Technology Quotes

Never before in history has innovation offered promise of so much to so many in so short a time.

Everyone can be taught to sculpt: Michelangelo would have had to be taught not to. So it is with great programmers.

Simplicity does not precede complexity, but follows it.

Technology is a way of organizing the universe so that man doesn't have to experience it.

As soon as we started programming, we found to our surprise that it wasn’t as easy to get programs right as we had thought. Debugging had to be discovered. I can remember the exact instant when I realized that a large part of my life from then on was going to be spent in finding mistakes in my own programs.

Hardware: where the people in your company's software section will tell you the problem is. Software: where the people in your company's hardware section will tell you the problem is.

Yesterday it worked Today it is not working Windows is like that

It has been said that the great scientific disciplines are examples of giants standing on the shoulders of other giants. It has also been said that the software industry is an example of midgets standing on the toes of other midgets.

Computer Science is no more about computers than astronomy is about telescopes.

The first 90% of the code accounts for the first 90% of the development time. The remaining 10% of the code accounts for the other 90% of the development time.

Live TV died in the late 1950s, electronic bulletin boards came along in the mid-1980s, meaning there was about a 25-year gap when it was difficult to put your foot in your mouth and have people all across the country know about it.

There’s an old story about the person who wished his computer were as easy to use as his telephone. That wish has come true, since I no longer know how to use my telephone.

I want people to understand the amazing, positive way our software can make leisure time more enjoyable, and work and businesses more successful.

Technology is not an image of the world but a way of operating on reality. The nihilism of technology lies not only in the fact that it is the most perfect expression of the will to power... but also in the fact that it lacks meaning.

Mac users swear by their computers. PC users swear at their computers.

Too few people in computer science are aware of some of the informational challenges in biology and their implications for the world. We can store an incredible amount of data very cheaply.

When we write programs that "learn", it turns out that we do and they don't.

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.

It's pretty incredible to look back 30 years to when Microsoft was starting and realize how work has been transformed. We're finally getting close to what I call the digital workstyle.

A year spent in artificial intelligence is enough to make one believe in God.

Think of it! With VLSI we can pack 100 ENIACS in 1 sq. cm.

A lot of companies have chosen to downsize, and maybe that was the right thing for them. We chose a different path. Our belief was that if we kept putting great products in front of customers, they would continue to open their wallets.

There are only two industries that refer to their customers as ‘users’.

A carelessly planned project takes three times longer to complete than expected; a carefully planned project takes only twice as long.

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.