Technology Quotes

Technology: No Place for Wimps!

The Star Trek computer doesn't seem that interesting. They ask it random questions, it thinks for a while. I think we can do better than that.

Programming today is a race between software engineers striving to build bigger and better idiot-proof programs, and the Universe trying to produce bigger and better idiots. So far, the Universe is winning.

The best programmers are not marginally better than merely good ones. They are an order-of-magnitude better, measured by whatever standard: conceptual creativity, speed, ingenuity of design, or problem-solving ability.

This is not a phone business. This is the smallest video camera, it's the smallest computer, smallest TV.

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).

Computers will never replace good old-fashioned human stupidity.

If we continue to develop our technology without wisdom or prudence, our servant may prove to be our executioner.

Over time, it's becoming more and more understood by people that we're acting in their interests. And that's a very, very powerful thing for our brand.

Measuring programming progress by lines of code is like measuring aircraft building progress by weight.

I would love to change the world, but they won't give me the source code.

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

The Internet is like a giant jellyfish. You can't step on it. You can't go around it. You've got to get through it.

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

The best museums and museum exhibits about science or technology give you the feeling that, hey, this is interesting, but maybe I could do something here, too.

If computers get too powerful, we can organize them into committees. That'll do them in.

I’ve noticed lately that the paranoid fear of computers becoming intelligent and taking over the world has almost entirely disappeared from the common culture. Near as I can tell, this coincides with the release of MS-DOS.

Like car accidents, most hardware problems are due to driver error.

In computing, invariants are ephemeral.

'Intel Inside': The world's most widely used warning label.

If you look at the top 20 companies of the world, 19 of them are still brick-and-mortar companies. I have nothing against tech companies. What I am saying is that if you have a car manufacturer or an oil and gas manufacturer, you won’t get the supply over the Net.

What is the difference between a Turing machine and the modern computer? It's the same as that between Hillary's ascent of Everest and the establishment of a Hilton hotel on its peak.

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.

There never was a chip, it is said, that Bill Gates couldn't slow down with a new batch of features.

It would take a lot of time and effort (to repair the computers). And they can't run (programs and games) kids are interested in today. They're not even on the Internet. We wouldn't be offering them much of a carrot.