Technology Quotes

Programming is like sex: one mistake and you’re providing support for a lifetime.

Systems have sub-systems and sub-systems have sub- systems and so on ad infinitum - which is why we're always starting over.

I think it's fair to say that personal computers have become the most empowering tool we've ever created. They're tools of communication, they're tools of creativity, and they can be shaped by their user.

Good code is its own best documentation.

It is practically impossible to teach good programming style to students that have had prior exposure to BASIC. As potential programmers, they are mentally mutilated beyond hope of regeneration.

There's a great desire to be computer-savvy among those 50 and older. They're really hungry for it.

We are on the verge: Today our program proved Fermat's next-to-last theorem.

I have an almost religious zeal.. not for technology per se, but for the Internet which is for me, the nervous system of mother Earth, which I see as a living creature, linking up.

Technology is like a fish. The longer it stays on the shelf, the less desirable it becomes.

We've all heard that a million monkeys banging on a million typewriters will eventually reproduce the entire works of Shakespeare. Now, thanks to the Internet, we know this is not true.

Software companies should take more responsibility for security holes, especially in browsers and e-mail clients. There are some straightforward things the industry should be doing right now to fix things, and I don't know why they haven't been done yet.

The only truly secure computer is one buried in concrete, with the power turned off and the network cable cut.

A friend called me up the other day and talked about investing in a dot-com that sells lobsters. Internet lobsters. Where will this end? The next day he sent me a huge package of lobsters on ice. How low can you stoop?

I find sitting at a specially equipped desk in front of some pretty ugly plastics and staring at a little window is a very unnatural event.

I am a hard-core believer that the clean desktop is the way to go... At the same time, we told OEMs that if they were going to put a bunch of icons on the desktop, then so were we.

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

Overall, OS/2's problems fall into two categories: IBM and Microsoft.

You can define advertising as the science of creating and placing media that interrupts the consumer and then gets him or her to take some action.

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.

The cybernetic exchange between man, computer and algorithm is like a game of musical chairs: The frantic search for balance always leaves one of the three standing ill at ease.

It was never clear that it wouldn't just stop (the WWW). Any time during that exponential growth, it could have stalled. I think we were never very confident until 1993.

We have technology, finally, that for the first time in human history allows people to really maintain rich connections with much larger numbers of people.

My understanding is their objective is to increase their capacity for the Internet, search engines. All I know is there's a lot of computers.

Our biggest demographic is the intelligent professional. They've got a computer on their desk, they've got a web browser and they check us out. We are many people's morning cup of coffee.

The most amazing achievement of the computer software industry is its continuing cancellation of the steady and staggering gains made by the computer hardware industry.