Technology Quotes

We always overestimate the change that will occur in the next two years and underestimate the change that will occur in the next ten. Don't let yourself be lulled into inaction.

Vista is the the George W Bush of the technology industry.

Programmers are in a race with the Universe to create bigger and better idiot-proof programs, while the Universe is trying to create bigger and better idiots. So far the Universe is winning.

Technological progress has merely provided us with more efficient means for going backwards.

Once a new technology rolls over you, if you're not part of the steamroller, you're part of the road.

If we believe in data structures, we must believe in independent (hence simultaneous) processing. For why else would we collect items within a structure? Why do we tolerate languages that give us the one without the other?

Ours is a world of nuclear giants and ethical infants. If we continue to develop our technology without wisdom or prudence, our servant may prove to be our executioner.

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

There is some confusion because we only recently began our marketing. We're in an era were people need to think about business processes and applications horizontally...We need to think of the enterprise not as an island of stand-alone technology.

Any given program, once deployed, is already obsolete.

Humanity is acquiring all the right technology for all the wrong reasons.

Software is like sex: It’s better when it’s free.

The issues involved are sufficiently important that courses are now moving out of the philosophy departments and into mainstream computer science. And they affect everyone. Many of the students attracted to these courses are not technology majors, and many of the topics we discuss relate to ethical challenges that transcend the computer world.

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

Five years ago, we thought of the Web as a new medium, not a new economy.

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

You can define advertising as the science of creating and placing media that interrupts the consumer and then gets him or her to take some action.

The computer is the most extraordinary of man's technological clothing; it's an extension of our central nervous system. Beside it, the wheel is a mere hula-hoop.

Overall, OS/2's problems fall into two categories: IBM and Microsoft.

The Internet: where men are men, women are men, and children are FBI agents.

Technology presumes there's just one right way to do things and there never is.

I wish life had an Undo function.

Programmers are tools for converting caffeine into code.

To go forward, you must backup.

Look at growth, look at how much time people spend on the Net and look at the variety of things that they are doing. It's all really good, so I am actually encouraged by the fundamentals that underlie usage growth on the Net.