Technology Quotes

The only constructive theory connecting neuroscience and psychology will arise from the study of software.

Think of it! With VLSI we can pack 100 ENIACS in 1 sq. cm.

Technology without hatred can be a blessing. Technology with hatred is always a disaster.

Every program has (at least) two purposes: the one for which it was written, and another for which it wasn't.

Programmers are tools for converting caffeine into code.

I believe that this notion of self-publishing, which is what Blogger and blogging are really about, is the next big wave of human communication. The last big wave was Web activity. Before that one it was e-mail. Instant messaging was an extension of e-mail, real-time e-mail.

Yesterday it worked Today it is not working Windows is like that

You can either have software quality or you can have pointer arithmetic, but you cannot have both at the same time.

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.

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.

Three things are certain: Death, taxes, and lost data. Guess which has occurred.

Don't have good ideas if you aren't willing to be responsible for them.

The ultimate search engine would basically understand everything in the world, and it would always give you the right thing. And we're a long, long ways from that.

And bring me a hard copy of the Internet so I can do some serious surfing.

MS-DOS isn't dead, it just smells that way.

Users truly don’t know what they want in a program until they use it.

Fools ignore complexity. Pragmatists suffer it. Some can avoid it. Geniuses remove it.

Saying that most of the computer was filled with personal images is simply not accurate.

If at first you don't succeed; call it version 1.0.

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.

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

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

The digital revolution is far more significant than the invention of writing or even of printing.

One of the main causes of the fall of the Roman Empire was that–lacking zero–they had no way to indicate successful termination of their C programs.

One can only display complex information in the mind. Like seeing, movement or flow or alteration of view is more important than the static picture, no matter how lovely.