Technology Quotes

If I had taken a proprietary control of the Web, then it would never have taken off. People only committed their time to it because they knew it was open, shared: that they could help decide what would happen to it next.. and I wouldn't be raking off 10%!

It is a commonplace of modern technology that problems have solutions before there is knowledge of how they are to be solved.

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.

I'm a great believer in new technology and I think new technology is very scary for newspaper companies.

Technology is so much fun but we can drown in our technology. The fog of information can drive out knowledge.

Treat your password like your toothbrush. Don't let anybody else use it, and get a new one every six months.

The Internet? Is that thing still around?

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

Of course, the best way to get accurate information on Usenet is to post something wrong and wait for corrections.

Windows isn't a virus, viruses do something.

The medium, or process, of our time - electric technology is reshaping and restructuring patterns of social interdependence and every aspect of our personal life. It is forcing us to reconsider and re-evaluate practically every thought, every action.

I have gotten everything from a one-page letter written in pencil to a 50-page computer generated masterpiece.

The term reboot comes from the middle age (before computers). Horses who stopped in mid-stride required a boot to the rear to start again. Thus the term to rear-boot, later abbreviated into reboot.

Today is a... digital incarnation of Oz - the Internet - we are a motley group of fools from lions to scarecrows, learning from each other, making and taking responsibility for our decisions, and having fun as we skip down the yellow brick road of investing together!

All programmers are playwrights and all computers are lousy actors.

The modern computer hovers between the obsolescent and the nonexistent.

A great lathe operator commands several times the wage of an average lathe operator, but a great writer of software code is worth 10,000 times the price of an average software writer.

This is not a phone business. This is the smallest video camera, it's the smallest computer, smallest TV.

If Gore invented the Internet, I invented spell-check.

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

A computer makes it possible to do, in half an hour, tasks which were completely unnecessary to do before.

Humanity is acquiring all the right technology for all the wrong reasons.

What does it say about our culture that personality is now considered a technology, a tool of the trade, not only in politics but in business and the professions? Has everyone been forced to become an actor? In sixteenth century England, actors were.

It is practically impossible to teach good programming style to students that have had prior exposure to BASIC. As potential programmers, they are mentally mutilated beyond hope of regeneration.

We have yet to see the full impact of the open, global marketplace. By 1997 all raw materials and technology will be available everywhere in the world. The only differences between countries and markets will be skill levels, education, and the level of empowerment of the workplace.