Technology Quotes

We don’t have a traditional strategy process, planning process like you’d find in traditional technical companies. It allows Google to innovate very, very quickly, which I think is a real strength of the company.

All of the books in the world contain no more information than is broadcast as video in a single large American city in a single year. Not all bits have equal value.

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.

Technology is not an image of the world but a way of operating on reality. The nihilism of technology lies not only in the fact that it is the most perfect expression of the will to power... but also in the fact that it lacks meaning.

Any fool can use a computer. Many do.

Looking at the proliferation of personal web pages on the net, it looks like very soon everyone on earth will have 15 Megabytes of fame.

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.

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

There are only two kinds of programming languages: those people always bitch about and those nobody uses.

A printer consists of three main parts: the case, the jammed paper tray and the blinking red light.

The goal of computation is the emulation of our synthetic abilities, not the understanding of our analytic ones.

Adding programmers to a late project makes it later.

Vista is the the George W Bush of the technology industry.

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

Get into a rut early: Do the same process the same way. Accumulate idioms. Standardize. The only difference(!) between Shakespeare and you was the size of his idiom list - not the size of his vocabulary.

We're changing the world with technology.

Windows NT addresses 2 Gigabytes of RAM, which is more than any application will ever need.

If Unix is the face of the future I want to go back to quill pens.

Food for thought: A fully-protected-and-updated Windows box cannot, by definition, have an uptime of more than 30 days.

NO, You cannot dial 911, I'm downloading my mail !!!

The Internet is so big, so powerful and pointless that for some people it is a complete substitute for life.

Style used to be an interaction between the human soul and tools that were limiting. In the digital era, it will have to come from the soul alone.

That can be a good tax planning tool for small businesses - especially if you get a computer or something that you were planning to buy (in the coming year anyway).

First learn computer science and all the theory. Next develop a programming style. Then forget all that and just hack.

Five years ago, we thought of the Web as a new medium, not a new economy.