Technology Quotes

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.

The protection of personal information stored on our nation's computer systems is critical to public trust in those networks and to the health of our economy.

Live TV died in the late 1950s, electronic bulletin boards came along in the mid-1980s, meaning there was about a 25-year gap when it was difficult to put your foot in your mouth and have people all across the country know about it.

If GM had kept up with technology like the computer industry has, we would all be driving $25 cars that got 1000 MPG.

Program complexity grows until it exceeds the capabilities of the programmer who must maintain it.

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.

Considering the current sad state of our computer programs, software development is clearly still a black art, and cannot yet be called an engineering discipline.

Syntactic sugar causes cancer of the semicolon.

The digital revolution is far more significant than the invention of writing or even of printing.

Our biggest demographic is the intelligent professional. They've got a computer on their desk, they've got a web browser and they check us out. We are many people's morning cup of coffee.

We have the mini and the micro computer. In what semantic niche would the pico computer fall?

We're changing the world with technology.

Just about anyone can pass if they have a home computer and are a quick study.

For systems, the analogue of a face-lift is to add to the control graph an edge that creates a cycle, not just an additional node.

If the automobile had followed the same development cycle as the computer, a Rolls-Royce would today cost $100, get a million miles per gallon, and explode once a year, killing everyone inside.

The computing field is always in need of new cliches.

What do people mean when they say the computer went down on them?

Technology is a way of organizing the universe so that man doesn't have to experience it.

There is some confusion because we only recently began our marketing. We're in an era were people need to think about business processes and applications horizontally...We need to think of the enterprise not as an island of stand-alone technology.

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.

Technology makes the world a new place.

It's hard for us in our stores to be a leader in technology.

We've heard that a million monkeys at a keyboard could produce the Complete Works of Shakespeare; now, thanks to the Internet, we know this is not true.

Vista is the the George W Bush of the technology industry.

Never let a computer know you're in a hurry.