Technology Quotes

Be nice to geeks when you're in school, you might end-up working for one when you grow-up.

How could this be a problem in a country where we have Intel and Microsoft?

Getting Information off the Internet is like taking a drink from a fire hydrant.

If you don't double-click me, I can't do anything.

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

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.

Syntactic sugar causes cancer of the semicolon.

In software, we rarely have meaningful requirements. Even if we do, the only measure of success that matters is whether our solution solves the customer’s shifting idea of what their problem is.

The Internet is so big, so powerful and pointless that for some people it is a complete substitute for life.

Apple really hasn't weighed in on the sub-$1,000 computer category. Their next step could be refreshing their current products and making pricing changes.

Beware of computer programmers that carry screwdrivers.

The lifeblood of our business is that R&D spend. There's nothing that flows through a pipe or down a wire or anything else. We have to continuously create new innovation that lets people do something they didn't think they could do the day before.

There's a lot that can be done for people who are using technology in a better way.

Technology does not run an enterprise, relationships do.

A printer consists of three main parts: the case, the jammed paper tray and the blinking red light.

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.

Hey ! It compiles ! Ship it !

Every program has (at least) two purposes: the one for which it was written, and another for which it wasn't.

The Internet is becoming the town square for the global village of tomorrow.

The computer programmer is a creator of universes for which he alone is responsible. Universes of virtually unlimited complexity can be created in the form of computer programs.

I completely love playing and designing games and always will. I am so into games that I listen to game music all day. That may sound strange, but you can guarantee I'm a hardcore gamer and would never let you down by designing a crappy title.

In headlines today, the dreaded killfile virus spread across the country adding 'aol.com' to people's Usenet kill files everywhere. The programmer of the virus still remains anonymous, but has been nominated several times for a Nobel peace prize.

The first rule of any technology used in a business is that automation applied to an efficient operation will magnify the efficiency. The second is that automation applied to an inefficient operation will magnify the inefficiency.

I think one of the big errors people are making right now is thinking that old-style businesses will be obsolete, when actually they will be an important part of this new civilization. Some retail groups are introducing e-commerce and think that the "bricks" are no longer useful. But they will continue to be important.

Within a computer natural language is unnatural.