Technology Quotes

A printer consists of three main parts: the case, the jammed paper tray and the blinking red light.

When someone says "I want a programming language in which I need only say what I wish done," give him a lollipop.

Silos can't interoperate unless the technology does.

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.

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

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.

MS-DOS, an OS originally designed for a microprocessor that modern kitchen appliances would sneer at.

There are two ways of constructing a software design. One way is to make it so simple that there are obviously no deficiencies. And the other way is to make it so complicated that there are no obvious deficiencies.

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.

Think of all the psychic energy expended in seeking a fundamental distinction between "algorithm" and "program".

The only business that is ever threatened by improved technologies are those that need to be left behind.

These are best-of-breed computers for consumers looking for the best technology available for advanced multimedia and entertainment applications.

The medium is the message. This is merely to say that the personal and social consequences of any medium / that is, of any extension of ourselves / result from the new scale that is introduced into our affairs by each extension of ourselves, or by any new technology.

There are only two kinds of programming languages: those people always bitch about and those nobody uses.

If future generations are to remember us more with gratitude than sorrow, we must achieve more than just the miracles of technology. We must also leave them a glimpse of the world as it was created, not just as it looked when we got through with it.

Computers are magnificent tools for the realization of our dreams, but no machine can replace the human spark of spirit, compassion, love, and understanding.

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

There's no set architecture in Linux. All roads lead to madness.

We're making a major move of the Internet, and runway. Polo.com is a natural extension of both polo.com and our collection business.

Kids today have so many advantages I never had. There's no telling what I could've accomplished with a home computer and a handgun.

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.

It is better to have 100 functions operate on one data structure than 10 functions on 10 data structures.

I find sitting at a specially equipped desk in front of some pretty ugly plastics and staring at a little window is a very unnatural event.

The first 90% of the code accounts for the first 90% of the development time. The remaining 10% of the code accounts for the other 90% of the development time.

Windows is just DOS in drag.