Technology Quotes

The danger from computers is not that they will eventually get as smart as men, but that we will meanwhile agree to meet them halfway.

The "Net is a waste of time, and that's exactly what's right about it.

In June 1994, while it is still our hobby, we renamed it "yahoo" to stand for "yet another hierarchical officious oracle".

First learn computer science and all the theory. Next develop a programming style. Then forget all that and just hack.

The insanity of the collective egoic mind, amplified by science and technology, is rapidly taking our species to the brink of disaster. Evolve or die: that is our only choice now.

If Unix is the face of the future I want to go back to quill pens.

Americans have the right to have their medical decisions made by them and their doctors, and not by those bureaucrats sitting behind a computer screen hundreds of miles away.

Windows is just DOS in drag.

Not everything that can be counted counts, and not everything that counts can be counted.

Things should be made as simple as possible, but not any simpler.

Programmers are tools for converting caffeine into code.

Programming is an unnatural act.

COBOL programmers understand why women hate periods.

Everything should be built top-down, except the first time.

Yesterday it worked Today it is not working Windows is like that

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

I find sitting at a specially equipped desk in front of some pretty ugly plastics and staring at a little window is a very unnatural event.

Beware of the Turing tar-pit in which everything is possible but nothing of interest is easy.

Within a computer natural language is unnatural.

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

We hope that the Internet becomes even more affordable and more ubiquitous over time, and our mission at Yahoo! is to continue to keep our services available AND useful on all these platforms.

Build a program that even a fool can use, and only a fool will want to use it.

Technology is so much fun but we can drown in our technology. The fog of information can drive out knowledge.

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.

As Will Rogers would have said, "There is no such thing as a free variable."