Technology Quotes

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

Computers are like air conditioners: they stop working when you open windows.

E-mail — When it absolutely, positively has to get lost at the speed of light.

I wish life had an Undo function.

I don't want to be left behind. In fact, I want to be here before the action starts.

Capitalist production, therefore, develops technology, and the combining together of various processes into a social whole, only by sapping the original sources of all wealth - the soil and the labourer.

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

We are always saying to ourself.. we have to innovate. We got to come up with that breakthrough. In fact, the way software works.. so long as you are using your existing software.. you don't pay us anything at all. So we're only paid for breakthroughs.

Buying the right computer and getting it to work properly is no more complicated than building a nuclear reactor from wristwatch parts in a darkened room using only your teeth.

Do you realize if it weren't for Edison we'd be watching TV by candlelight?

People keep asking me what I think of it now that it's done. Hence my protest: The Web is not done!

I still have my laptop but I haven't used it. I'm a paper man, not electronic.

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.

Modern technology Owes ecology An apology.

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

Technology is ruled by two types of people: those who manage what they do not understand, and those who understand what they do not manage.

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

Pixar is the most technically advanced creative company; Apple is the most creatively advanced technical company.

I'm not anti-social; I'm just not user friendly.

There is no programming language–no matter how structured–that will prevent programmers from making bad programs.

Microsoft is not the answer. Microsoft is the question. NO is the answer.

Good programmers use their brains, but good guidelines save us having to think out every case.

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.

All programmers are playwrights and all computers are lousy actors.

Windows NT crashed. I am the Blue Screen of Death. No one hears your screams.