Technology Quotes

Technology presumes there's just one right way to do things and there never is.

A program without a loop and a structured variable isn't worth writing.

We started putting together a "hotlist" of favorite sites from David and myself, and we called it "Jerry's Guide to the World Wide Web" Before we knew it, people from all over the world were using this database that we created.

The inside of a computer is as dumb as hell but it goes like mad!

The Internet is the end of civilizations, cultures, interests and ethics.

The debate rages on: is PL/I Bachtrian or Dromedary?

As Will Rogers would have said, "There is no such thing as a free variable."

Technology happens, it's not good, it's not bad. Is steel good or bad?

Some things Man was never meant to know. For everything else, there's Google.

Spending an evening on the World Wide Web is much like sitting down to a dinner of Cheetos, two hours later your fingers are yellow and you're no longer hungry, but you haven't been nourished.

The difference between e-mail and regular mail is that computers handle e-mail, and computers never decide to come to work one day and shoot all the other computers.

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.

This is not a phone business. This is the smallest video camera, it's the smallest computer, smallest TV.

We hope that the Internet becomes even more affordable and more ubiquitous over time, and our mission at Yahoo! is to continue to keep our services available AND useful on all these platforms.

Unix was not designed to stop you from doing stupid things, because that would also stop you from doing clever things.

[Smart] is an elusive concept. There's a certain sharpness, an ability to absorb new facts. To ask an insightful question. To relate to domains that may not seem connected at first. A certain creativity that allows people to be effective.

The Net interprets censorship as damage and routes around it.

I do not fear computers. I fear the lack of them.

It was a pivotal moment in the history of computers and the history of advertising.

If you automate a mess, you get an automated mess.

To turn really interesting ideas and fledgling technologies into a company that can continue to innovate for years, it requires a lot of disciplines.

In programming, as in everything else, to be in error is to be reborn.

The Internet is not just one thing, it's a collection of things - of numerous communications networks that all speak the same digital language.

I get Canadian porno - that's the extent of satellite service and Internet in my house.

The best programmers are not marginally better than merely good ones. They are an order-of-magnitude better, measured by whatever standard: conceptual creativity, speed, ingenuity of design, or problem-solving ability.