Technology Quotes

It is extremely unlikely that anyone coming out of school with a technical degree will go into one area and stay there. Today's students have to look forward to the excitement of probably having three or four careers.

Our business is about technology, yes. But it's also about operations and customer relationships.

It is not a language's weakness but its strengths that control the gradient of its change: Alas, a language never escapes its embryonic sac.

If Unix is the face of the future I want to go back to quill pens.

When we first started, we would message all the time, ... He would log on, and mostly we would just message back and forth at the beginning of the relationship. Now, we use the computer, phones, letters, airlines - everything.

If McDonalds were run like a software company, one out of every hundred Big Macs would give you food poisoning, and the response would be, ‘We’re sorry, here’s a coupon for two more.

It's just like a computer. The more you load up, the slower it gets, the more issues arise.

If two people write exactly the same program, each should be put into microcode and then they certainly won't be the same.

There are managers so preoccupied with their e-mail messages that they never look up from their screens to see what's happening in the nondigital world.

All programmers are playwrights and all computers are lousy actors.

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 use of COBOL cripples the mind; its teaching should therefore be regarded as a criminal offense.

Unix was not designed to stop you from doing stupid things, because that would also stop you from doing clever things.

Too few people in computer science are aware of some of the informational challenges in biology and their implications for the world. We can store an incredible amount of data very cheaply.

If google made $1 everytime someone used them to find an answer to a tech support question, they would own microsoft.

Systems have sub-systems and sub-systems have sub- systems and so on ad infinitum - which is why we're always starting over.

I still have my laptop but I haven't used it. I'm a paper man, not electronic.

What boots up must come down.

Database: the information you lose when your memory crashes.

Be nice to nerds. Chances are you'll end up working for one.

If computers get too powerful, we can organize them into committees. That'll do them in.

We've all heard that a million monkeys banging on a million typewriters will eventually reproduce the entire works of Shakespeare. Now, thanks to the Internet, we know this is not true.

Man is the best computer we can put aboard a spacecraft... and the only one that can be mass produced with unskilled labor.

You can either have software quality or you can have pointer arithmetic, but you cannot have both at the same time.

Technology does not run an enterprise, relationships do.