Technology Quotes

The most exciting breakthroughs of the 21st century will not occur because of technology but because of an expanding concept of what it means to be human.

Beware of computer programmers that carry screwdrivers.

If you have a procedure with ten parameters, you probably missed some.

WinNT: All the headaches of Unix, but in a pretty, windowed environment.

Only ten percent of the code in any given program will ever execute.

We started putting together a "hotlist" of favorite sites from David and myself, and we called it "Jerry's Guide to the World Wide Web" Before we knew it, people from all over the world were using this database that we created.

Home is where you hang your @.

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

A program without a loop and a structured variable isn't worth writing.

The demand for digital textbooks has increased since its introduction to the marketplace. As students become more familiar with them and computers get faster, larger and more portable, this product will gain in popularity.

We kid ourselves if we think that the ratio of procedure to data in an active data-base system can be made arbitrarily small or even kept small.

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.

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

NO, You cannot dial 911, I'm downloading my mail !!!

One of the main causes of the fall of the Roman Empire was that–lacking zero–they had no way to indicate successful termination of their C programs.

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

Computers will never replace good old-fashioned human stupidity.

It would appear that we have reached the limits of what it is possible to achieve with computer technology, although one should be careful with such statements, as they tend to sound pretty silly in 5 years.

This is a big deal. It's a fairly natural partnership; it shouldn't surprise people, ... We're working on bringing this network-is-the-computer, Net services environment.

The trouble with programmers is that you can never tell what a programmer is doing until it’s too late.

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.

Computing is not about computers any more. It is about living.

Technology favors horrible people.

The research rat of the future allows experimentation without manipulation of the real world. This is the cutting edge of modeling technology.

If I had taken a proprietary control of the Web, then it would never have taken off. People only committed their time to it because they knew it was open, shared: that they could help decide what would happen to it next.. and I wouldn't be raking off 10%!