Technology Quotes

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.

They're growing at three to four times the personal computer market.

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

Upwards of two hundred species.. mostly of the large, slow-breeding variety.. are becoming extinct here every day because more and more of the earth's carrying capacity is systematically being converted into human carrying capacity. These species are being burnt out, starved out, and squeezed out of existence.. thanks to technologies that most people, I'm afraid, think of as technologies of peace. I hope it will not be too long before the technologies that support our population explosion begin to be perceived as no less hazardous to the future of life on this planet than the endless production of radioactive wastes.

It is only when they go wrong that machines remind you how powerful they are.

Some programming languages manage to absorb change, but withstand progress.

That’s what’s cool about working with computers. They don’t argue, they remember everything, and they don’t drink all your beer.

The Internet is becoming the town square for the global village of tomorrow.

So many good ideas are never heard from again once they embark in a voyage on the semantic gulf.

Not until a program has been in production for at least six months will its most harmful error be discovered.

Any code of your own that you haven’t looked at for six or more months might as well have been written by someone else.

Everyone can be taught to sculpt: Michelangelo would have had to be taught not to. So it is with great programmers.

There's a lot of Google fascination out there and we share it, and we're going to compete, we're going to compete very, very hard.

Many people see technology as the problem behind the so-called digital divide. Others see it as the solution. Technology is neither. It must operate in conjunction with business, economic, political and social system.

Technology has the shelf life of a banana.

The sooner you start coding a program, the longer it will take.

Moore's Law - The number of transistors and resistors on a chip doubles every 24 months

It is the framework which changes with each new technology and not just the picture within the frame.

WinNT: All the headaches of Unix, but in a pretty, windowed environment.

I also introduce skills like using a hula hoop or jumping rope. I think many kids this age need a break from the computer or video games to learn these very important physical skills.

Technology is a gift of God. After the gift of life it is perhaps the greatest of God's gifts. It is the mother of civilizations, of arts and of sciences.

The real accomplishment of modern science and technology consists in taking ordinary men, informing them narrowly and deeply and then, through appropriate organization, arranging to have their knowledge combined with that of other specialized but equally ordinary men. This dispenses with the need for genius. The resulting performance, though less inspiring, is far more predictable.

I believe that this notion of self-publishing, which is what Blogger and blogging are really about, is the next big wave of human communication. The last big wave was Web activity. Before that one it was e-mail. Instant messaging was an extension of e-mail, real-time e-mail.

Part of the inhumanity of the computer is that, once it is competently programmed and working smoothly, it is completely honest.

Mac users swear by their computers. PC users swear at their computers.