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.

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's pretty incredible to look back 30 years to when Microsoft was starting and realize how work has been transformed. We're finally getting close to what I call the digital workstyle.

What the country needs are a few labor-making inventions.

A programming language is low level when its programs require attention to the irrelevant.

When we first started, we would message all the time, ... He would log on, and mostly we would just message back and forth at the beginning of the relationship. Now, we use the computer, phones, letters, airlines - everything.

In view of all the deadly computer viruses that have been spreading lately, Weekend Update would like to remind you: when you link up to another computer, you're linking up to every computer that that computer has ever linked up to.

It's not that we use technology, we live technology.

Overall, OS/2's problems fall into two categories: IBM and Microsoft.

As we go forward, I hope we're going to continue to use technology to make really big differences in how people live and work.

Optimization hinders evolution.

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.

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.

The best museums and museum exhibits about science or technology give you the feeling that, hey, this is interesting, but maybe I could do something here, too.

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

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.

Worth noting: running 'reboot -h' does NOT produce a helpful usage message.

The telephone wire, as we know it, has become too slow and too small to handle Internet traffic. It took 75 years for telephones to be used by 50 million customers, but it took only four years for the Internet to reach that many users.

You can’t have great software without a great team, and most software teams behave like dysfunctional families.

The only people who have anything to fear from free software are those whose products are worth even less.

Advances in computer technology and the Internet have changed the way America works, learns, and communicates. The Internet has become an integral part of America's economic, political, and social life.

I also introduce skills like using a hula hoop or jumping rope. I think many kids this age need a break from the computer or video games to learn these very important physical skills.

Perhaps if we wrote programs from childhood on, as adults we'd be able to read them.

A computer will do what you tell it to do, but that may be much different from what you had in mind.

Dating a girl is just like writing software. Everything's going to work just fine in the testing lab (dating), but as soon as you have contract with a customer (marriage), then your program (life) is going to be facing new situations you never expected. You'll be forced to patch the code (admit you're wrong) and then the code (wife) will just end up all bloated and unmaintainable in the end.