Technology Quotes

Hacking is like sex. You get in, you get out, and hope that you didn't leave something that can be traced back to you.

Apparently, Windows 98 is going to be renamed 'Diana, Princess of Windows'. It's overrated, overpriced, consumes loads of resources and crashes spectacularly...

We always overestimate the change that will occur in the next two years and underestimate the change that will occur in the next ten. Don't let yourself be lulled into inaction.

If I had taken a proprietary control of the Web, then it would never have taken off. People only committed their time to it because they knew it was open, shared: that they could help decide what would happen to it next.. and I wouldn't be raking off 10%!

How could this be a problem in a country where we have Intel and Microsoft?

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.

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

All of the biggest technological inventions created by man - the airplane, the automobile, the computer - says little about his intelligence, but speaks volumes about his laziness.

C++ : Where friends have access to your private members.

Silos can't interoperate unless the technology does.

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.

Is it possible that software is not like anything else, that it is meant to be discarded: that the whole point is to see it as a soap bubble?

Bill Gates is a very rich man today... and do you want to know why? The answer is one word: versions.

Do you realize if it weren't for Edison we'd be watching TV by candlelight?

There is only one satisfying way to boot a computer.

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

Technology presumes there's just one right way to do things and there never is.

Treat your password like your toothbrush. Don't let anybody else use it, and get a new one every six months.

Capitalist production, therefore, develops technology, and the combining together of various processes into a social whole, only by sapping the original sources of all wealth - the soil and the labourer.

The mass majority of computer users are conservative. They want to use the software they're used to using.

Debugging is twice as hard as writing the code in the first place. Therefore, if you write the code as cleverly as possible, you are–by definition–not smart enough to debug it.

The term reboot comes from the middle age (before computers). Horses who stopped in mid-stride required a boot to the rear to start again. Thus the term to rear-boot, later abbreviated into reboot.

Our mission is to organize the world's information. Clearly, the more information we have when we do a search, the better it's going to work.

Structured Programming supports the law of the excluded muddle.

It would take a lot of time and effort (to repair the computers). And they can't run (programs and games) kids are interested in today. They're not even on the Internet. We wouldn't be offering them much of a carrot.