Technology Quotes

Part of our brand is that we're pretty understated in what we do. If you look at other technology companies, they might preannounce things, and it will be a couple years before they really happen, and they don't happen in the way they said they would.

Advances in computer technology and the Internet have changed the way America works, learns, and communicates. The Internet has become an integral part of America's economic, political, and social life.

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

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

My understanding is their objective is to increase their capacity for the Internet, search engines. All I know is there's a lot of computers.

Think

Everything should be built top-down, except the first time.

Artificial Intelligence: the art of making computers that behave like the ones in movies.

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.

Steve Jobs may have the apple, but Bill Gates has the entire orchard !

Renewable energy is proven technology, the price is dropping, the rest of the world is going that way, that's where our investment should be going as well.

The computing field is always in need of new cliches.

All programmers are playwrights and all computers are lousy actors.

The debate rages on: is PL/I Bachtrian or Dromedary?

Every program is a part of some other program and rarely fits.

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.

You can try to control people, or you can try to have a system that represents reality. I find that knowing what's really happening is more important than trying to control people.

If McDonalds were run like a software company, one out of every hundred Big Macs would give you food poisoning, and the response would be, ‘We’re sorry, here’s a coupon for two more.

Difference between a virus and windows ? Viruses rarely fail.

It is only when they go wrong that machines remind you how powerful they are.

There's a lot of Google fascination out there and we share it, and we're going to compete, we're going to compete very, very hard.

eBay's business is based on enabling someone to do business with another person, and to do that, they first have to develop some measure of trust, either in the other person or the system.

I get mail, therefore I am.

Prolonged contact with the computer turns mathematicians into clerks and vice versa.

AOL is like the cockroach left after the nuclear bomb hits. They know how to survive.