Technology Quotes

You can define advertising as the science of creating and placing media that interrupts the consumer and then gets him or her to take some action.

Over time, it's becoming more and more understood by people that we're acting in their interests. And that's a very, very powerful thing for our brand.

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.

In English every word can be verbed. Would that it were so in our programming languages.

Food for thought: A fully-protected-and-updated Windows box cannot, by definition, have an uptime of more than 30 days.

In programming, as in everything else, to be in error is to be reborn.

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.

The Internet is a great way to get on the net.

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

In software, we rarely have meaningful requirements. Even if we do, the only measure of success that matters is whether our solution solves the customer’s shifting idea of what their problem is.

The advance of technology is based on making it fit in so that you don't really even notice it, so it's part of everyday life.

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.

The real problem is not whether machines think but whether men do.

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

My computer must be broken: whenever I ask a wrong question, it gives a wrong answer.

Documentation is like term insurance: It satisfies because almost no one who subscribes to it depends on its benefits.

INSERT DISK THREE' ? But I can only get two in the drive !

It is easier to write an incorrect program than understand a correct one.

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.

This is a big deal. It's a fairly natural partnership; it shouldn't surprise people, ... We're working on bringing this network-is-the-computer, Net services environment.

As technology advances, it reverses the characteristics of every situation again and again. The age of automation is going to be the age of "do it yourself".

The technologies which have had the most profound effects on human life are usually simple.

As soon as we started programming, we found to our surprise that it wasn’t as easy to get programs right as we had thought. Debugging had to be discovered. I can remember the exact instant when I realized that a large part of my life from then on was going to be spent in finding mistakes in my own programs.

Science and technology revolutionize our lives, but memory, tradition and myth frame our response.

Where there is the necessary technical skill to move mountains, there is no need for the faith that moves mountains.