Technology Quotes

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

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

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

Technology makes it possible for people to gain control over everything, except over technology.

They should never have entered him in that computer. It's just common sense? that's the bottom line. I don't think it should have gotten this far.

A computer lets you make more mistakes faster than any invention in human history - with the possible exceptions of handguns and tequila.

In headlines today, the dreaded killfile virus spread across the country adding 'aol.com' to people's Usenet kill files everywhere. The programmer of the virus still remains anonymous, but has been nominated several times for a Nobel peace prize.

A distributed system is one in which the failure of a computer you didn't even know existed can render your own computer unusable.

I have to say I was a bit shocked to see myself on the cover (TIME magazine). It's really not my style since Yahoo! is something built by a lot more people than just me..

The most important computer is the one that rages in our skulls and ever seeks that satisfactory external emulator. The standarization of real computers would be a disaster - and so it probably won't happen.

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

Optimization hinders evolution.

There are two ways to write error-free programs; only the third one works.

In June 1994, while it is still our hobby, we renamed it "yahoo" to stand for "yet another hierarchical officious oracle".

Steve Jobs may have the apple, but Bill Gates has the entire orchard !

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

If you automate a mess, you get an automated mess.

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.

Be nice to nerds. Chances are you'll end up working for one.

Moore's Law - The number of transistors and resistors on a chip doubles every 24 months

Come to think of it, there are already a million monkeys on a million typewriters, and Usenet is nothing like Shakespeare.

If you don't want to be replaced by a computer, don't act like one.

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

It is the user who should parameterize procedures, not their creators.

I get mail, therefore I am.