Technology Quotes

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?

The best computer is a man, and it's the only one that can be mass-produced by unskilled labor.

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

Not everything that can be counted counts, and not everything that counts can be counted.

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.

In all large corporations, there is a pervasive fear that someone, somewhere is having fun with a computer on company time. Networks help alleviate that fear.

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.

I am sometimes something of a lazy person, so when I end up spending a lot of time using something myself — as I did with Google in the earliest of days, I knew it was a big deal.

The city’s central computer told you? R2D2, you know better than to trust a strange computer!

The Web is like a dominatrix. Everywhere I turn, I see little buttons ordering me to Submit.

Getting Information off the Internet is like taking a drink from a fire hydrant.

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.

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.

Make no mistake about it: Computers process numbers - not symbols. We measure our understanding (and control) by the extent to which we can arithmetize an activity.

Competition is always a fantastic thing, and the computer industry is intensely competitive. Whether it's Google or Apple or free software, we've got some fantastic competitors and it keeps us on our toes.

Technology is a way of organizing the universe so that man doesn't have to experience it.

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

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

The Internet is so big, so powerful and pointless that for some people it is a complete substitute for life.

Bill Gates is the pope of the personal computer industry. He decides who's going to build.

The factory of the future will have only two employees, a man and a dog. The man will be there to feed the dog. The dog will be there to keep the man from touching the equipment.

To turn really interesting ideas and fledgling technologies into a company that can continue to innovate for years, it requires a lot of disciplines.

Optimization hinders evolution.

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

The most exciting breakthroughs of the 21st century will not occur because of technology but because of an expanding concept of what it means to be human.