Technology Quotes

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

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.

Simplicity does not precede complexity, but follows it.

The most amazing achievement of the computer software industry is its continuing cancellation of the steady and staggering gains made by the computer hardware industry.

Pentiums melt in your PC, not in your hand.

I like my job because it involves learning. I like being around smart people who are trying to figure out new things. I like the fact that if people really try they can figure out how to invent things that actually have an impact.

How could this be a problem in a country where we have Intel and Microsoft?

The perfect computer has been developed. You just feed in your problems and they never come out again.

The eleventh commandment was "Thou Shalt Compute" or "Thou Shalt Not Compute" - I forget which.

This is not a phone business. This is the smallest video camera, it's the smallest computer, smallest TV.

It's not that we use technology, we live technology.

My software never has bugs. It just develops random features.

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

Programming is like sex: one mistake and you’re providing support for a lifetime.

Daddy, what does FORMATTING DRIVE C mean?

No matter how slick the demo is in rehearsal, when you do it in front of a live audience, the probability of a flawless presentation is inversely proportional to the number of people watching, raised to the power of the amount of money involved.

We are on the verge: Today our program proved Fermat's next-to-last theorem.

Documentation is like term insurance: It satisfies because almost no one who subscribes to it depends on its benefits.

Two men were examining the output of the new computer in their department. After an hour or so of analyzing the data, one of them remarked: "Do you realize it would take 400 men at least 250 years to make a mistake this big ?

I hope that the internet will get to become ubiquitous and affordable, and if that's achieved, I think it'll be a big part of people's lives - for the better.

It is a tremendous responsibility for us to have all the eyes focused on what we do and give people exactly what they need when they ask for it.

If I have seen further it is by standing on the shoulders of giants.

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.

The danger from computers is not that they will eventually get as smart as men, but that we will meanwhile agree to meet them halfway.

Where there is the necessary technical skill to move mountains, there is no need for the faith that moves mountains.