Technology Quotes

Technological progress is like an axe in the hands of a pathological criminal.

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.

After growing wildly for years, the field of computing appears to be reaching its infancy.

eBay's business is based on enabling someone to do business with another person, and to do that, they first have to develop some measure of trust, either in the other person or the system.

Structured Programming supports the law of the excluded muddle.

Programming is like sex: one mistake and you’re providing support for a lifetime.

The fact that I have entered into IT-related business is proof that businesses have to evolve and keep with time. One has to re-invent continuously.

To iterate is human, to recurse divine.

Science is not marginal. Like art, it is a universal possession of humanity, and scientific knowledge has become a vital part of our species' repertory. It comprises what we know of the material world with reasonable certainty. . . . Thanks to science and technology, access to factual information of all kinds is rising exponentially.

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.

A distributed system is one in which the failure of a computer you didn't even know existed can render your own computer unusable.

Often it is the means that justify the ends: Goals advance technique and technique survives even when goal structures crumble.

The insanity of the collective egoic mind, amplified by science and technology, is rapidly taking our species to the brink of disaster. Evolve or die: that is our only choice now.

Undetectable errors are infinite in variety, in contrast to detectable errors, which by definition are limited.

Fools ignore complexity. Pragmatists suffer it. Some can avoid it. Geniuses remove it.

WWW? Nice toy, but what a waste of time.

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

We really care about our brand. We really want it to stand for high quality. We want people to be excited about it, for it to be fun.

Everyone can be taught to sculpt: Michelangelo would have had to be taught not to. So it is with great programmers.

From the time I was 7, when I purchased my first calculator, I was fascinated by the idea of a machine that could compute things.

Functions delay binding; data structures induce binding. Moral: Structure data late in the programming process.

Buying the right computer and getting it to work properly is no more complicated than building a nuclear reactor from wristwatch parts in a darkened room using only your teeth.

Technology does not drive change -- it enables change.

One can only display complex information in the mind. Like seeing, movement or flow or alteration of view is more important than the static picture, no matter how lovely.

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