Technology Quotes

If GM had kept up with technology like the computer industry has, we would all be driving $25 cars that got 1000 MPG.

Unix was not designed to stop you from doing stupid things, because that would also stop you from doing clever things.

I don't want to be left behind. In fact, I want to be here before the action starts.

The computer reminds one of Lon Chaney -- it is the machine of a thousand faces.

A friend called me up the other day and talked about investing in a dot-com that sells lobsters. Internet lobsters. Where will this end? The next day he sent me a huge package of lobsters on ice. How low can you stoop?

Technology makes the world a new place.

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

We are very much believers that the web is an open environment, and we need to make sure that people can find all kinds of different stuff through Yahoo!, and not necessarily keeping people within Yahoo!

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.

Once a new technology rolls over you, if you're not part of the steamroller, you're part of the road.

Anyone who spends their life on a computer is pretty unusual.

It was never clear that it wouldn't just stop (the WWW). Any time during that exponential growth, it could have stalled. I think we were never very confident until 1993.

The bulk of all patents are crap. Spending time reading them is stupid. It’s up to the patent owner to do so, and to enforce them.

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.

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

All of the books in the world contain no more information than is broadcast as video in a single large American city in a single year. Not all bits have equal value.

I'm a great believer in new technology and I think new technology is very scary for newspaper companies.

When we first started, we would message all the time, ... He would log on, and mostly we would just message back and forth at the beginning of the relationship. Now, we use the computer, phones, letters, airlines - everything.

Computers are like air conditioners: they stop working when you open windows.

I see no progress in this industry. These clocks are no faster than the ones they made a hundred years ago.

The march of science and technology does not imply growing intellectual complexity in the lives of most people. It often means the opposite.

America's technology has turned in upon itself; its corporate form makes it the servant of profits, not the servant of human needs.

Software companies should take more responsibility for security holes, especially in browsers and e-mail clients. There are some straightforward things the industry should be doing right now to fix things, and I don't know why they haven't been done yet.

Bill Gates is the pope of the personal computer industry. He decides who's going to build.

Science is not marginal. Like art, it is a universal possession of humanity, and scientific knowledge has become a vital part of our species' repertory. It comprises what we know of the material world with reasonable certainty. . . . Thanks to science and technology, access to factual information of all kinds is rising exponentially.