Technology Quotes

True innovation often comes from the small startup who is lean enough to launch a market but lacks the heft to own it.

Daddy, what does FORMATTING DRIVE C mean?

That can be a good tax planning tool for small businesses - especially if you get a computer or something that you were planning to buy (in the coming year anyway).

I can't uninstall it, there seems to be some kind of 'Uninstall Shield'.

Complexity kills. It sucks the life out of developers, it makes products difficult to plan, build and test, it introduces security challenges, and it causes end-user and administrator frustration.

The more I C, the less I see.

Never trust a computer you can’t throw out a window.

Hardware: where the people in your company's software section will tell you the problem is. Software: where the people in your company's hardware section will tell you the problem is.

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

We're changing the world with technology.

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.

I think that it's always possible to have a great company if you have great ideas. I will say that since the web has become more commercialized, it also takes some good financial resources to build a great business, but as I always say, you have to have the idea first.

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

Within a computer natural language is unnatural.

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.

I used to think that cyberspace was fifty years away. What I thought was fifty years away, was only ten years away. And what I thought was ten years away... it was already here. I just wasn't aware of it yet.

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.

Microsoft has had its success by doing low-cost products and constantly improving those products and we've really redefined the IT industry to be something that's about a tool for individuals.

The medium, or process, of our time - electric technology is reshaping and restructuring patterns of social interdependence and every aspect of our personal life. It is forcing us to reconsider and re-evaluate practically every thought, every action.

Don't have good ideas if you aren't willing to be responsible for them.

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

Style used to be an interaction between the human soul and tools that were limiting. In the digital era, it will have to come from the soul alone.

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

Any given program, once deployed, is already obsolete.

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