Technology Quotes

The system of nature, of which man is a part, tends to be self-balancing, self-adjusting, self-cleansing. Not so with technology.

We really care about our brand. We really want it to stand for high quality. We want people to be excited about it, for it to be fun.

Computers have lots of memory but no imagination.

Programming is an unnatural act.

The interesting thing is when we design and architect a server, we don't design it for Windows or Linux, we design it for both. We don't really care, as long as we're selling the one the customer wants.

In a 5 year period we get one superb programming language. Only we can't control when the 5 year period will be.

What do people mean when they say the computer went down on them?

Hardware: where the people in your company's software section will tell you the problem is. Software: where the people in your company's hardware section will tell you the problem is.

As we go forward, I hope we're going to continue to use technology to make really big differences in how people live and work.

A carelessly planned project takes three times longer to complete than expected; a carefully planned project takes only twice as long.

The newest computer can merely compound, at speed, the oldest problem in the relations between human beings, and in the end the communicator will be confronted with the old problem, of what to say and how to say it.

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

The difference between e-mail and regular mail is that computers handle e-mail, and computers never decide to come to work one day and shoot all the other computers.

If your computer speaks English, it was probably made in Japan.

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 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.

I just bought a Mac to help me design the next Cray.

If computers had invented humans as part of a BI program (biological intelligence), humans would have been tossed aside as barely having achieved perfect game play at Tic-Tac-Toe.

Bill Gates is the pope of the personal computer industry. He decides who's going to build.

If google made $1 everytime someone used them to find an answer to a tech support question, they would own microsoft.

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.

If you have a procedure with ten parameters, you probably missed some.

Re graphics: A picture is worth 10K words - but only those to describe the picture. Hardly any sets of 10K words can be adequately described with pictures.

It’s ridiculous to live 100 years and only be able to remember 30 million bytes. You know, less than a compact disc. The human condition is really becoming more obsolete every minute.

Optimism is an occupational hazard of programming; feedback is the treatment.