Technology Quotes

Always code as if the guy who ends up maintaining your code will be a violent psychopath who knows where you live.

Windows NT addresses 2 Gigabytes of RAM, which is more than any application will ever need.

Technology favors horrible people.

If you don't want to be replaced by a computer, don't act like one.

I have to say I was a bit shocked to see myself on the cover (TIME magazine). It's really not my style since Yahoo! is something built by a lot more people than just me..

To err is human--and to blame it on a computer is even more so.

We are always saying to ourself.. we have to innovate. We got to come up with that breakthrough. In fact, the way software works.. so long as you are using your existing software.. you don't pay us anything at all. So we're only paid for breakthroughs.

It's just like a computer. The more you load up, the slower it gets, the more issues arise.

The research rat of the future allows experimentation without manipulation of the real world. This is the cutting edge of modeling technology.

Around computers it is difficult to find the correct unit of time to measure progress. Some cathedrals took a century to complete. Can you imagine the grandeur and scope of a program that would take as long?

The Star Trek computer doesn't seem that interesting. They ask it random questions, it thinks for a while. I think we can do better than that.

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

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.

Americans have the right to have their medical decisions made by them and their doctors, and not by those bureaucrats sitting behind a computer screen hundreds of miles away.

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

Sometimes I think the only universal in the computing field is the fetch-execute cycle.

The most exciting breakthroughs of the 21st century will not occur because of technology but because of an expanding concept of what it means to be human.

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

It makes life difficult ... because law changes very slowly. We have judges who did not grow up with computers and so many do not understand the technology and issues it raises.

Computer : a million morons working at the speed of light.

Think of it! With VLSI we can pack 100 ENIACS in 1 sq. cm.

An adequate bootstrap is a contradiction in terms.

Difference between a virus and windows ? Viruses rarely fail.

Computation has made the tree flower.

The more I C, the less I see.