Technology Quotes

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

A computer is like an Old Testament god, with a lot of rules and no mercy.

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 think that it's always possible to have a great company if you have great ideas. I will say that since the web has become more commercialized, it also takes some good financial resources to build a great business, but as I always say, you have to have the idea first.

You know you're a geek when... You try to shoo a fly away from the monitor with your cursor. That just happened to me. It was scary.

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.

Live TV died in the late 1950s, electronic bulletin boards came along in the mid-1980s, meaning there was about a 25-year gap when it was difficult to put your foot in your mouth and have people all across the country know about it.

E-mail — When it absolutely, positively has to get lost at the speed of light.

First words on the first telephone - "Mr. Watson -- come here -- I want to see you."

Life would be so much easier if we only had the source code.

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.

If debugging is the process of removing bugs, then programming must be the process of putting them in.

What do people mean when they say the computer went down on them?

Technology does not run an enterprise, relationships do.

I don't want to be left behind. In fact, I want to be here before the action starts.

I believe that Silicon Valley is truly a place of excellence and the impact of this tiny community on the world is completely disproportionate to its size. We are the undisputed leaders of technological change. But with our abundance of talent and resources, we also have the opportunity to be the pioneers of social change and, ultimately, this may be our greatest contribution.

I’ve noticed lately that the paranoid fear of computers becoming intelligent and taking over the world has almost entirely disappeared from the common culture. Near as I can tell, this coincides with the release of MS-DOS.

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.

The Internet? Is that thing still around?

Technology... is a queer thing. It brings you great gifts with one hand, and it stabs you in the back with the other.

The only business that is ever threatened by improved technologies are those that need to be left behind.

Why do we want intelligent terminals when there are so many stupid users ?

Not even computers will replace committees, because committees buy computers.

That’s the thing about people who think they hate computers. What they really hate is lousy programmers.

Los Angeles County officials have asked that manufacturers, suppliers and contractors stop using the terms 'master' and 'slave' regarding computer hard drives, saying such terms are unacceptable and offensive. Additionally, the term 'e-mail' will now be called 'e-person letter', 'dumb terminals' will now be 'CPU-challenged monitors' and 'Unix' will be referred to as 'sexually dysfunctional operating system'. Obviously, 'fingering' is now banned entirely.