Technology Quotes

Difference between a virus and windows ? Viruses rarely fail.

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.

It’s ridiculous to live 100 years and only be able to remember 30 million bytes. You know, less than a compact disc. The human condition is really becoming more obsolete every minute.

Not even computers will replace committees, because committees buy computers.

Is it possible that software is not like anything else, that it is meant to be discarded: that the whole point is to see it as a soap bubble?

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.

And bring me a hard copy of the Internet so I can do some serious surfing.

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.

Technological progress has merely provided us with more efficient means for going backwards.

If we continue to develop our technology without wisdom or prudence, our servant may prove to be our executioner.

The use of COBOL cripples the mind; its teaching should therefore be regarded as a criminal offense.

The bulk of all patents are crap. Spending time reading them is stupid. It’s up to the patent owner to do so, and to enforce them.

First and foremost, the Internet is unique since it is THE only interactive medium -- and that's important because from a content, service, and communications perspective, we web folks try to take advantage of that interactivity.

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.

The newest computer can merely compound, at speed, the oldest problem in the relations between human beings, and in the end the communicator will be confronted with the old problem, of what to say and how to say it.

I had one simple idea about telling friends about arts and technology events. People in the community suggested everything else to us, and that's our theme. We're really run by the people who use the site. We just run the infrastructure, and help out with problems.

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

America's technology has turned in upon itself; its corporate form makes it the servant of profits, not the servant of human needs.

In a 5 year period we get one superb programming language. Only we can't control when the 5 year period will be.

Think of all the psychic energy expended in seeking a fundamental distinction between "algorithm" and "program".

Microsoft: "You've got questions. We've got dancing paperclips."

Every program has (at least) two purposes: the one for which it was written, and another for which it wasn't.

It's a fact that more people watch television and get their information that way than read books. I find new technology and new ways of communication very exciting and would like to do more in this field.

One machine can do the work of fifty ordinary men. No machine can do the work of one extraordinary man.

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