Technology Quotes

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

Never before in history has innovation offered promise of so much to so many in so short a time.

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

A program is never less than 90% complete, and never more than 95% complete.

The telephone wire, as we know it, has become too slow and too small to handle Internet traffic. It took 75 years for telephones to be used by 50 million customers, but it took only four years for the Internet to reach that many users.

Apple really hasn't weighed in on the sub-$1,000 computer category. Their next step could be refreshing their current products and making pricing changes.

Just about anyone can pass if they have a home computer and are a quick study.

SUPERCOMPUTER: what it sounded like before you bought it.

Documentation is like term insurance: It satisfies because almost no one who subscribes to it depends on its benefits.

Our mission is to organize the world's information. Clearly, the more information we have when we do a search, the better it's going to work.

First and foremost, the Internet is unique since it is THE only interactive medium -- and that's important because from a content, service, and communications perspective, we web folks try to take advantage of that interactivity.

Grove giveth and Gates taketh away.

There are broken toilets left there, old computers and miscellaneous garbage. They are totally unsupervised. The recycling company is good, but when people want to dump trash, they dump trash.

Life would be so much easier if we only had the source code.

Think of all the psychic energy expended in seeking a fundamental distinction between "algorithm" and "program".

Windows is just DOS in drag.

They say if you play a Microsoft CD backwards, you hear satanic messages. Thats nothing, cause if you play it forwards, it installs Windows.

The last good thing written in C++ was the Pachelbel Canon.

A thunderstorm is God's way of saying you spend too much time in front of the computer.

Most software today is very much like an Egyptian pyramid with millions of bricks piled on top of each other, with no structural integrity, but just done by brute force and thousands of slaves.

Around computers it is difficult to find the correct unit of time to measure progress. Some cathedrals took a century to complete. Can you imagine the grandeur and scope of a program that would take as long?

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.

Computers make it easier to do a lot of things, but most of the things they make it easier to do don't need to be done.

Beware of computer programmers that carry screwdrivers.

Technology makes it possible for people to gain control over everything, except over technology.