Technology Quotes

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.

Software companies should take more responsibility for security holes, especially in browsers and e-mail clients. There are some straightforward things the industry should be doing right now to fix things, and I don't know why they haven't been done yet.

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.

I think computer viruses should count as life. I think it says something about human nature that the only form of life we have created so far is purely destructive. We've created life in our own image.

A complex system that works is invariably found to have evolved from a simple system that worked.

Science is not marginal. Like art, it is a universal possession of humanity, and scientific knowledge has become a vital part of our species' repertory. It comprises what we know of the material world with reasonable certainty. . . . Thanks to science and technology, access to factual information of all kinds is rising exponentially.

Our mission is to organize the world's information. Clearly, the more information we have when we do a search, the better it's going to work.

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

The term reboot comes from the middle age (before computers). Horses who stopped in mid-stride required a boot to the rear to start again. Thus the term to rear-boot, later abbreviated into reboot.

There are two ways to write error-free programs; only the third one works.

No matter how slick the demo is in rehearsal, when you do it in front of a live audience, the probability of a flawless presentation is inversely proportional to the number of people watching, raised to the power of the amount of money involved.

Americans have the right to have their medical decisions made by them and their doctors, and not by those bureaucrats sitting behind a computer screen hundreds of miles away.

Think of it! With VLSI we can pack 100 ENIACS in 1 sq. cm.

High technology has done us one great service: It has retaught us the delight of performing simple and primordial tasks - chopping wood, building a fire, drawing water from a spring.

If a program is useful, it will have to be changed.

That can be a good tax planning tool for small businesses - especially if you get a computer or something that you were planning to buy (in the coming year anyway).

First and foremost, the Internet is unique since it is THE only interactive medium -- and that's important because from a content, service, and communications perspective, we web folks try to take advantage of that interactivity.

I believe that Silicon Valley is truly a place of excellence and the impact of this tiny community on the world is completely disproportionate to its size. We are the undisputed leaders of technological change. But with our abundance of talent and resources, we also have the opportunity to be the pioneers of social change and, ultimately, this may be our greatest contribution.

The great thing about Object Oriented code is that it can make small, simple problems look like large, complex ones.

Systems have sub-systems and sub-systems have sub- systems and so on ad infinitum - which is why we're always starting over.

For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for Nature cannot be fooled.

It is the user who should parameterize procedures, not their creators.

C++ : Where friends have access to your private members.

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

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