Technology Quotes

A printer consists of three main parts: the case, the jammed paper tray and the blinking red light.

It is the user who should parameterize procedures, not their creators.

God never made his work for man to mend.

This is not a phone business. This is the smallest video camera, it's the smallest computer, smallest TV.

In C++ it’s harder to shoot yourself in the foot, but when you do, you blow off your whole leg.

After growing wildly for years, the field of computing appears to be reaching its infancy.

When we first started, we would message all the time, ... He would log on, and mostly we would just message back and forth at the beginning of the relationship. Now, we use the computer, phones, letters, airlines - everything.

Complexity kills. It sucks the life out of developers, it makes products difficult to plan, build and test, it introduces security challenges, and it causes end-user and administrator frustration.

When we write programs that "learn", it turns out that we do and they don't.

It is not the computer's fault that Maxwell's equations are not adequate to design the electric motor.

The city’s central computer told you? R2D2, you know better than to trust a strange computer!

The danger from computers is not that they will eventually get as smart as men, but that we will meanwhile agree to meet them halfway.

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

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

Syntactic sugar causes cancer of the semicolon.

The Linux philosophy is "Laugh in the face of danger". Oops. Wrong One. "Do it yourself". Yes, that's it.

The system of nature, of which man is a part, tends to be self-balancing, self-adjusting, self-cleansing. Not so with technology.

A hacker on a roll may be able to produce–in a period of a few months–something that a small development group (say, 7-8 people) would have a hard time getting together over a year. IBM used to report that certain programmers might be as much as 100 times as productive as other workers, or more.

Part of our brand is that we're pretty understated in what we do. If you look at other technology companies, they might preannounce things, and it will be a couple years before they really happen, and they don't happen in the way they said they would.

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

There are so many ways to heal. Arrogance may have a place in technology, but not in healing. I need to get out of my own way if I am to heal.

America's technology has turned in upon itself; its corporate form makes it the servant of profits, not the servant of human needs.

Grove giveth and Gates taketh away.

The probability of a flawless demo is inversely proportional to the number of people watching, raised to the power of the amount of money involved.

NO, You cannot dial 911, I'm downloading my mail !!!