Technology Quotes

640K ought to be enough for anybody.

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.

Back up my hard disk ? I can't find the reverse switch !

To better understand why you need a personal computer, let's take a look at the pathetic mess you call your life.

Ooops. My brain just hit a bad sector.

Any non-trivial program contains at least one error.

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

The medium is the message. This is merely to say that the personal and social consequences of any medium / that is, of any extension of ourselves / result from the new scale that is introduced into our affairs by each extension of ourselves, or by any new technology.

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

Any significant boost in technology could just as easily be a rigged demo.

With engineering, I view this year's failure as next year's opportunity to try it again. Failures are not something to be avoided. You want to have them happen as quickly as you can so you can make progress rapidly.

This is a highly reliable power source. Being a large credit card processor, doing $6 million an hour in transactions, our computers have to work.

It’s ridiculous to live 100 years and only be able to remember 30 million bytes. You know, less than a compact disc. The human condition is really becoming more obsolete every minute.

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.

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

The science of today is the technology of tomorrow.

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'.

AOL is like the cockroach left after the nuclear bomb hits. They know how to survive.

If we had had the right technology back then, you would have seen Eva Braun on the Donahue show and Adolf Hitler on Meet the Press.

Competition is always a fantastic thing, and the computer industry is intensely competitive. Whether it's Google or Apple or free software, we've got some fantastic competitors and it keeps us on our toes.

Men are from Mars. Women are from Venus. Computers are from hell.

Early on, when software was developed by computer scientists, just people working with computers, people passed around software because that was how you got computers to do things.

It's not that we use technology, we live technology.

I would love to change the world, but they won't give me the source code.

Any teacher that can be replaced by a computer, deserves to be.