Technology Quotes

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

Debugging is twice as hard as writing the code in the first place. Therefore, if you write the code as cleverly as possible, you are–by definition–not smart enough to debug it.

Software is under a constant tension. Being symbolic it is arbitrarily perfectible; but also it is arbitrarily changeable.

Apparently, Windows 98 is going to be renamed 'Diana, Princess of Windows'. It's overrated, overpriced, consumes loads of resources and crashes spectacularly...

Windows NT crashed. I am the Blue Screen of Death. No one hears your screams.

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

Be nice to geeks when you're in school, you might end-up working for one when you grow-up.

Part of our brand is that we're pretty understated in what we do. If you look at other technology companies, they might preannounce things, and it will be a couple years before they really happen, and they don't happen in the way they said they would.

There is only one satisfying way to boot a computer.

The goal of computation is the emulation of our synthetic abilities, not the understanding of our analytic ones.

NO, You cannot dial 911, I'm downloading my mail !!!

Because of its vitality, the computing field is always in desperate need of new cliches: Banality soothes our nerves.

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 most amazing achievement of the computer software industry is its continuing cancellation of the steady and staggering gains made by the computer hardware industry.

What boots up must come down.

Better to be a geek than an idiot.

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

It is practically impossible to teach good programming style to students that have had prior exposure to BASIC. As potential programmers, they are mentally mutilated beyond hope of regeneration.

Technology is just a tool. In terms of getting the kids working together and motivating them, the teacher is the most important.

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

Technology is like a fish. The longer it stays on the shelf, the less desirable it becomes.

The lifeblood of our business is that R&D spend. There's nothing that flows through a pipe or down a wire or anything else. We have to continuously create new innovation that lets people do something they didn't think they could do the day before.

It is not the computer's fault that Maxwell's equations are not adequate to design the electric motor.

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

One does not learn computing by using a hand calculator, but one can forget arithmetic.