Technology Quotes

Most software today is very much like an Egyptian pyramid with millions of bricks piled on top of each other, with no structural integrity, but just done by brute force and thousands of slaves.

MS-DOS isn't dead, it just smells that way.

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

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

Software is under a constant tension. Being symbolic it is arbitrarily perfectible; but also it is arbitrarily changeable.

This is a highly reliable power source. Being a large credit card processor, doing $6 million an hour in transactions, our computers have to work.

I think computer viruses should count as life. I think it says something about human nature that the only form of life we have created so far is purely destructive. We've created life in our own image.

There are broken toilets left there, old computers and miscellaneous garbage. They are totally unsupervised. The recycling company is good, but when people want to dump trash, they dump trash.

You can’t have great software without a great team, and most software teams behave like dysfunctional families.

We are now able to see things in nature of what was previously only available in computer simulation.

I completely love playing and designing games and always will. I am so into games that I listen to game music all day. That may sound strange, but you can guarantee I'm a hardcore gamer and would never let you down by designing a crappy title.

We’re gambling on our vision, and we would rather do that than make “me too” products. Let some other companies do that. For us, it’s always the next dream.

As we go forward, I hope we're going to continue to use technology to make really big differences in how people live and work.

A thunderstorm is God's way of saying you spend too much time in front of the computer.

Because of its vitality, the computing field is always in desperate need of new cliches: Banality soothes our nerves.

In computing, invariants are ephemeral.

A Windows user spends 1/3 of his life sleeping, 1/3 working, 1/3 waiting.

Daddy, what does FORMATTING DRIVE C mean?

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

We are very much believers that the web is an open environment, and we need to make sure that people can find all kinds of different stuff through Yahoo!, and not necessarily keeping people within Yahoo!

The modern computer hovers between the obsolescent and the nonexistent.

The only constructive theory connecting neuroscience and psychology will arise from the study of software.

Imagination is more important than knowledge. For knowledge is limited to all we now know and understand, while imagination embraces the entire world, and all there ever will be to know and understand.

Program complexity grows until it exceeds the capabilities of the programmer who must maintain it.

Technology has the shelf life of a banana.