Technology Quotes

A programmer is a person who passes as an exacting expert on the basis of being able to turn out, after innumerable punching, an infinite series of incomprehensive answers calculated with micrometric precisions from vague assumptions based on debatable figures taken from inconclusive documents and carried out on instruments of problematical accuracy by persons of dubious reliability and questionable mentality for the avowed purpose of annoying and confounding a hopelessly defenseless department that was unfortunate enough to ask for the information in the first place.

Our business is about technology, yes. But it's also about operations and customer relationships.

People keep asking me what I think of it now that it's done. Hence my protest: The Web is not done!

We really care about our brand. We really want it to stand for high quality. We want people to be excited about it, for it to be fun.

True innovation often comes from the small startup who is lean enough to launch a market but lacks the heft to own it.

Apparently, Windows 98 is going to be renamed 'Diana, Princess of Windows'. It's overrated, overpriced, consumes loads of resources and crashes spectacularly...

Programmers are in a race with the Universe to create bigger and better idiot-proof programs, while the Universe is trying to create bigger and better idiots. So far the Universe is winning.

We’re gambling on our vision, and we would rather do that than make “me too” products. Let some other companies do that. For us, it’s always the next dream.

The best thing about a boolean is even if you are wrong, you are only off by a bit.

Because of its vitality, the computing field is always in desperate need of new cliches: Banality soothes our nerves.

A thunderstorm is God's way of saying you spend too much time in front of the computer.

It's hard for us in our stores to be a leader in technology.

One man's constant is another man's variable.

Microsoft: "You've got questions. We've got dancing paperclips."

There are two ways of constructing a software design. One way is to make it so simple that there are obviously no deficiencies. And the other way is to make it so complicated that there are no obvious deficiencies.

Too few people in computer science are aware of some of the informational challenges in biology and their implications for the world. We can store an incredible amount of data very cheaply.

One of the main causes of the fall of the Roman Empire was that–lacking zero–they had no way to indicate successful termination of their C programs.

This is a big deal. It's a fairly natural partnership; it shouldn't surprise people, ... We're working on bringing this network-is-the-computer, Net services environment.

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.

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.

If debugging is the process of removing bugs, then programming must be the process of putting them in.

Science is supposedly the method by which we stand on the shoulders of those who came before us. In computer science, we all are standing on each others' feet.

Artificial Intelligence: the art of making computers that behave like the ones in movies.

Windows isn't a virus, viruses do something.

One would think that if you're anonymous, you'd do anything you want, but groups have their own sense of community and what we can do.