Technology Quotes

Our business is about technology, yes. But it's also about operations and customer relationships.

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

They should never have entered him in that computer. It's just common sense? that's the bottom line. I don't think it should have gotten this far.

I like my job because it involves learning. I like being around smart people who are trying to figure out new things. I like the fact that if people really try they can figure out how to invent things that actually have an impact.

There are only two industries that refer to their customers as ‘users’.

With engineering, I view this year's failure as next year's opportunity to try it again. Failures are not something to be avoided. You want to have them happen as quickly as you can so you can make progress rapidly.

[Smart] is an elusive concept. There's a certain sharpness, an ability to absorb new facts. To ask an insightful question. To relate to domains that may not seem connected at first. A certain creativity that allows people to be effective.

Unfortunately this was an older file that this person hadn't opened in quite a while. The person who uses this computer had missed it.

I would love to change the world, but they won't give me the source code.

It makes life difficult ... because law changes very slowly. We have judges who did not grow up with computers and so many do not understand the technology and issues it raises.

Any code of your own that you haven’t looked at for six or more months might as well have been written by someone else.

In C++ it’s harder to shoot yourself in the foot, but when you do, you blow off your whole leg.

The effort required to correct an error increases exponentially with time.

As network administrator I can take down the network with one keystroke. It's just like being a doctor but without getting gooky stuff on my paws.

Technology is like a fish. The longer it stays on the shelf, the less desirable it becomes.

Paper is no longer a big part of my day. I get 90% of my news online, and when I go to a meeting and want to jot things down, I bring my Tablet PC. It's fully synchronized with my office machine so I have all the files I need.

Many people see technology as the problem behind the so-called digital divide. Others see it as the solution. Technology is neither. It must operate in conjunction with business, economic, political and social system.

Food for thought: A fully-protected-and-updated Windows box cannot, by definition, have an uptime of more than 30 days.

Everybody who runs a Web site knows we're not assured of compatibility.

The perfect computer has been developed. You just feed in your problems and they never come out again.

That’s what’s cool about working with computers. They don’t argue, they remember everything, and they don’t drink all your beer.

Any non-trivial program contains at least one error.

Windows isn't a virus, viruses do something.

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

Windows 95: It's like upgrading from Reagan to Bush.