Technology Quotes

The number one benefit of information technology is that it empowers people to do what they want to do. It lets people be creative. It lets people be productive. It lets people learn things they didn't think they could learn before, and so in a sense it is all about potential.

In software, we rarely have meaningful requirements. Even if we do, the only measure of success that matters is whether our solution solves the customer’s shifting idea of what their problem is.

The first rule of any technology used in a business is that automation applied to an efficient operation will magnify the efficiency. The second is that automation applied to an inefficient operation will magnify the inefficiency.

Debugging is twice as hard as writing the code in the first place. Therefore, if you write the code as cleverly as possible, you are–by definition–not smart enough to debug it.

In computing, turning the obvious into the useful is a living definition of the word "frustration".

To create a new standard it takes something that's not just a little bit different. It takes something that's really new and really captures people's imagination. And the Macintosh, of all the machines I've ever seen, is the only one that meets that standard.

We're changing the world with technology.

We will create a civilization of the Mind in Cyberspace. May it be more humane and fair than the world your governments have made before.

The term reboot comes from the middle age (before computers). Horses who stopped in mid-stride required a boot to the rear to start again. Thus the term to rear-boot, later abbreviated into reboot.

Technology makes it possible for people to gain control over everything, except over technology.

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

You can measure a programmer's perspective by noting his attitude on the continuing vitality of FORTRAN.

Treat your password like your toothbrush. Don't let anybody else use it, and get a new one every six months.

I get mail, therefore I am.

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.

There is a chasm of carbon and silicon the software can't bridge.

Microsoft has a new version out, Windows XP, which according to everybody is the ‘most reliable Windows ever.‘ To me, this is like saying that asparagus is ‘the most articulate vegetable ever.

If a program is useful, it will have to be changed.

Well Microsoft really does develop some really interesting technology.

In a world without walls and fences, who needs Windows and Gates ?

We're responsible for the creation of the PC industry. The whole idea of compatible machines and lots of software.. that's something we brought to computing. And so it's a responsibility for us to make sure that things like security don't get in the way of that dream.

If Unix is the face of the future I want to go back to quill pens.

I hope that the internet will get to become ubiquitous and affordable, and if that's achieved, I think it'll be a big part of people's lives - for the better.

Why do we want intelligent terminals when there are so many stupid users ?

A computer is like an Old Testament god, with a lot of rules and no mercy.