Technology Quotes

Innovation distinguishes between a leader and a follower.

Symmetry is a complexity-reducing concept (co-routines include subroutines); seek it everywhere.

There never was a chip, it is said, that Bill Gates couldn't slow down with a new batch of features.

Today is a... digital incarnation of Oz - the Internet - we are a motley group of fools from lions to scarecrows, learning from each other, making and taking responsibility for our decisions, and having fun as we skip down the yellow brick road of investing together!

First, solve the problem. Then, write the code.

It is easier to change the specification to fit the program than vice versa.

Over the centuries the Indians developed sign language for communicating phenomena of interest. Programmers from different tribes (FORTRAN, LISP, ALGOL, SNOBOL, etc.) could use one that doesn't require them to carry a blackboard on their ponies.

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.

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.

This is something we're very committed to, it's something that I think people are underestimating right now as they've seen some of the dot-com promises not come through. I think they're missing the fact that the basic technology is moving forward, the new platforms are here and this vision of the digital decade will be a reality.

Bill Gates is a very rich man today... and do you want to know why? The answer is one word: versions.

I had a fortune cookie the other day and it said: 'Outlook not so good'. I said: 'Sure, but Microsoft ships it anyway'.

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

Considering the flames and intolerance, shouldn't USENET be spelled ABUSENET?

Technology makes the world a new place.

The computer provides the only way to give students a real foundation in 21st-century skills.

If I have seen further it is by standing on the shoulders of giants.

Around computers it is difficult to find the correct unit of time to measure progress. Some cathedrals took a century to complete. Can you imagine the grandeur and scope of a program that would take as long?

You can try to control people, or you can try to have a system that represents reality. I find that knowing what's really happening is more important than trying to control people.

There are managers so preoccupied with their e-mail messages that they never look up from their screens to see what's happening in the nondigital world.

God never made his work for man to mend.

Recursion is the root of computation since it trades description for time.

In a world without walls and fences, who needs Windows and Gates ?

Beware of the Turing tar-pit in which everything is possible but nothing of interest is easy.

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?