Technology Quotes

Difference between a virus and windows ? Viruses rarely fail.

Technology is ruled by two types of people: those who manage what they do not understand, and those who understand what they do not manage.

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.

Should array indices start at 0 or 1? My compromise of 0.5 was rejected without, I thought, proper consideration.

It's a fact that more people watch television and get their information that way than read books. I find new technology and new ways of communication very exciting and would like to do more in this field.

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%!

Computer science education cannot make anybody an expert programmer any more than studying brushes and pigment can make somebody an expert painter.

Some things Man was never meant to know. For everything else, there's Google.

I don't want to be left behind. In fact, I want to be here before the action starts.

I had a fortune cookie the other day and it said: 'Outlook not so good'. I said: 'Sure, but Microsoft ships it anyway'.

There was a time when nails were high-tech. There was a time when people had to be told how to use a telephone. Technology is just a tool. People use tools to improve their lives.

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

I get mail, therefore I am.

Results eventually reach a point at which a finer mesh no longer yields an appreciable difference. This type of convergence study helps generate accurate solutions with meshes that are sufficiently dense and yet not overly demanding of computer resources.

The march of science and technology does not imply growing intellectual complexity in the lives of most people. It often means the opposite.

The goal of computation is the emulation of our synthetic abilities, not the understanding of our analytic ones.

The ultimate search engine would basically understand everything in the world, and it would always give you the right thing. And we're a long, long ways from that.

The Internet? Is that thing still around?

A programming language is low level when its programs require attention to the irrelevant.

Every day were saying, 'How can we keep this customer happy?' How can we get ahead in innovation by doing this, because if we don't, somebody else will.

Beware of the Turing tar-pit in which everything is possible but nothing of interest is easy.

Be nice to geeks when you're in school, you might end-up working for one when you grow-up.

It has become appallingly obvious that our technology has exceeded our humanity.

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.

Computers will never replace good old-fashioned human stupidity.