Technology Quotes

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%!

To understand a program you must become both the machine and the program.

Man is the best computer we can put aboard a spacecraft... and the only one that can be mass produced with unskilled labor.

First, solve the problem. Then, write the code.

The best book on programming for the layman is "Alice in Wonderland"; but that's because it's the best book on anything for the layman.

The production of too many useful things results in too many useless people.

Microsoft has a new version out, Windows XP, which according to everybody is the ‘most reliable Windows ever.‘ To me, this is like saying that asparagus is ‘the most articulate vegetable ever.

The science of today is the technology of tomorrow.

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

Considering the flames and intolerance, shouldn't USENET be spelled ABUSENET?

There are three kinds of death in this world. There's heart death, there's brain death, and there's being off the network.

A good system can't have a weak command language.

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

I think one of the big errors people are making right now is thinking that old-style businesses will be obsolete, when actually they will be an important part of this new civilization. Some retail groups are introducing e-commerce and think that the "bricks" are no longer useful. But they will continue to be important.

I'm a great believer in new technology and I think new technology is very scary for newspaper companies.

Don't have good ideas if you aren't willing to be responsible for them.

Everything should be built top-down, except the first time.

Every program has (at least) two purposes: the one for which it was written, and another for which it wasn't.

Science and technology revolutionize our lives, but memory, tradition and myth frame our response.

Steve Jobs may have the apple, but Bill Gates has the entire orchard !

If McDonalds were run like a software company, one out of every hundred Big Macs would give you food poisoning, and the response would be, ‘We’re sorry, here’s a coupon for two more.

A LISP programmer knows the value of everything, but the cost of nothing.

Worth noting: running 'reboot -h' does NOT produce a helpful usage message.

It is not about bits, bytes and protocols, but profits, losses and margins.

I remember the difficulty we had in the beginning replacing magnetic cores in memories and eventually we had both cost and performance advantages. But it wasn't at all clear in the beginning.