Technology Quotes

Programming is an unnatural act.

We hope that the Internet becomes even more affordable and more ubiquitous over time, and our mission at Yahoo! is to continue to keep our services available AND useful on all these platforms.

In C++ it’s harder to shoot yourself in the foot, but when you do, you blow off your whole leg.

Measuring programming progress by lines of code is like measuring aircraft building progress by weight.

We have technology, finally, that for the first time in human history allows people to really maintain rich connections with much larger numbers of people.

The issues involved are sufficiently important that courses are now moving out of the philosophy departments and into mainstream computer science. And they affect everyone. Many of the students attracted to these courses are not technology majors, and many of the topics we discuss relate to ethical challenges that transcend the computer world.

After a day spent staring at a computer monitor, think of (a) book as a kind of screen saver for your brain.

Food for thought: A fully-protected-and-updated Windows box cannot, by definition, have an uptime of more than 30 days.

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.

A language that doesn't affect the way you think about programming, is not worth knowing.

As technology advances, it reverses the characteristics of every situation again and again. The age of automation is going to be the age of "do it yourself".

Come to think of it, there are already a million monkeys on a million typewriters, and Usenet is nothing like Shakespeare.

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.

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

A lot of companies have chosen to downsize, and maybe that was the right thing for them. We chose a different path. Our belief was that if we kept putting great products in front of customers, they would continue to open their wallets.

The attention span of a computer is only as long as its electrical cord.

Technology makes it possible for people to gain control over everything, except over technology.

'Intel Inside': The world's most widely used warning label.

Programming today is a race between software engineers striving to build bigger and better idiot-proof programs, and the Universe trying to produce bigger and better idiots. So far, the Universe is winning.

Ooops. My brain just hit a bad sector.

Pentiums melt in your PC, not in your hand.

It is easier to write an incorrect program than understand a correct one.

Technology is the drug of choice for most Americans. Source unknown Theory: when you have ideas. Ideology: when ideas have you.

Technology does not run an enterprise, relationships do.

Of course, the best way to get accurate information on Usenet is to post something wrong and wait for corrections.