Technology Quotes

It's a fact that more people watch television and get their information that way than read books. I find new technology and new ways of communication very exciting and would like to do more in this field.

Never let a computer know you're in a hurry.

Measuring programming progress by lines of code is like measuring aircraft building progress by weight.

Motto for a research laboratory: What we work on today, others will first think of tomorrow.

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.

Looking at the proliferation of personal web pages on the net, it looks like very soon everyone on earth will have 15 Megabytes of fame.

In computing, turning the obvious into the useful is a living definition of the word "frustration".

A friend called me up the other day and talked about investing in a dot-com that sells lobsters. Internet lobsters. Where will this end? The next day he sent me a huge package of lobsters on ice. How low can you stoop?

We’re gambling on our vision, and we would rather do that than make “me too” products. Let some other companies do that. For us, it’s always the next dream.

I get mail, therefore I am.

My software never has bugs. It just develops random features.

Programmers are tools for converting caffeine into code.

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..

We shouldn't build a technology to colour, or grey out, what people say. The media in general is balanced, although there are a lot of issues to be addressed that the media rightly pick up on.

As soon as we started programming, we found to our surprise that it wasn’t as easy to get programs right as we had thought. Debugging had to be discovered. I can remember the exact instant when I realized that a large part of my life from then on was going to be spent in finding mistakes in my own programs.

One good reason why computers can do more work than people is that they never have to stop and answer the phone.

Technology is ruled by two types of people: those who manage what they do not understand, and those who understand what they do not manage.

The most important and urgent problems of the technology of today are no longer the satisfactions of primary needs or of archetypal wishes, but the reparation of the evils and damages by technology of yesterday.

Computers are magnificent tools for the realization of our dreams, but no machine can replace the human spark of spirit, compassion, love, and understanding.

The best museums and museum exhibits about science or technology give you the feeling that, hey, this is interesting, but maybe I could do something here, too.

The spoken word was the first technology by which man was able to let go of his environment in order to grasp it in a new way.

Saying that most of the computer was filled with personal images is simply not accurate.

Bill Gates is so rich because he got his wish when he said: 'I wish I had a nickel for every time a PC reboots'.

Within a computer natural language is unnatural.

The computer is the most extraordinary of man's technological clothing; it's an extension of our central nervous system. Beside it, the wheel is a mere hula-hoop.