Technology Quotes

Getting Information off the Internet is like taking a drink from a fire hydrant.

We always overestimate the change that will occur in the next two years and underestimate the change that will occur in the next ten. Don't let yourself be lulled into inaction.

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.

I think computer viruses should count as life. I think it says something about human nature that the only form of life we have created so far is purely destructive. We've created life in our own image.

To create a new standard it takes something that's not just a little bit different. It takes something that's really new and really captures people's imagination. And the Macintosh, of all the machines I've ever seen, is the only one that meets that standard.

These are best-of-breed computers for consumers looking for the best technology available for advanced multimedia and entertainment applications.

Simplicity does not precede complexity, but follows it.

Program complexity grows until it exceeds the capabilities of the programmer who must maintain it.

I'm not anti-social; I'm just not user friendly.

A world technology means either a world government or world suicide.

When someone says "I want a programming language in which I need only say what I wish done," give him a lollipop.

It is not the computer's fault that Maxwell's equations are not adequate to design the electric motor.

Complexity kills. It sucks the life out of developers, it makes products difficult to plan, build and test, it introduces security challenges, and it causes end-user and administrator frustration.

The Internet is the end of civilizations, cultures, interests and ethics.

Real programmers can write assembly code in any language.

If Gore invented the Internet, I invented spell-check.

Pentiums melt in your PC, not in your hand.

The most amazing achievement of the computer software industry is its continuing cancellation of the steady and staggering gains made by the computer hardware industry.

We will never become a truly paper-less society until the Palm Pilot folks come out with WipeMe 1.0.

AOL is like the cockroach left after the nuclear bomb hits. They know how to survive.

Beware of computer programmers that carry screwdrivers.

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

If Unix is the face of the future I want to go back to quill pens.

Programming today is a race between software engineers striving to build bigger and better idiot-proof programs, and the Universe trying to produce bigger and better idiots. So far, the Universe is winning.

Like punning, programming is a play on words.