Technology Quotes

The best museums and museum exhibits about science or technology give you the feeling that, hey, this is interesting, but maybe I could do something here, too.

The lifeblood of our business is that R&D spend. There's nothing that flows through a pipe or down a wire or anything else. We have to continuously create new innovation that lets people do something they didn't think they could do the day before.

If you give someone a program, you will frustrate them for a day; if you teach them how to program, you will frustrate them for a lifetime.

I think computer viruses should count as life. I think it says something about human nature that the only form of life we have created so far is purely destructive. We've created life in our own image.

The Internet is becoming the town square for the global village of tomorrow.

The only people who have anything to fear from free software are those whose products are worth even less.

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

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

My favorite thing about the Internet is that you get to go into the private world of real creeps without having to smell them.

The "Net is a waste of time, and that's exactly what's right about it.

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

In June 1994, while it is still our hobby, we renamed it "yahoo" to stand for "yet another hierarchical officious oracle".

I have to say I was a bit shocked to see myself on the cover (TIME magazine). It's really not my style since Yahoo! is something built by a lot more people than just me..

If the automobile had followed the same development cycle as the computer, a Rolls-Royce would today cost $100, get a million miles per gallon, and explode once a year, killing everyone inside.

Bill Gates is so rich because he got his wish when he said: 'I wish I had a nickel for every time a PC reboots'.

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

The only problem with Microsoft is they just have no taste. They have absolutely no taste. And I don’t mean that in a small way, I mean that in a big way, in the sense that they don’t think of original ideas, and they don’t bring much culture into their products.

This is something we're very committed to, it's something that I think people are underestimating right now as they've seen some of the dot-com promises not come through. I think they're missing the fact that the basic technology is moving forward, the new platforms are here and this vision of the digital decade will be a reality.

In programming, everything we do is a special case of something more general -- and often we know it too quickly.

There are managers so preoccupied with their e-mail messages that they never look up from their screens to see what's happening in the nondigital world.

Software is under a constant tension. Being symbolic it is arbitrarily perfectible; but also it is arbitrarily changeable.

The march of science and technology does not imply growing intellectual complexity in the lives of most people. It often means the opposite.

There's a lot that can be done for people who are using technology in a better way.

The most amazing achievement of the computer software industry is its continuing cancellation of the steady and staggering gains made by the computer hardware industry.

Whereas knights of old wore armor of plate, the modern knights of the air wear the invisible but magic armor of confidence in technology.