Technology Quotes

If I had taken a proprietary control of the Web, then it would never have taken off. People only committed their time to it because they knew it was open, shared: that they could help decide what would happen to it next.. and I wouldn't be raking off 10%!

Computers are getting smarter all the time. Scientists tell us that soon they will be able to talk to us. (And by ‘they’, I mean ‘computers’. I doubt scientists will ever be able to talk to us.)

A program is never less than 90% complete, and never more than 95% complete.

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

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

There are three kinds of death in this world. There's heart death, there's brain death, and there's being off the network.

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.

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.

We don’t have a traditional strategy process, planning process like you’d find in traditional technical companies. It allows Google to innovate very, very quickly, which I think is a real strength of the company.

I’ve noticed lately that the paranoid fear of computers becoming intelligent and taking over the world has almost entirely disappeared from the common culture. Near as I can tell, this coincides with the release of MS-DOS.

I would love to change the world, but they won't give me the source code.

From then on, when anything went wrong with a computer, we said it had bugs in it.

Technology... is a queer thing. It brings you great gifts with one hand, and it stabs you in the back with the other.

Microsoft: "You've got questions. We've got dancing paperclips."

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

If google made $1 everytime someone used them to find an answer to a tech support question, they would own microsoft.

The number one benefit of information technology is that it empowers people to do what they want to do. It lets people be creative. It lets people be productive. It lets people learn things they didn't think they could learn before, and so in a sense it is all about potential.

Competition is always a fantastic thing, and the computer industry is intensely competitive. Whether it's Google or Apple or free software, we've got some fantastic competitors and it keeps us on our toes.

It is easier to write an incorrect program than understand a correct one.

But they are useless. They can only give you answers.

I had a fortune cookie the other day and it said: 'Outlook not so good'. I said: 'Sure, but Microsoft ships it anyway'.

Life is about family and technology.

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

There's a lot that can be done for people who are using technology in a better way.

MS-DOS, an OS originally designed for a microprocessor that modern kitchen appliances would sneer at.