Technology Quotes

One can only display complex information in the mind. Like seeing, movement or flow or alteration of view is more important than the static picture, no matter how lovely.

In programming, as in everything else, to be in error is to be reborn.

Life is about family and technology.

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

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

I think Amazon is the preeminent pioneer in building a new way of doing commerce: personalized, database-driven commerce, where the big value is not in the purchase fulfillment, but in knowing as much about a customer base of ten or twenty million people as a corner store used to know about a customer base of a few hundred. In today's mass-merchandising world, that's largely gone; Amazon is trying to use computer technology to re-establish it.

The Internet is not just one thing, it's a collection of things - of numerous communications networks that all speak the same digital language.

The science of today is the technology of tomorrow.

Men are from Mars. Women are from Venus. Computers are from hell.

Technology is a gift of God. After the gift of life it is perhaps the greatest of God's gifts. It is the mother of civilizations, of arts and of sciences.

A great lathe operator commands several times the wage of an average lathe operator, but a great writer of software code is worth 10,000 times the price of an average software writer.

There are only two kinds of programming languages: those people always bitch about and those nobody uses.

It is extremely unlikely that anyone coming out of school with a technical degree will go into one area and stay there. Today's students have to look forward to the excitement of probably having three or four careers.

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

Our mission is to organize the world's information. Clearly, the more information we have when we do a search, the better it's going to work.

A language that doesn't affect the way you think about programming, is not worth knowing.

Apple really hasn't weighed in on the sub-$1,000 computer category. Their next step could be refreshing their current products and making pricing changes.

A printer consists of three main parts: the case, the jammed paper tray and the blinking red light.

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A thunderstorm is God's way of saying you spend too much time in front of the computer.

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.

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.

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

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.

A good system can't have a weak command language.