Technology Quotes

One does not learn computing by using a hand calculator, but one can forget arithmetic.

Like car accidents, most hardware problems are due to driver error.

Early on, when software was developed by computer scientists, just people working with computers, people passed around software because that was how you got computers to do things.

Once you understand how to write a program get someone else to write it.

Technology without hatred can be a blessing. Technology with hatred is always a disaster.

We really care about our brand. We really want it to stand for high quality. We want people to be excited about it, for it to be fun.

There's a whole kind of hip element to it -- now I need this. Right smack in the middle of the 21st century, sophistication is marrying itself to a very old-fashioned notion of a table where you play games, long before television, video games and home computers. The deck of cards now has become cool again.

Macintosh computer are easy to use. It's also easy to stick your hand in a wood chipper.

The ultimate search engine would basically understand everything in the world, and it would always give you the right thing. And we're a long, long ways from that.

Unfortunately this was an older file that this person hadn't opened in quite a while. The person who uses this computer had missed it.

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

We know by now that if we make technology the predestined force in our lives, man will walk to the measure of its demands. We know how leveling that influence can be, how easy it is to computerize man and make him a servile thing in a vast industrial complex. . . . This means we must subject the machine -- technology -- to control and cease despoiling the earth and filling people with goodies merely to make money.

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.

Spending an evening on the World Wide Web is much like sitting down to a dinner of Cheetos, two hours later your fingers are yellow and you're no longer hungry, but you haven't been nourished.

If a listener nods his head when you're explaining your program, wake him up.

A LISP programmer knows the value of everything, but the cost of nothing.

One would think that if you're anonymous, you'd do anything you want, but groups have their own sense of community and what we can do.

Syntactic sugar causes cancer of the semicolon.

Ever notice how fast Windows runs ? — Neither did I.

I think Amazon is the preeminent pioneer in building a new way of doing commerce: personalized, database-driven commerce, where the big value is not in the purchase fulfillment, but in knowing as much about a customer base of ten or twenty million people as a corner store used to know about a customer base of a few hundred. In today's mass-merchandising world, that's largely gone; Amazon is trying to use computer technology to re-establish it.

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.

I just the other day got, an internet was sent by my staff at 10 o'clock in the morning on Friday and I just got it yesterday. Why ? Because it got tangled up with all these things going on the internet commercially... They want to deliver vast amounts of information over the internet. And again, the internet is not something you just dump something on. It's not a truck. It's a series of tubes. And if you don't understand those tubes can be filled and if they are filled, when you put your message in, it gets in line and its going to be delayed by anyone that puts into that tube enormous amounts of material, enormous amounts of material.

Almost everybody today believes that nothing in economic history has ever moved as fast as, or had a greater impact than, the Information Revolution. But the Industrial Revolution moved at least as fast in the same time span, and had probably an equal impact if not a greater one.

If two people write exactly the same program, each should be put into microcode and then they certainly won't be the same.

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.