Technology Quotes

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.

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..

Apparently, Windows 98 is going to be renamed 'Diana, Princess of Windows'. It's overrated, overpriced, consumes loads of resources and crashes spectacularly...

Moore's Law - The number of transistors and resistors on a chip doubles every 24 months

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.

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

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.

Computers are useless. They can only give you answers.

The new information technology—Internet and e-mail—have practically eliminated the physical costs of communications.

INSERT DISK THREE' ? But I can only get two in the drive !

The issues involved are sufficiently important that courses are now moving out of the philosophy departments and into mainstream computer science. And they affect everyone. Many of the students attracted to these courses are not technology majors, and many of the topics we discuss relate to ethical challenges that transcend the computer world.

The only constructive theory connecting neuroscience and psychology will arise from the study of software.

The technologies which have had the most profound effects on human life are usually simple.

Software expands to consume all available resources.

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

And bring me a hard copy of the Internet so I can do some serious surfing.

One machine can do the work of fifty ordinary men. No machine can do the work of one extraordinary man.

That can be a good tax planning tool for small businesses - especially if you get a computer or something that you were planning to buy (in the coming year anyway).

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

Ours is a world of nuclear giants and ethical infants. If we continue to develop our technology without wisdom or prudence, our servant may prove to be our executioner.

First and foremost, the Internet is unique since it is THE only interactive medium -- and that's important because from a content, service, and communications perspective, we web folks try to take advantage of that interactivity.

Whenever two programmers meet to criticize their programs, both are silent.

Only ten percent of the code in any given program will ever execute.

The best book on programming for the layman is "Alice in Wonderland"; but that's because it's the best book on anything for the layman.

The bulk of all patents are crap. Spending time reading them is stupid. It’s up to the patent owner to do so, and to enforce them.