Technology Quotes

The interesting thing is when we design and architect a server, we don't design it for Windows or Linux, we design it for both. We don't really care, as long as we're selling the one the customer wants.

I get Canadian porno - that's the extent of satellite service and Internet in my house.

In a 5 year period we get one superb programming language. Only we can't control when the 5 year period will be.

We don’t have a traditional strategy process, planning process like you’d find in traditional technical companies. It allows Google to innovate very, very quickly, which I think is a real strength of the company.

I think it's fair to say that personal computers have become the most empowering tool we've ever created. They're tools of communication, they're tools of creativity, and they can be shaped by their user.

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.

Complexity kills. It sucks the life out of developers, it makes products difficult to plan, build and test, it introduces security challenges, and it causes end-user and administrator frustration.

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

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

Some say Google is God. Others say Google is Satan. But if they think Google is too powerful, remember that with search engines unlike other companies, all it takes is a single click to go to another search engine.

The Internet? Is that thing still around?

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.

Hardware: where the people in your company's software section will tell you the problem is. Software: where the people in your company's hardware section will tell you the problem is.

If it keeps up, man will atrophy all his limbs but the push-button finger.

What the country needs are a few labor-making inventions.

There is only one satisfying way to boot a computer.

Windows isn't a virus, viruses do something.

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

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

Technology does not drive change -- it enables change.

I like my job because it involves learning. I like being around smart people who are trying to figure out new things. I like the fact that if people really try they can figure out how to invent things that actually have an impact.

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

Measuring programming progress by lines of code is like measuring aircraft building progress by weight.

Microsoft is not the answer. Microsoft is the question. NO is the answer.

Think of all the psychic energy expended in seeking a fundamental distinction between "algorithm" and "program".