Technology Quotes

Any given program, once deployed, is already obsolete.

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There is so much media now with the Internet and people, and so easy and so cheap to start a newspaper or start a magazine, there’s just millions of voices and people want to be heard.

The demand for digital textbooks has increased since its introduction to the marketplace. As students become more familiar with them and computers get faster, larger and more portable, this product will gain in popularity.

Technology is so much fun but we can drown in our technology. The fog of information can drive out knowledge.

There is a chasm of carbon and silicon the software can't bridge.

A friend called me up the other day and talked about investing in a dot-com that sells lobsters. Internet lobsters. Where will this end? The next day he sent me a huge package of lobsters on ice. How low can you stoop?

I think if you do something and it turns out pretty good, then you should go do something else wonderful, not dwell on it for too long. Just figure out what’s next.

To understand a program you must become both the machine and the program.

Everybody who runs a Web site knows we're not assured of compatibility.

Grove giveth and Gates taketh away.

Not even computers will replace committees, because committees buy computers.

The Internet is not just one thing, it's a collection of things - of numerous communications networks that all speak the same digital language.

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

One day soon the Gillette company will announce the development of a razor that, thanks to a computer microchip, can actually travel ahead in time and shave beard hairs that don't even exist yet.

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

Early on, when software was developed by computer scientists, just people working with computers, people passed around software because that was how you got computers to do things.

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.

Technology is a gift of God. After the gift of life it is perhaps the greatest of God's gifts. It is the mother of civilizations, of arts and of sciences.

There's no set architecture in Linux. All roads lead to madness.

Unix is simple. It just takes a genius to understand its simplicity.

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

It’s really hard to design products by focus groups. A lot of times, people don’t know what they want until you show it to them.

It would appear that we have reached the limits of what it is possible to achieve with computer technology, although one should be careful with such statements, as they tend to sound pretty silly in 5 years.

In English every word can be verbed. Would that it were so in our programming languages.