Technology Quotes

They say if you play a Microsoft CD backwards, you hear satanic messages. Thats nothing, cause if you play it forwards, it installs Windows.

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.

The best way to prepare [to be a programmer] is to write programs, and to study great programs that other people have written. In my case, I went to the garbage cans at the Computer Science Center and fished out listings of their operating system.

Computers, huh? I've heard it all boils down to just a bunch of ones and zeroes.... I don't know how that enables me to see naked women, but however it works, God bless you guys.

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.

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

I think there is irony in the fact that the computer is both their chief venue of communication and propaganda and also the mother of all their fears.

Grove giveth and Gates taketh away.

If you give someone a program, you will frustrate them for a day; if you teach them how to program, you will frustrate them for a lifetime.

Computers are useless. They can only give you answers.

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

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

Microsoft has had its success by doing low-cost products and constantly improving those products and we've really redefined the IT industry to be something that's about a tool for individuals.

Innovation distinguishes between a leader and a follower.

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.

Humanity is acquiring all the right technology for all the wrong reasons.

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.

Life would be so much easier if we only had the source code.

Interfaces keep things tidy, but don't accelerate growth: Functions do.

In 20 or 30 years, you'll be able to hold in your hand as much computing knowledge as exists now in the whole city, or even the whole world.

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

A computer lets you make more mistakes faster than any invention in human history - with the possible exceptions of handguns and tequila.

I used to think that cyberspace was fifty years away. What I thought was fifty years away, was only ten years away. And what I thought was ten years away... it was already here. I just wasn't aware of it yet.

Web users ultimately want to get at data quickly and easily. They don't care as much about attractive sites and pretty design.

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.