Technology Quotes

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.

All of the biggest technological inventions created by man - the airplane, the automobile, the computer - says little about his intelligence, but speaks volumes about his laziness.

It is questionable if all the mechanical inventions yet made have lightened the day's toil of any human being.

The future masters of technology will have to be light-hearted and intelligent. The machine easily masters the grim and the dumb.

The digital revolution is far more significant than the invention of writing or even of printing.

The best programmers are not marginally better than merely good ones. They are an order-of-magnitude better, measured by whatever standard: conceptual creativity, speed, ingenuity of design, or problem-solving ability.

The most exciting breakthroughs of the 21st century will not occur because of technology but because of an expanding concept of what it means to be human.

Any code of your own that you haven’t looked at for six or more months might as well have been written by someone else.

A programming language is low level when its programs require attention to the irrelevant.

Database: the information you lose when your memory crashes.

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.

Whenever two programmers meet to criticize their programs, both are silent.

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.

Any significant boost in technology could just as easily be a rigged demo.

You know you're a geek when... You try to shoo a fly away from the monitor with your cursor. That just happened to me. It was scary.

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.

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

True innovation often comes from the small startup who is lean enough to launch a market but lacks the heft to own it.

WinNT: All the headaches of Unix, but in a pretty, windowed environment.

Technology... is a queer thing. It brings you great gifts with one hand, and it stabs you in the back with the other.

Microsoft has had its success by doing low-cost products and constantly improving those products and we've really redefined the IT industry to be something that's about a tool for individuals.

It’s really hard to design products by focus groups. A lot of times, people don’t know what they want until you show it to them.

If the human race wants to go to hell in a basket, technology can help it get there by jet.

If we had had the right technology back then, you would have seen Eva Braun on the Donahue show and Adolf Hitler on Meet the Press.

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