Technology Quotes

Complexity kills. It sucks the life out of developers, it makes products difficult to plan, build and test, it introduces security challenges, and it causes end-user and administrator frustration.

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.

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

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.

If you look at the top 20 companies of the world, 19 of them are still brick-and-mortar companies. I have nothing against tech companies. What I am saying is that if you have a car manufacturer or an oil and gas manufacturer, you won’t get the supply over the Net.

That can be a good tax planning tool for small businesses - especially if you get a computer or something that you were planning to buy (in the coming year anyway).

Controlling complexity is the essence of computer programming.

I want people to understand the amazing, positive way our software can make leisure time more enjoyable, and work and businesses more successful.

My understanding is their objective is to increase their capacity for the Internet, search engines. All I know is there's a lot of computers.

Pentiums melt in your PC, not in your hand.

The attention span of a computer is only as long as its electrical cord.

Well Microsoft really does develop some really interesting technology.

SUPERCOMPUTER: what it sounded like before you bought it.

Back up my hard drive? How do I put it in reverse?

It was a pivotal moment in the history of computers and the history of advertising.

Good code is its own best documentation.

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.

Spending an evening on the World Wide Web is much like sitting down to a dinner of Cheetos, two hours later your fingers are yellow and you're no longer hungry, but you haven't been nourished.

The great thing about Object Oriented code is that it can make small, simple problems look like large, complex ones.

Computers are like Old Testament gods; lots of rules and no mercy.

Computers will never replace good old-fashioned human stupidity.

My software never has bugs. It just develops random features.

The world is coming to an end... SAVE YOUR BUFFERS!

I'm not anti-social; I'm just not user friendly.

The idea is that instead of going to an online retail site ... and buying a physical CD and having it shipped to you, you actually can buy the song and download the song to your computer hard drive.