Technology Quotes

If your computer speaks English, it was probably made in Japan.

As technology advances, it reverses the characteristics of every situation again and again. The age of automation is going to be the age of "do it yourself".

I still have my laptop but I haven't used it. I'm a paper man, not electronic.

We are very much believers that the web is an open environment, and we need to make sure that people can find all kinds of different stuff through Yahoo!, and not necessarily keeping people within Yahoo!

Live TV died in the late 1950s, electronic bulletin boards came along in the mid-1980s, meaning there was about a 25-year gap when it was difficult to put your foot in your mouth and have people all across the country know about it.

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.

Microsoft has a new version out, Windows XP, which according to everybody is the ‘most reliable Windows ever.‘ To me, this is like saying that asparagus is ‘the most articulate vegetable ever.

Be nice to nerds. Chances are you'll end up working for one.

Early on, when software was developed by computer scientists, just people working with computers, people passed around software because that was how you got computers to do things.

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

The system of nature, of which man is a part, tends to be self-balancing, self-adjusting, self-cleansing. Not so with technology.

Life is about family and technology.

Computers are getting smarter all the time. Scientists tell us that soon they will be able to talk to us. (And by ‘they’, I mean ‘computers’. I doubt scientists will ever be able to talk to us.)

The best computer is a man, and it's the only one that can be mass-produced by unskilled labor.

Inside every small program is a large program struggling to get out.

The effort required to correct an error increases exponentially with time.

Computers will never replace good old-fashioned human stupidity.

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

Every operating system out there is about equal… We all suck.

The only business that is ever threatened by improved technologies are those that need to be left behind.

Most of you are familiar with the virtues of a programmer. There are three, of course: laziness, impatience, and hubris.

We kid ourselves if we think that the ratio of procedure to data in an active data-base system can be made arbitrarily small or even kept small.

The Web is like a dominatrix. Everywhere I turn, I see little buttons ordering me to Submit.

Three things are certain: Death, taxes, and lost data. Guess which has occurred.

Spending an evening on the World Wide Web is much like sitting down to a dinner of Cheetos, two hours later your fingers are yellow and you're no longer hungry, but you haven't been nourished.