Technology Quotes

It's a fact that more people watch television and get their information that way than read books. I find new technology and new ways of communication very exciting and would like to do more in this field.

The future masters of technology will have to be light-hearted and intelligent. The machine easily masters the grim and the dumb.

Men are from Mars. Women are from Venus. Computers are from hell.

All of the books in the world contain no more information than is broadcast as video in a single large American city in a single year. Not all bits have equal value.

Programming is like sex: one mistake and you’re providing support for a lifetime.

There will always be things we wish to say in our programs that in all known languages can only be said poorly.

The sooner you start coding a program, the longer it will take.

I do not fear computers. I fear the lack of them.

I have to say I was a bit shocked to see myself on the cover (TIME magazine). It's really not my style since Yahoo! is something built by a lot more people than just me..

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

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

Why is it drug addicts and computer afficionados are both called users?

If two people write exactly the same program, each should be put into microcode and then they certainly won't be the same.

There are managers so preoccupied with their e-mail messages that they never look up from their screens to see what's happening in the nondigital world.

It is dangerously destabilizing to have half the world on the cutting edge of technology while the other half struggles on the bare edge of survival.

Pixar is the most technically advanced creative company; Apple is the most creatively advanced technical company.

The cybernetic exchange between man, computer and algorithm is like a game of musical chairs: The frantic search for balance always leaves one of the three standing ill at ease.

If the human race wants to go to hell in a basket, technology can help it get there by jet.

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

When we understand knowledge-based systems, it will be as before -- except our fingertips will have been singed.

People say Microsoft paid $14M for using the Rolling Stones song 'Start me up' in their commercials. This is wrong. Microsoft payed $14M only for a part of the song. For instance, they didn't use the line 'You'll make a grown man cry'.

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

Complexity kills. It sucks the life out of developers, it makes products difficult to plan, build and test, it introduces security challenges, and it causes end-user and administrator frustration.

Style used to be an interaction between the human soul and tools that were limiting. In the digital era, it will have to come from the soul alone.

A computer is like an Old Testament god, with a lot of rules and no mercy.