Technology Quotes

Five years ago, we thought of the Web as a new medium, not a new economy.

I think one of the big errors people are making right now is thinking that old-style businesses will be obsolete, when actually they will be an important part of this new civilization. Some retail groups are introducing e-commerce and think that the "bricks" are no longer useful. But they will continue to be important.

Better to be a geek than an idiot.

640K ought to be enough for anybody.

There’s an old story about the person who wished his computer were as easy to use as his telephone. That wish has come true, since I no longer know how to use my telephone.

Only ten percent of the code in any given program will ever execute.

First, solve the problem. Then, write the code.

Education makes machines which act like men and produces men who act like machines.

There are so many ways to heal. Arrogance may have a place in technology, but not in healing. I need to get out of my own way if I am to heal.

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

Ever notice how fast Windows runs ? — Neither did I.

We've heard that a million monkeys at a keyboard could produce the Complete Works of Shakespeare; now, thanks to the Internet, we know this is not true.

Renewable energy is proven technology, the price is dropping, the rest of the world is going that way, that's where our investment should be going as well.

The difference between e-mail and regular mail is that computers handle e-mail, and computers never decide to come to work one day and shoot all the other computers.

The computer is the ultimate polluter: its feces are indistinguish- able from the food it produces.

You can measure a programmer's perspective by noting his attitude on the continuing vitality of FORTRAN.

Computers in the future may have only 1,000 vacuum tubes and perhapsonly weigh 1 1/2 tons.

There are broken toilets left there, old computers and miscellaneous garbage. They are totally unsupervised. The recycling company is good, but when people want to dump trash, they dump trash.

I am sometimes something of a lazy person, so when I end up spending a lot of time using something myself — as I did with Google in the earliest of days, I knew it was a big deal.

There is a chasm of carbon and silicon the software can't bridge.

Often it is the means that justify the ends: Goals advance technique and technique survives even when goal structures crumble.

There are two ways to write error-free programs; only the third one works.

A computer is like an Old Testament god, with a lot of rules and no mercy.

Hey ! It compiles ! Ship it !

Mac users swear by their computers. PC users swear at their computers.