Technology Quotes

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

The only business that is ever threatened by improved technologies are those that need to be left behind.

We are always saying to ourself.. we have to innovate. We got to come up with that breakthrough. In fact, the way software works.. so long as you are using your existing software.. you don't pay us anything at all. So we're only paid for breakthroughs.

As Will Rogers would have said, "There is no such thing as a free variable."

Computation has made the tree flower.

But they are useless. They can only give you answers.

The new information technology—Internet and e-mail—have practically eliminated the physical costs of communications.

Never let a computer know you're in a hurry.

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.

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

Any non-trivial program contains at least one error.

Computers are like air conditioners: they stop working when you open windows.

Unix is user-friendly. It's just very selective about who its friends are.

Making something variable is easy. Controlling duration of constancy is the trick.

One would think that if you're anonymous, you'd do anything you want, but groups have their own sense of community and what we can do.

Windows 95: It's like upgrading from Reagan to Bush.

Prolonged contact with the computer turns mathematicians into clerks and vice versa.

Macintosh computer are easy to use. It's also easy to stick your hand in a wood chipper.

Beware of computer programmers that carry screwdrivers.

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

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.

I have gotten everything from a one-page letter written in pencil to a 50-page computer generated masterpiece.

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.

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

There will always be things we wish to say in our programs that in all known languages can only be said poorly.