Technology Quotes

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

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

MS-DOS isn't dead, it just smells that way.

How could this be a problem in a country where we have Intel and Microsoft?

In seeking the unattainable, simplicity only gets in the way.

In 20 or 30 years, you'll be able to hold in your hand as much computing knowledge as exists now in the whole city, or even the whole world.

Fifty years of programming language research, and we end up with C++?

Documentation is like term insurance: It satisfies because almost no one who subscribes to it depends on its benefits.

The best programmers are not marginally better than merely good ones. They are an order-of-magnitude better, measured by whatever standard: conceptual creativity, speed, ingenuity of design, or problem-solving ability.

All programmers are playwrights and all computers are lousy actors.

Be nice to nerds. Chances are you'll end up working for one.

The Internet is like a giant jellyfish. You can't step on it. You can't go around it. You've got to get through it.

If you give someone a program, you will frustrate them for a day; if you teach them how to program, you will frustrate them for a lifetime.

A good system can't have a weak command language.

Computer Science is embarrassed by the computer.

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

I have to say I was a bit shocked to see myself on the cover (TIME magazine). It's really not my style since Yahoo! is something built by a lot more people than just me..

These are best-of-breed computers for consumers looking for the best technology available for advanced multimedia and entertainment applications.

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.

There is so much media now with the Internet and people, and so easy and so cheap to start a newspaper or start a magazine, there’s just millions of voices and people want to be heard.

I think one of the big errors people are making right now is thinking that old-style businesses will be obsolete, when actually they will be an important part of this new civilization. Some retail groups are introducing e-commerce and think that the "bricks" are no longer useful. But they will continue to be important.

To err is human--and to blame it on a computer is even more so.

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.

A computer will do what you tell it to do, but that may be much different from what you had in mind.

Technology is just a tool. In terms of getting the kids working together and motivating them, the teacher is the most important.