Technology Quotes

I like my job because it involves learning. I like being around smart people who are trying to figure out new things. I like the fact that if people really try they can figure out how to invent things that actually have an impact.

Programmers are in a race with the Universe to create bigger and better idiot-proof programs, while the Universe is trying to create bigger and better idiots. So far the Universe is winning.

The attention span of a computer is only as long as its electrical cord.

This is a big deal. It's a fairly natural partnership; it shouldn't surprise people, ... We're working on bringing this network-is-the-computer, Net services environment.

If at first you don't succeed; call it version 1.0.

If you don't want to be replaced by a computer, don't act like one.

Structured Programming supports the law of the excluded muddle.

Computers in the future may have only 1,000 vacuum tubes and perhapsonly weigh 1 1/2 tons.

Orchestras only need to be sworn at, and a German is consequently at an advantage with them, as English profanity, except in America, has not gone beyond a limited technology of perdition.

We started putting together a "hotlist" of favorite sites from David and myself, and we called it "Jerry's Guide to the World Wide Web" Before we knew it, people from all over the world were using this database that we created.

Information and communications technology unlocks the value of time, allowing and enabling multi-tasking, multi-channels, multi-this and multi-that.

Writing code has a place in the human hierarchy worth somewhere above grave robbing and beneath managing.

The computer reminds one of Lon Chaney -- it is the machine of a thousand faces.

The term reboot comes from the middle age (before computers). Horses who stopped in mid-stride required a boot to the rear to start again. Thus the term to rear-boot, later abbreviated into reboot.

Science is not marginal. Like art, it is a universal possession of humanity, and scientific knowledge has become a vital part of our species' repertory. It comprises what we know of the material world with reasonable certainty. . . . Thanks to science and technology, access to factual information of all kinds is rising exponentially.

The research rat of the future allows experimentation without manipulation of the real world. This is the cutting edge of modeling technology.

Software is like sex: It’s better when it’s free.

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

There are three kinds of death in this world. There's heart death, there's brain death, and there's being off the network.

The number one benefit of information technology is that it empowers people to do what they want to do. It lets people be creative. It lets people be productive. It lets people learn things they didn't think they could learn before, and so in a sense it is all about potential.

High technology has done us one great service: It has retaught us the delight of performing simple and primordial tasks - chopping wood, building a fire, drawing water from a spring.

If google made $1 everytime someone used them to find an answer to a tech support question, they would own microsoft.

We kid ourselves if we think that the ratio of procedure to data in an active data-base system can be made arbitrarily small or even kept small.

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.

In software, we rarely have meaningful requirements. Even if we do, the only measure of success that matters is whether our solution solves the customer’s shifting idea of what their problem is.