Technology Quotes

Macintosh computer are easy to use. It's also easy to stick your hand in a wood chipper.

That can be a good tax planning tool for small businesses - especially if you get a computer or something that you were planning to buy (in the coming year anyway).

Hacking is like sex. You get in, you get out, and hope that you didn't leave something that can be traced back to you.

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.

I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination. Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world.

Not until a program has been in production for at least six months will its most harmful error be discovered.

You can try to control people, or you can try to have a system that represents reality. I find that knowing what's really happening is more important than trying to control people.

The more I C, the less I see.

Vista is the the George W Bush of the technology industry.

The first 90% of the code accounts for the first 90% of the development time. The remaining 10% of the code accounts for the other 90% of the development time.

It is the framework which changes with each new technology and not just the picture within the frame.

Artificial Intelligence: the art of making computers that behave like the ones in movies.

The future masters of technology will have to be light-hearted and intelligent. The machine easily masters the grim and the dumb.

Every operating system out there is about equal… We all suck.

I have gotten everything from a one-page letter written in pencil to a 50-page computer generated masterpiece.

Results eventually reach a point at which a finer mesh no longer yields an appreciable difference. This type of convergence study helps generate accurate solutions with meshes that are sufficiently dense and yet not overly demanding of computer resources.

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

That’s what’s cool about working with computers. They don’t argue, they remember everything, and they don’t drink all your beer.

Kids today have so many advantages I never had. There's no telling what I could've accomplished with a home computer and a handgun.

Science and technology revolutionize our lives, but memory, tradition and myth frame our response.

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

I'm struck by the insidious, computer-driven tendency to take things out of the domain of muscular activity and put them into the domain of mental activity.

Get into a rut early: Do the same process the same way. Accumulate idioms. Standardize. The only difference(!) between Shakespeare and you was the size of his idiom list - not the size of his vocabulary.

The Internet is not just one thing, it's a collection of things - of numerous communications networks that all speak the same digital language.

My favorite thing about the Internet is that you get to go into the private world of real creeps without having to smell them.