Technology Quotes

The sooner you start coding a program, the longer it will take.

We always overestimate the change that will occur in the next two years and underestimate the change that will occur in the next ten. Don't let yourself be lulled into inaction.

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

The ultimate search engine would basically understand everything in the world, and it would always give you the right thing. And we're a long, long ways from that.

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

If you have a procedure with ten parameters, you probably missed some.

Style used to be an interaction between the human soul and tools that were limiting. In the digital era, it will have to come from the soul alone.

Technology without hatred can be a blessing. Technology with hatred is always a disaster.

The issues involved are sufficiently important that courses are now moving out of the philosophy departments and into mainstream computer science. And they affect everyone. Many of the students attracted to these courses are not technology majors, and many of the topics we discuss relate to ethical challenges that transcend the computer world.

Database: the information you lose when your memory crashes.

Pixar is the most technically advanced creative company; Apple is the most creatively advanced technical company.

My software never has bugs. It just develops random features.

The only constructive theory connecting neuroscience and psychology will arise from the study of software.

Computers can figure out all kinds of problems, except the things in the world that just don't add up.

There's a whole kind of hip element to it -- now I need this. Right smack in the middle of the 21st century, sophistication is marrying itself to a very old-fashioned notion of a table where you play games, long before television, video games and home computers. The deck of cards now has become cool again.

I had one simple idea about telling friends about arts and technology events. People in the community suggested everything else to us, and that's our theme. We're really run by the people who use the site. We just run the infrastructure, and help out with problems.

Capitalist production, therefore, develops technology, and the combining together of various processes into a social whole, only by sapping the original sources of all wealth - the soil and the labourer.

I am a hard-core believer that the clean desktop is the way to go... At the same time, we told OEMs that if they were going to put a bunch of icons on the desktop, then so were we.

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.

The factory of the future will have only two employees, a man and a dog. The man will be there to feed the dog. The dog will be there to keep the man from touching the equipment.

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

MS-DOS, an OS originally designed for a microprocessor that modern kitchen appliances would sneer at.

Any fool can use a computer. Many do.

The Internet is so big, so powerful and pointless that for some people it is a complete substitute for life.

The idea is that instead of going to an online retail site ... and buying a physical CD and having it shipped to you, you actually can buy the song and download the song to your computer hard drive.