Technology Quotes

You can’t have great software without a great team, and most software teams behave like dysfunctional families.

It's pretty incredible to look back 30 years to when Microsoft was starting and realize how work has been transformed. We're finally getting close to what I call the digital workstyle.

I had one simple idea about telling friends about arts and technology events. People in the community suggested everything else to us, and that's our theme. We're really run by the people who use the site. We just run the infrastructure, and help out with problems.

If you automate a mess, you get an automated mess.

People say Microsoft paid $14M for using the Rolling Stones song 'Start me up' in their commercials. This is wrong. Microsoft payed $14M only for a part of the song. For instance, they didn't use the line 'You'll make a grown man cry'.

The great thing about a computer notebook is that no matter how much you stuff into it, it doesn't get bigger or heavier.

[Smart] is an elusive concept. There's a certain sharpness, an ability to absorb new facts. To ask an insightful question. To relate to domains that may not seem connected at first. A certain creativity that allows people to be effective.

Of course, the best way to get accurate information on Usenet is to post something wrong and wait for corrections.

There are three kinds of death in this world. There's heart death, there's brain death, and there's being off the network.

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

Imagination is more important than knowledge. For knowledge is limited to all we now know and understand, while imagination embraces the entire world, and all there ever will be to know and understand.

There are only two kinds of programming languages: those people always bitch about and those nobody uses.

There are two ways of constructing a software design. One way is to make it so simple that there are obviously no deficiencies. And the other way is to make it so complicated that there are no obvious deficiencies.

Orchestras only need to be sworn at, and a German is consequently at an advantage with them, as English profanity, except in America, has not gone beyond a limited technology of perdition.

Be nice to nerds. Chances are you'll end up working for one.

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

Writing code has a place in the human hierarchy worth somewhere above grave robbing and beneath managing.

Every program has (at least) two purposes: the one for which it was written, and another for which it wasn't.

Man is the best computer we can put aboard a spacecraft... and the only one that can be mass produced with unskilled labor.

Pixar is the most technically advanced creative company; Apple is the most creatively advanced technical company.

Computers can figure out all kinds of problems, except the things in the world that just don't add up.

Optimism is an occupational hazard of programming; feedback is the treatment.

The most exciting breakthroughs of the 21st century will not occur because of technology but because of an expanding concept of what it means to be human.

Daddy, what does FORMATTING DRIVE C mean?

Crap... Someone knocked over my recycle bin... There's icons all over my desktop...