Technology Quotes

Computer Science is embarrassed by the computer.

Saying that most of the computer was filled with personal images is simply not accurate.

We're making a major move of the Internet, and runway. Polo.com is a natural extension of both polo.com and our collection business.

I used to think that cyberspace was fifty years away. What I thought was fifty years away, was only ten years away. And what I thought was ten years away... it was already here. I just wasn't aware of it yet.

Apparently, Windows 98 is going to be renamed 'Diana, Princess of Windows'. It's overrated, overpriced, consumes loads of resources and crashes spectacularly...

Because of its vitality, the computing field is always in desperate need of new cliches: Banality soothes our nerves.

The best thing about a boolean is even if you are wrong, you are only off by a bit.

First words on the first telephone - "Mr. Watson -- come here -- I want to see you."

The first rule of any technology used in a business is that automation applied to an efficient operation will magnify the efficiency. The second is that automation applied to an inefficient operation will magnify the inefficiency.

The greatest danger in modern technology isn't that machines will begin to think like people, but that people will begin to think like machines.

We're seeing how the videos translate to the live shows and how the technology is really reaching kids.

You can either have software quality or you can have pointer arithmetic, but you cannot have both at the same time.

The medium is the message. This is merely to say that the personal and social consequences of any medium / that is, of any extension of ourselves / result from the new scale that is introduced into our affairs by each extension of ourselves, or by any new technology.

If a program is useful, it will have to be changed.

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

David and I and the rest of the Yahoos here really believe that the internet should remain as free as possible. At the same time we are a business and have fiscal responsibilities.

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.

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.

One good reason why computers can do more work than people is that they never have to stop and answer the phone.

Wherever there is modularity there is the potential for misunderstanding: Hiding information implies a need to check communication.

Live TV died in the late 1950s, electronic bulletin boards came along in the mid-1980s, meaning there was about a 25-year gap when it was difficult to put your foot in your mouth and have people all across the country know about it.

Bill Gates is so rich because he got his wish when he said: 'I wish I had a nickel for every time a PC reboots'.

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

The US Nuclear Security Administration runs the Blue Gene supercomputer. It is supposed to be the top super computer in the world ? and it runs on GNU Linux. Of the top 10 super computers in the world, seven run on GNU Linux. From a security point of view, there is a case to be made.

If computers get too powerful, we can organize them into a committee. That will do them in.