Technology Quotes

Real programmers can write assembly code in any language.

Technology: No Place for Wimps!

Get into a rut early: Do the same process the same way. Accumulate idioms. Standardize. The only difference(!) between Shakespeare and you was the size of his idiom list - not the size of his vocabulary.

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

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.

America's technology has turned in upon itself; its corporate form makes it the servant of profits, not the servant of human needs.

If it keeps up, man will atrophy all his limbs but the push-button finger.

Windows is just DOS in drag.

A complex system that works is invariably found to have evolved from a simple system that worked.

Today is a... digital incarnation of Oz - the Internet - we are a motley group of fools from lions to scarecrows, learning from each other, making and taking responsibility for our decisions, and having fun as we skip down the yellow brick road of investing together!

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 newest computer can merely compound, at speed, the oldest problem in the relations between human beings, and in the end the communicator will be confronted with the old problem, of what to say and how to say it.

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

The best programmers are not marginally better than merely good ones. They are an order-of-magnitude better, measured by whatever standard: conceptual creativity, speed, ingenuity of design, or problem-solving ability.

Everyone has a right to a university degree in America, even if it's in Hamburger Technology.

If GM had kept up with technology like the computer industry has, we would all be driving $25 cars that got 1000 MPG.

Computers can now keep a man's every transgression recorded in a permanent memory bank, duplicating with complex programming and intricate wiring a feat his wife handles quite well without fuss or fanfare.

Like punning, programming is a play on words.

Not even computers will replace committees, because committees buy computers.

Programming is like sex: one mistake and you’re providing support for a lifetime.

A computer makes it possible to do, in half an hour, tasks which were completely unnecessary to do before.

Technology... is a queer thing. It brings you great gifts with one hand, and it stabs you in the back with the other.

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'.

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.

The computer provides the only way to give students a real foundation in 21st-century skills.