Technology Quotes

Treat your password like your toothbrush. Don't let anybody else use it, and get a new one every six months.

Never trust a computer you can’t throw out a window.

Should array indices start at 0 or 1? My compromise of 0.5 was rejected without, I thought, proper consideration.

David and I and the rest of the Yahoos here really believe that the internet should remain as free as possible. At the same time we are a business and have fiscal responsibilities.

Technology does not run an enterprise, relationships do.

If GM had kept up with technology like the computer industry has, we would all be driving $25 cars that got 1000 MPG.

The best museums and museum exhibits about science or technology give you the feeling that, hey, this is interesting, but maybe I could do something here, too.

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

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

My computer must be broken: whenever I ask a wrong question, it gives a wrong answer.

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

There is so much media now with the Internet and people, and so easy and so cheap to start a newspaper or start a magazine, there’s just millions of voices and people want to be heard.

We will never become a truly paper-less society until the Palm Pilot folks come out with WipeMe 1.0.

I'm not anti-social; I'm just not user friendly.

Undetectable errors are infinite in variety, in contrast to detectable errors, which by definition are limited.

I have an almost religious zeal.. not for technology per se, but for the Internet which is for me, the nervous system of mother Earth, which I see as a living creature, linking up.

Paper is no longer a big part of my day. I get 90% of my news online, and when I go to a meeting and want to jot things down, I bring my Tablet PC. It's fully synchronized with my office machine so I have all the files I need.

There was a time when nails were high-tech. There was a time when people had to be told how to use a telephone. Technology is just a tool. People use tools to improve their lives.

We are now able to see things in nature of what was previously only available in computer simulation.

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

The newest computer can merely compound, at speed, the oldest problem in the relations between human beings, and in the end the communicator will be confronted with the old problem, of what to say and how to say it.

Most software today is very much like an Egyptian pyramid with millions of bricks piled on top of each other, with no structural integrity, but just done by brute force and thousands of slaves.

The most exciting breakthroughs of the 21st century will not occur because of technology but because of an expanding concept of what it means to be human.

In all large corporations, there is a pervasive fear that someone, somewhere is having fun with a computer on company time. Networks help alleviate that fear.

Any teacher that can be replaced by a computer, deserves to be.