Technology Quotes

To better understand why you need a personal computer, let's take a look at the pathetic mess you call your life.

The idea is that instead of going to an online retail site ... and buying a physical CD and having it shipped to you, you actually can buy the song and download the song to your computer hard drive.

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

Innovation distinguishes between a leader and a follower.

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

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

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.

God never made his work for man to mend.

Though the Chinese should adore APL, it's FORTRAN they put their money on.

A carelessly planned project takes three times longer to complete than expected; a carefully planned project takes only twice as long.

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.

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

The Internet is not just one thing, it's a collection of things - of numerous communications networks that all speak the same digital language.

If Gore invented the Internet, I invented spell-check.

Good code is its own best documentation.

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.

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.

It is not a language's weakness but its strengths that control the gradient of its change: Alas, a language never escapes its embryonic sac.

SUPERCOMPUTER: what it sounded like before you bought it.

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

When someone says "I want a programming language in which I need only say what I wish done," give him a lollipop.

They've grown up with the computer, so they expect things to be faster, including cooking. They like baking by adding things to a mix. In recipes, they want fewer ingredients -- seven is ideal -- and they like step-by-step pictures that show them what to do.

I have gotten everything from a one-page letter written in pencil to a 50-page computer generated masterpiece.

The best accelerator available for a Mac is one that causes it to go at 9.81 m/s2.