Technology Quotes

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

The protection of personal information stored on our nation's computer systems is critical to public trust in those networks and to the health of our economy.

The most important computer is the one that rages in our skulls and ever seeks that satisfactory external emulator. The standarization of real computers would be a disaster - and so it probably won't happen.

We hope that the Internet becomes even more affordable and more ubiquitous over time, and our mission at Yahoo! is to continue to keep our services available AND useful on all these platforms.

In computing, turning the obvious into the useful is a living definition of the word "frustration".

Computers are useless. They can only give you answers.

A program without a loop and a structured variable isn't worth writing.

We started putting together a "hotlist" of favorite sites from David and myself, and we called it "Jerry's Guide to the World Wide Web" Before we knew it, people from all over the world were using this database that we created.

The inside of a computer is as dumb as hell but it goes like mad!

The production of too many useful things results in too many useless people.

A hacker on a roll may be able to produce–in a period of a few months–something that a small development group (say, 7-8 people) would have a hard time getting together over a year. IBM used to report that certain programmers might be as much as 100 times as productive as other workers, or more.

We're only at the beginning of what we have to do here.

If you can't make it good, at least make it look good.

Computers in the future may have only 1,000 vacuum tubes and perhapsonly weigh 1 1/2 tons.

Syntactic sugar causes cancer of the semicolon.

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.

It has become appallingly obvious that our technology has exceeded our humanity.

For systems, the analogue of a face-lift is to add to the control graph an edge that creates a cycle, not just an additional node.

The best way to prepare [to be a programmer] is to write programs, and to study great programs that other people have written. In my case, I went to the garbage cans at the Computer Science Center and fished out listings of their operating system.

Technology is always evolving, and companies.. not just search companies.. can't be afraid to take advantage of change.

Wherever there is modularity there is the potential for misunderstanding: Hiding information implies a need to check communication.

To turn really interesting ideas and fledgling technologies into a company that can continue to innovate for years, it requires a lot of disciplines.

Build a program that even a fool can use, and only a fool will want to use it.

Not everything that can be counted counts, and not everything that counts can be counted.

Overall, OS/2's problems fall into two categories: IBM and Microsoft.