Technology Quotes

Five years ago, we thought of the Web as a new medium, not a new economy.

Overall, OS/2's problems fall into two categories: IBM and Microsoft.

As network administrator I can take down the network with one keystroke. It's just like being a doctor but without getting gooky stuff on my paws.

The best computer is a man, and it's the only one that can be mass-produced by unskilled labor.

The inside of a computer is as dumb as hell but it goes like mad!

It's not that we use technology, we live technology.

Windows NT crashed. I am the Blue Screen of Death. No one hears your screams.

You know you're a geek when... You try to shoo a fly away from the monitor with your cursor. That just happened to me. It was scary.

The digital revolution is far more significant than the invention of writing or even of printing.

What the country needs are a few labor-making inventions.

It makes life difficult ... because law changes very slowly. We have judges who did not grow up with computers and so many do not understand the technology and issues it raises.

They're growing at three to four times the personal computer market.

What do people mean when they say the computer went down on them?

If a program is useless, it will have to be documented.

Technology has the shelf life of a banana.

What boots up must come down.

Computers in the future may have only 1,000 vacuum tubes and perhapsonly weigh 1 1/2 tons.

I want people to understand the amazing, positive way our software can make leisure time more enjoyable, and work and businesses more successful.

The computer is the most extraordinary of man's technological clothing; it's an extension of our central nervous system. Beside it, the wheel is a mere hula-hoop.

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

Microsoft is not the answer. Microsoft is the question. NO is the answer.

There's a great desire to be computer-savvy among those 50 and older. They're really hungry for it.

To turn really interesting ideas and fledgling technologies into a company that can continue to innovate for years, it requires a lot of disciplines.

If brute force doesn't solve your problems, then you aren't using enough.

Calculations which required a $20 million machine eight years ago can be done on a Mac cluster costing about $11,000.