Technology Quotes

Technology happens, it's not good, it's not bad. Is steel good or bad?

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.

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.

Innovation distinguishes between a leader and a follower.

eBay's business is based on enabling someone to do business with another person, and to do that, they first have to develop some measure of trust, either in the other person or the system.

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

A programming language is low level when its programs require attention to the irrelevant.

Well, another market is being created now out of Internet technology.

Kids today have so many advantages I never had. There's no telling what I could've accomplished with a home computer and a handgun.

The world is coming to an end... SAVE YOUR BUFFERS!

A great lathe operator commands several times the wage of an average lathe operator, but a great writer of software code is worth 10,000 times the price of an average software writer.

Saying that most of the computer was filled with personal images is simply not accurate.

Some programming languages manage to absorb change, but withstand progress.

The perfect computer has been developed. You just feed in your problems and they never come out again.

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

It is easier to write an incorrect program than understand a correct one.

You think you know when you can learn, are more sure when you can write, even more when you can teach, but certain when you can program.

The advance of technology is based on making it fit in so that you don't really even notice it, so it's part of everyday life.

A program without a loop and a structured variable isn't worth writing.

The Star Trek computer doesn't seem that interesting. They ask it random questions, it thinks for a while. I think we can do better than that.

To go forward, you must backup.

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.

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

It would take a lot of time and effort (to repair the computers). And they can't run (programs and games) kids are interested in today. They're not even on the Internet. We wouldn't be offering them much of a carrot.

Overall, OS/2's problems fall into two categories: IBM and Microsoft.