Technology Quotes

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

If computers get too powerful, we can organize them into a committee. That will do them in.

Everything should be built top-down, except the first time.

Considering the flames and intolerance, shouldn't USENET be spelled ABUSENET?

There’s an old story about the person who wished his computer were as easy to use as his telephone. That wish has come true, since I no longer know how to use my telephone.

A program is a spell cast over a computer, turning input into error messages.

The Linux philosophy is "Laugh in the face of danger". Oops. Wrong One. "Do it yourself". Yes, that's it.

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.

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

Our mission is to organize the world's information. Clearly, the more information we have when we do a search, the better it's going to work.

God never made his work for man to mend.

Beware of the Turing tar-pit in which everything is possible but nothing of interest is easy.

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!

The best book on programming for the layman is "Alice in Wonderland"; but that's because it's the best book on anything for the layman.

High technology has done us one great service: It has retaught us the delight of performing simple and primordial tasks - chopping wood, building a fire, drawing water from a spring.

There is only one satisfying way to boot a computer.

There is a chasm of carbon and silicon the software can't bridge.

The computer is the ultimate polluter: its feces are indistinguish- able from the food it produces.

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

Any fool can use a computer. Many do.

This is a highly reliable power source. Being a large credit card processor, doing $6 million an hour in transactions, our computers have to work.

640K ought to be enough for anybody.

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

In 20 or 30 years, you'll be able to hold in your hand as much computing knowledge as exists now in the whole city, or even the whole world.

It is the framework which changes with each new technology and not just the picture within the frame.