Technology Quotes

There are only two industries that refer to their customers as ‘users’.

Technology has the shelf life of a banana.

Computers are magnificent tools for the realization of our dreams, but no machine can replace the human spark of spirit, compassion, love, and understanding.

If you give someone a program, you will frustrate them for a day; if you teach them how to program, you will frustrate them for a lifetime.

The lifeblood of our business is that R&D spend. There's nothing that flows through a pipe or down a wire or anything else. We have to continuously create new innovation that lets people do something they didn't think they could do the day before.

We've heard that a million monkeys at a keyboard could produce the Complete Works of Shakespeare; now, thanks to the Internet, we know this is not true.

Ever notice how fast Windows runs ? — Neither did I.

If the automobile had followed the same development cycle as the computer, a Rolls-Royce would today cost $100, get a million miles per gallon, and explode once a year, killing everyone inside.

What the country needs are a few labor-making inventions.

The best programmers are not marginally better than merely good ones. They are an order-of-magnitude better, measured by whatever standard: conceptual creativity, speed, ingenuity of design, or problem-solving ability.

Microsoft is now talking about the digital nervous system... I guess I would be nervous if my system was built on their technology too.

Software is under a constant tension. Being symbolic it is arbitrarily perfectible; but also it is arbitrarily changeable.

Good programmers use their brains, but good guidelines save us having to think out every case.

We're seeing how the videos translate to the live shows and how the technology is really reaching kids.

Fifty years of programming language research, and we end up with C++?

To err is human--and to blame it on a computer is even more so.

First we thought the PC was a calculator. Then we found out how to turn numbers into letters with ASCII — and we thought it was a typewriter. Then we discovered graphics, and we thought it was a television. With the World Wide Web, we've realized it's a brochure.

We will never become a truly paper-less society until the Palm Pilot folks come out with WipeMe 1.0.

They say if you play a Microsoft CD backwards, you hear satanic messages. Thats nothing, cause if you play it forwards, it installs Windows.

One machine can do the work of fifty ordinary men. No machine can do the work of one extraordinary man.

You can measure a programmer's perspective by noting his attitude on the continuing vitality of FORTRAN.

The most important and urgent problems of the technology of today are no longer the satisfactions of primary needs or of archetypal wishes, but the reparation of the evils and damages by technology of yesterday.

Humanity is acquiring all the right technology for all the wrong reasons.

They're growing at three to four times the personal computer market.

The best museums and museum exhibits about science or technology give you the feeling that, hey, this is interesting, but maybe I could do something here, too.