Technology Quotes

It is better to have 100 functions operate on one data structure than 10 functions on 10 data structures.

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

The real problem is not whether machines think but whether men do.

Symmetry is a complexity-reducing concept (co-routines include subroutines); seek it everywhere.

If computers get too powerful, we can organize them into committees. That'll do them in.

We hope that the Internet becomes even more affordable and more ubiquitous over time, and our mission at Yahoo! is to continue to keep our services available AND useful on all these platforms.

The Star Trek computer doesn't seem that interesting. They ask it random questions, it thinks for a while. I think we can do better than that.

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

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

I still have my laptop but I haven't used it. I'm a paper man, not electronic.

Beware of computer programmers that carry screwdrivers.

For a list of all the ways technology has failed to improve the quality of life, please press three.

It is a tremendous responsibility for us to have all the eyes focused on what we do and give people exactly what they need when they ask for it.

The Internet is a great way to get on the net.

If you automate a mess, you get an automated mess.

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

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.

You can’t have great software without a great team, and most software teams behave like dysfunctional families.

The Internet is the end of civilizations, cultures, interests and ethics.

We’re gambling on our vision, and we would rather do that than make “me too” products. Let some other companies do that. For us, it’s always the next dream.

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.

The best way to prepare [to be a programmer] is to write programs, and to study great programs that other people have written. In my case, I went to the garbage cans at the Computer Science Center and fished out listings of their operating system.

Fools ignore complexity. Pragmatists suffer it. Some can avoid it. Geniuses remove it.

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..

I get mail, therefore I am.