't change either one, but may revitalize the corner saloon.

SUPERCOMPUTER: what it sounded like before you bought it.

Never trust a computer you can’t throw out a window.