Technology Quotes

It’s really hard to design products by focus groups. A lot of times, people don’t know what they want until you show it to them.

Life is about family and technology.

Computers are like air conditioners: they stop working when you open windows.

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

I have an almost religious zeal.. not for technology per se, but for the Internet which is for me, the nervous system of mother Earth, which I see as a living creature, linking up.

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

Users /nm./: collective term for those who use computers. Users are divided into three types: novice, intermediate and expert. Novice Users: people who are afraid that simply pressing a key might break their computer. Intermediate Users: people who don't know how to fix their computer after they've just pressed a key that broke it. Expert Users: people who break other people's computers.

Not until a program has been in production for at least six months will its most harmful error be discovered.

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.

Technology is the drug of choice for most Americans. Source unknown Theory: when you have ideas. Ideology: when ideas have you.

I find sitting at a specially equipped desk in front of some pretty ugly plastics and staring at a little window is a very unnatural event.

I completely love playing and designing games and always will. I am so into games that I listen to game music all day. That may sound strange, but you can guarantee I'm a hardcore gamer and would never let you down by designing a crappy title.

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

Inside every small program is a large program struggling to get out.

You think you know when you can learn, are more sure when you can write, even more when you can teach, but certain when you can program.

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

Programmers are tools for converting caffeine into code.

Any fool can use a computer. Many do.

Why do we want intelligent terminals when there are so many stupid users ?

A Windows user spends 1/3 of his life sleeping, 1/3 working, 1/3 waiting.

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

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

I remember turning in my first assignment in elementary school using the computer and the teachers were kind of confused that I had printed it.

Computer : a million morons working at the speed of light.

Encryption...is a powerful defensive weapon for free people. It offers a technical guarantee of privacy, regardless of who is running the government... It's hard to think of a more powerful, less dangerous tool for liberty.