Technology Quotes

The protection of personal information stored on our nation's computer systems is critical to public trust in those networks and to the health of our economy.

The goal of computation is the emulation of our synthetic abilities, not the understanding of our analytic ones.

We started putting together a "hotlist" of favorite sites from David and myself, and we called it "Jerry's Guide to the World Wide Web" Before we knew it, people from all over the world were using this database that we created.

It is easier to write an incorrect program than understand a correct one.

The interesting thing is when we design and architect a server, we don't design it for Windows or Linux, we design it for both. We don't really care, as long as we're selling the one the customer wants.

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.

As network administrator I can take down the network with one keystroke. It's just like being a doctor but without getting gooky stuff on my paws.

If we had had the right technology back then, you would have seen Eva Braun on the Donahue show and Adolf Hitler on Meet the Press.

The best museums and museum exhibits about science or technology give you the feeling that, hey, this is interesting, but maybe I could do something here, too.

Kids today have so many advantages I never had. There's no telling what I could've accomplished with a home computer and a handgun.

Ever notice how fast Windows runs ? — Neither did I.

It is dangerously destabilizing to have half the world on the cutting edge of technology while the other half struggles on the bare edge of survival.

Anyone who spends their life on a computer is pretty unusual.

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.

In computing, turning the obvious into the useful is a living definition of the word "frustration".

I hope that the internet will get to become ubiquitous and affordable, and if that's achieved, I think it'll be a big part of people's lives - for the better.

When someone says "I want a programming language in which I need only say what I wish done," give him a lollipop.

Good code is its own best documentation.

The great thing about Object Oriented code is that it can make small, simple problems look like large, complex ones.

First learn computer science and all the theory. Next develop a programming style. Then forget all that and just hack.

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.

For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for Nature cannot be fooled.

Bill Gates is so rich because he got his wish when he said: 'I wish I had a nickel for every time a PC reboots'.

Programmers are in a race with the Universe to create bigger and better idiot-proof programs, while the Universe is trying to create bigger and better idiots. So far the Universe is winning.

The use of a program to prove the 4-color theorem will not change mathematics - it merely demonstrates that the theorem, a challenge for a century, is probably not important to mathematics.