Technology Quotes

First and foremost, the Internet is unique since it is THE only interactive medium -- and that's important because from a content, service, and communications perspective, we web folks try to take advantage of that interactivity.

And bring me a hard copy of the Internet so I can do some serious surfing.

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

If a program manipulates a large amount of data, it does so in a small number of ways.

Considering the flames and intolerance, shouldn't USENET be spelled ABUSENET?

If computers had invented humans as part of a BI program (biological intelligence), humans would have been tossed aside as barely having achieved perfect game play at Tic-Tac-Toe.

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'.

Technology has the shelf life of a banana.

I remember turning in my first assignment in elementary school using the computer and the teachers were kind of confused that I had printed it.

If you automate a mess, you get an automated mess.

We hope that the Internet becomes even more affordable and more ubiquitous over time, and our mission at Yahoo! is to continue to keep our services available AND useful on all these platforms.

Microsoft has had its success by doing low-cost products and constantly improving those products and we've really redefined the IT industry to be something that's about a tool for individuals.

What is the difference between a Turing machine and the modern computer? It's the same as that between Hillary's ascent of Everest and the establishment of a Hilton hotel on its peak.

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.

The idea is that instead of going to an online retail site ... and buying a physical CD and having it shipped to you, you actually can buy the song and download the song to your computer hard drive.

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.

The issues involved are sufficiently important that courses are now moving out of the philosophy departments and into mainstream computer science. And they affect everyone. Many of the students attracted to these courses are not technology majors, and many of the topics we discuss relate to ethical challenges that transcend the computer world.

Re graphics: A picture is worth 10K words - but only those to describe the picture. Hardly any sets of 10K words can be adequately described with pictures.

In software systems, it is often the early bird that makes the worm.

Kids today have so many advantages I never had. There's no telling what I could've accomplished with a home computer and a handgun.

The best accelerator available for a Mac is one that causes it to go at 9.81 m/s2.

Worth noting: running 'reboot -h' does NOT produce a helpful usage message.

Adding programmers to a late project makes it later.

The computer reminds one of Lon Chaney -- it is the machine of a thousand faces.

That can be a good tax planning tool for small businesses - especially if you get a computer or something that you were planning to buy (in the coming year anyway).