Technology Quotes

I had a fortune cookie the other day and it said: 'Outlook not so good'. I said: 'Sure, but Microsoft ships it anyway'.

Worth noting: running 'reboot -h' does NOT produce a helpful usage message.

I get mail, therefore I am.

For a list of all the ways technology has failed to improve the quality of life, please press three.

Technology without hatred can be a blessing. Technology with hatred is always a disaster.

I hope that the internet will get to become ubiquitous and affordable, and if that's achieved, I think it'll be a big part of people's lives - for the better.

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

If you have any trouble sounding condescending, find a Unix user to show you how it's done.

To turn really interesting ideas and fledgling technologies into a company that can continue to innovate for years, it requires a lot of disciplines.

Computing is not about computers any more. It is about living.

The most important and urgent problems of the technology of today are no longer the satisfactions of primary needs or of archetypal wishes, but the reparation of the evils and damages by technology of yesterday.

Interfaces keep things tidy, but don't accelerate growth: Functions do.

The best museums and museum exhibits about science or technology give you the feeling that, hey, this is interesting, but maybe I could do something here, too.

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

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

Paper returns done by hand have an 80 percent accuracy rate, or 20 percent error rate. E-file has more than a 99 percent accuracy rate, because the computer does all the work for you.

Computers, huh? I've heard it all boils down to just a bunch of ones and zeroes.... I don't know how that enables me to see naked women, but however it works, God bless you guys.

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.

One good reason why computers can do more work than people is that they never have to stop and answer the phone.

From the time I was 7, when I purchased my first calculator, I was fascinated by the idea of a machine that could compute things.

The only constructive theory connecting neuroscience and psychology will arise from the study of software.

If a program manipulates a large amount of data, it does so in a small number of ways.

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

Unix is user-friendly. It's just very selective about who its friends are.

Look at growth, look at how much time people spend on the Net and look at the variety of things that they are doing. It's all really good, so I am actually encouraged by the fundamentals that underlie usage growth on the Net.