Technology Quotes

Sometimes I think the only universal in the computing field is the fetch-execute cycle.

Microsoft is not the answer. Microsoft is the question. NO is the answer.

Complexity kills. It sucks the life out of developers, it makes products difficult to plan, build and test, it introduces security challenges, and it causes end-user and administrator frustration.

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

Technology... is a queer thing. It brings you great gifts with one hand, and it stabs you in the back with the other.

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

Computers have lots of memory but no imagination.

It is not a language's weakness but its strengths that control the gradient of its change: Alas, a language never escapes its embryonic sac.

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

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.

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

First words on the first telephone - "Mr. Watson -- come here -- I want to see you."

A programmer is a person who passes as an exacting expert on the basis of being able to turn out, after innumerable punching, an infinite series of incomprehensive answers calculated with micrometric precisions from vague assumptions based on debatable figures taken from inconclusive documents and carried out on instruments of problematical accuracy by persons of dubious reliability and questionable mentality for the avowed purpose of annoying and confounding a hopelessly defenseless department that was unfortunate enough to ask for the information in the first place.

The number one benefit of information technology is that it empowers people to do what they want to do. It lets people be creative. It lets people be productive. It lets people learn things they didn't think they could learn before, and so in a sense it is all about potential.

One can only display complex information in the mind. Like seeing, movement or flow or alteration of view is more important than the static picture, no matter how lovely.

If Gore invented the Internet, I invented spell-check.

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

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

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.

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

This is a big deal. It's a fairly natural partnership; it shouldn't surprise people, ... We're working on bringing this network-is-the-computer, Net services environment.

If I had taken a proprietary control of the Web, then it would never have taken off. People only committed their time to it because they knew it was open, shared: that they could help decide what would happen to it next.. and I wouldn't be raking off 10%!

Computer Science is embarrassed by the computer.

Today is a... digital incarnation of Oz - the Internet - we are a motley group of fools from lions to scarecrows, learning from each other, making and taking responsibility for our decisions, and having fun as we skip down the yellow brick road of investing together!

Moore's Law - The number of transistors and resistors on a chip doubles every 24 months