Technology Quotes

Perhaps if we wrote programs from childhood on, as adults we'd be able to read them.

Technology favors horrible people.

We are Microsoft. Resistance Is Futile. You Will Be Assimilated.

Any fool can use a computer. Many do.

Programmers are in a race with the Universe to create bigger and better idiot-proof programs, while the Universe is trying to create bigger and better idiots. So far the Universe is winning.

If you look at the top 20 companies of the world, 19 of them are still brick-and-mortar companies. I have nothing against tech companies. What I am saying is that if you have a car manufacturer or an oil and gas manufacturer, you won’t get the supply over the Net.

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

Unix is simple. It just takes a genius to understand its simplicity.

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

Unix was not designed to stop you from doing stupid things, because that would also stop you from doing clever things.

Systems have sub-systems and sub-systems have sub- systems and so on ad infinitum - which is why we're always starting over.

The future masters of technology will have to be light-hearted and intelligent. The machine easily masters the grim and the dumb.

Windows 95: It's like upgrading from Reagan to Bush.

Science is supposedly the method by which we stand on the shoulders of those who came before us. In computer science, we all are standing on each others' feet.

Computer Science is no more about computers than astronomy is about telescopes.

In programming, as in everything else, to be in error is to be reborn.

What is the difference between a Turing machine and the modern computer? It's the same as that between Hillary's ascent of Everest and the establishment of a Hilton hotel on its peak.

All of the biggest technological inventions created by man - the airplane, the automobile, the computer - says little about his intelligence, but speaks volumes about his laziness.

Computers will never replace good old-fashioned human stupidity.

In the long run every program becomes rococo - then rubble.

With engineering, I view this year's failure as next year's opportunity to try it again. Failures are not something to be avoided. You want to have them happen as quickly as you can so you can make progress rapidly.

Any significant boost in technology could just as easily be a rigged demo.

Everyone has a right to a university degree in America, even if it's in Hamburger Technology.

We are very much believers that the web is an open environment, and we need to make sure that people can find all kinds of different stuff through Yahoo!, and not necessarily keeping people within Yahoo!

A year spent in artificial intelligence is enough to make one believe in God.