Technology Quotes

'Intel Inside': The world's most widely used warning label.

Good code is its own best documentation.

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.

Always code as if the guy who ends up maintaining your code will be a violent psychopath who knows where you live.

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.

Computer language design is just like a stroll in the park. Jurassic Park, that is.

When music technology takes the place of musicianship, it's time to pull the plug.

Microsoft is now talking about the digital nervous system... I guess I would be nervous if my system was built on their technology too.

People say Microsoft paid $14M for using the Rolling Stones song 'Start me up' in their commercials. This is wrong. Microsoft payed $14M only for a part of the song. For instance, they didn't use the line 'You'll make a grown man cry'.

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.

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

Don't have good ideas if you aren't willing to be responsible for them.

Within a computer natural language is unnatural.

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.

Innovation distinguishes between a leader and a follower.

Real programmers can write assembly code in any language.

The city’s central computer told you? R2D2, you know better than to trust a strange computer!

A language that doesn't affect the way you think about programming, is not worth knowing.

The purpose of medicine is to prevent significant disease, to decrease pain and to postpone death... Technology has to support these goals-if not, it may even be counterproductive.

AOL is like the cockroach left after the nuclear bomb hits. They know how to survive.

The Internet is so big, so powerful and pointless that for some people it is a complete substitute for life.

I also introduce skills like using a hula hoop or jumping rope. I think many kids this age need a break from the computer or video games to learn these very important physical skills.

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

Users truly don’t know what they want in a program until they use it.

It is not about bits, bytes and protocols, but profits, losses and margins.