Technology Quotes

Vista is the the George W Bush of the technology industry.

Why do we want intelligent terminals when there are so many stupid users ?

Our biggest demographic is the intelligent professional. They've got a computer on their desk, they've got a web browser and they check us out. We are many people's morning cup of coffee.

If the automobile had followed the same development cycle as the computer, a Rolls-Royce would today cost $100, get a million miles per gallon, and explode once a year, killing everyone inside.

Systems have sub-systems and sub-systems have sub- systems and so on ad infinitum - which is why we're always starting over.

First learn computer science and all the theory. Next develop a programming style. Then forget all that and just hack.

If McDonalds were run like a software company, one out of every hundred Big Macs would give you food poisoning, and the response would be, ‘We’re sorry, here’s a coupon for two more.

The Internet is so big, so powerful and pointless that for some people it is a complete substitute for life.

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.

We are now able to see things in nature of what was previously only available in computer simulation.

Making something variable is easy. Controlling duration of constancy is the trick.

You can measure a programmer's perspective by noting his attitude on the continuing vitality of FORTRAN.

In all large corporations, there is a pervasive fear that someone, somewhere is having fun with a computer on company time. Networks help alleviate that fear.

Complexity kills. It sucks the life out of developers, it makes products difficult to plan, build and test, it introduces security challenges, and it causes end-user and administrator frustration.

Efforts to protect critical computer networks have unfortunately not kept pace with the march of technology.

A lot of companies have chosen to downsize, and maybe that was the right thing for them. We chose a different path. Our belief was that if we kept putting great products in front of customers, they would continue to open their wallets.

Pentiums melt in your PC, not in your hand.

A world technology means either a world government or world suicide.

The sooner you start coding a program, the longer it will take.

Bill Gates is so rich because he got his wish when he said: 'I wish I had a nickel for every time a PC reboots'.

Yesterday it worked Today it is not working Windows is like that

The best book on programming for the layman is "Alice in Wonderland"; but that's because it's the best book on anything for the layman.

There are only two industries that refer to their customers as ‘users’.

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.

Every program is a part of some other program and rarely fits.