Technology Quotes

Innovation distinguishes between a leader and a follower.

Most of you are familiar with the virtues of a programmer. There are three, of course: laziness, impatience, and hubris.

The Internet? Is that thing still around?

Measuring programming progress by lines of code is like measuring aircraft building progress by weight.

Imagine if every Thursday your shoes exploded if you tied them the usual way. This happens to us all the time with computers, and nobody thinks of complaining.

Modern technology Owes ecology An apology.

Every day were saying, 'How can we keep this customer happy?' How can we get ahead in innovation by doing this, because if we don't, somebody else will.

The string is a stark data structure and everywhere it is passed there is much duplication of process. It is a perfect vehicle for hiding information.

The use of COBOL cripples the mind; its teaching should therefore be regarded as a criminal offense.

Software companies should take more responsibility for security holes, especially in browsers and e-mail clients. There are some straightforward things the industry should be doing right now to fix things, and I don't know why they haven't been done yet.

What do people mean when they say the computer went down on them?

Users truly don’t know what they want in a program until they use it.

Encryption...is a powerful defensive weapon for free people. It offers a technical guarantee of privacy, regardless of who is running the government... It's hard to think of a more powerful, less dangerous tool for liberty.

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

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

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

From then on, when anything went wrong with a computer, we said it had bugs in it.

For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for Nature cannot be fooled.

I am sometimes something of a lazy person, so when I end up spending a lot of time using something myself — as I did with Google in the earliest of days, I knew it was a big deal.

Every operating system out there is about equal… We all suck.

When we first started, we would message all the time, ... He would log on, and mostly we would just message back and forth at the beginning of the relationship. Now, we use the computer, phones, letters, airlines - everything.

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

The goal of computation is the emulation of our synthetic abilities, not the understanding of our analytic ones.

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

One does not learn computing by using a hand calculator, but one can forget arithmetic.