Technology Quotes

There is a chasm of carbon and silicon the software can't bridge.

Apple really hasn't weighed in on the sub-$1,000 computer category. Their next step could be refreshing their current products and making pricing changes.

There will always be things we wish to say in our programs that in all known languages can only be said poorly.

We always overestimate the change that will occur in the next two years and underestimate the change that will occur in the next ten. Don't let yourself be lulled into inaction.

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.

We have technology, finally, that for the first time in human history allows people to really maintain rich connections with much larger numbers of people.

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

Pentiums melt in your PC, not in your hand.

I remember turning in my first assignment in elementary school using the computer and the teachers were kind of confused that I had printed it.

Too few people in computer science are aware of some of the informational challenges in biology and their implications for the world. We can store an incredible amount of data very cheaply.

Computer Science is embarrassed by the computer.

If I have seen further it is by standing on the shoulders of giants.

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

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.

When we write programs that "learn", it turns out that we do and they don't.

Any fool can use a computer. Many do.

The last good thing written in C++ was the Pachelbel Canon.

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

Once you understand how to write a program get someone else to write it.

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.

Saying that most of the computer was filled with personal images is simply not accurate.

When we understand knowledge-based systems, it will be as before -- except our fingertips will have been singed.

People say Microsoft paid $14M for using the Rolling Stones song 'Start me up' in their commercials. This is wrong. Microsoft payed $14M only for a part of the song. For instance, they didn't use the line 'You'll make a grown man cry'.

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 completely love playing and designing games and always will. I am so into games that I listen to game music all day. That may sound strange, but you can guarantee I'm a hardcore gamer and would never let you down by designing a crappy title.