Technology Quotes

If computers get too powerful, we can organize them into committees. That'll do them in.

I see no progress in this industry. These clocks are no faster than the ones they made a hundred years ago.

Competition is always a fantastic thing, and the computer industry is intensely competitive. Whether it's Google or Apple or free software, we've got some fantastic competitors and it keeps us on our toes.

The future masters of technology will have to be light-hearted and intelligent. The machine easily masters the grim and the dumb.

Real programmers can write assembly code in any language.

A distributed system is one in which the failure of a computer you didn't even know existed can render your own computer unusable.

There used to be this country called the Soviet Union; it's not there anymore. Our technology was better than theirs.

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

If you look at the top 20 companies of the world, 19 of them are still brick-and-mortar companies. I have nothing against tech companies. What I am saying is that if you have a car manufacturer or an oil and gas manufacturer, you won’t get the supply over the Net.

Capitalist production, therefore, develops technology, and the combining together of various processes into a social whole, only by sapping the original sources of all wealth - the soil and the labourer.

Computers can figure out all kinds of problems, except the things in the world that just don't add up.

If a program is useful, it will have to be changed.

Apple really hasn't weighed in on the sub-$1,000 computer category. Their next step could be refreshing their current products and making pricing changes.

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.

A great lathe operator commands several times the wage of an average lathe operator, but a great writer of software code is worth 10,000 times the price of an average software writer.

Science and technology revolutionize our lives, but memory, tradition and myth frame our response.

In seeking the unattainable, simplicity only gets in the way.

If future generations are to remember us more with gratitude than sorrow, we must achieve more than just the miracles of technology. We must also leave them a glimpse of the world as it was created, not just as it looked when we got through with it.

The lifeblood of our business is that R&D spend. There's nothing that flows through a pipe or down a wire or anything else. We have to continuously create new innovation that lets people do something they didn't think they could do the day before.

Hey ! It compiles ! Ship it !

Microsoft is now talking about the digital nervous system... I guess I would be nervous if my system was built on their technology too.

If you can't make it good, at least make it look good.

Windows is just DOS in drag.

If a program manipulates a large amount of data, it does so in a small number of ways.

The difference between e-mail and regular mail is that computers handle e-mail, and computers never decide to come to work one day and shoot all the other computers.