Technology Quotes

Any code of your own that you haven’t looked at for six or more months might as well have been written by someone else.

This is something we're very committed to, it's something that I think people are underestimating right now as they've seen some of the dot-com promises not come through. I think they're missing the fact that the basic technology is moving forward, the new platforms are here and this vision of the digital decade will be a reality.

The technologies which have had the most profound effects on human life are usually simple.

I want people to understand the amazing, positive way our software can make leisure time more enjoyable, and work and businesses more successful.

Men are from Mars. Women are from Venus. Computers are from hell.

Don't have good ideas if you aren't willing to be responsible for them.

The string is a stark data structure and everywhere it is passed there is much duplication of process. It is a perfect vehicle for hiding information.

Back up my hard disk ? I can't find the reverse switch !

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

It is extremely unlikely that anyone coming out of school with a technical degree will go into one area and stay there. Today's students have to look forward to the excitement of probably having three or four careers.

WinNT: All the headaches of Unix, but in a pretty, windowed environment.

A Windows user spends 1/3 of his life sleeping, 1/3 working, 1/3 waiting.

Hey ! It compiles ! Ship it !

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.

In view of all the deadly computer viruses that have been spreading lately, Weekend Update would like to remind you: when you link up to another computer, you're linking up to every computer that that computer has ever linked up to.

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Giving up on assembly language was the apple in our Garden of Eden: Languages whose use squanders machine cycles are sinful. The LISP machine now permits LISP programmers to abandon bra and fig-leaf.

We started putting together a "hotlist" of favorite sites from David and myself, and we called it "Jerry's Guide to the World Wide Web" Before we knew it, people from all over the world were using this database that we created.

It would appear that we have reached the limits of what it is possible to achieve with computer technology, although one should be careful with such statements, as they tend to sound pretty silly in 5 years.

Technology does not drive change -- it enables change.

The telephone wire, as we know it, has become too slow and too small to handle Internet traffic. It took 75 years for telephones to be used by 50 million customers, but it took only four years for the Internet to reach that many users.

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

The probability of a flawless demo is inversely proportional to the number of people watching, raised to the power of the amount of money involved.

In programming, as in everything else, to be in error is to be reborn.

David and I and the rest of the Yahoos here really believe that the internet should remain as free as possible. At the same time we are a business and have fiscal responsibilities.