Technology Quotes

I like my job because it involves learning. I like being around smart people who are trying to figure out new things. I like the fact that if people really try they can figure out how to invent things that actually have an impact.

The technologies which have had the most profound effects on human life are usually simple.

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

When we write programs that "learn", it turns out that we do and they don't.

In 20 or 30 years, you'll be able to hold in your hand as much computing knowledge as exists now in the whole city, or even the whole world.

Computers are getting smarter all the time. Scientists tell us that soon they will be able to talk to us. (And by ‘they’, I mean ‘computers’. I doubt scientists will ever be able to talk to us.)

Technology is like a fish. The longer it stays on the shelf, the less desirable it becomes.

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

The Net interprets censorship as damage and routes around it.

Ooops. My brain just hit a bad sector.

If GM had kept up with technology like the computer industry has, we would all be driving $25 cars that got 1000 MPG.

This is a big deal. It's a fairly natural partnership; it shouldn't surprise people, ... We're working on bringing this network-is-the-computer, Net services environment.

So many good ideas are never heard from again once they embark in a voyage on the semantic gulf.

The first 90% of the code accounts for the first 90% of the development time. The remaining 10% of the code accounts for the other 90% of the development time.

There’s an old story about the person who wished his computer were as easy to use as his telephone. That wish has come true, since I no longer know how to use my telephone.

Why do we want intelligent terminals when there are so many stupid users ?

Giving up on assembly language was the apple in our Garden of Eden: Languages whose use squanders machine cycles are sinful. The LISP machine now permits LISP programmers to abandon bra and fig-leaf.

I get mail, therefore I am.

Efforts to protect critical computer networks have unfortunately not kept pace with the march of technology.

Technology has the shelf life of a banana.

Some say Google is God. Others say Google is Satan. But if they think Google is too powerful, remember that with search engines unlike other companies, all it takes is a single click to go to another search engine.

We kid ourselves if we think that the ratio of procedure to data in an active data-base system can be made arbitrarily small or even kept small.

Too few people in computer science are aware of some of the informational challenges in biology and their implications for the world. We can store an incredible amount of data very cheaply.

Web users ultimately want to get at data quickly and easily. They don't care as much about attractive sites and pretty design.

You think you know when you can learn, are more sure when you can write, even more when you can teach, but certain when you can program.