Technology Quotes

Software is like sex: It’s better when it’s free.

Microsoft: "You've got questions. We've got dancing paperclips."

Education makes machines which act like men and produces men who act like machines.

Computer Science is embarrassed by the computer.

If google made $1 everytime someone used them to find an answer to a tech support question, they would own microsoft.

We're responsible for the creation of the PC industry. The whole idea of compatible machines and lots of software.. that's something we brought to computing. And so it's a responsibility for us to make sure that things like security don't get in the way of that dream.

The Internet: where men are men, women are men, and children are FBI agents.

What does it say about our culture that personality is now considered a technology, a tool of the trade, not only in politics but in business and the professions? Has everyone been forced to become an actor? In sixteenth century England, actors were.

Bill Gates is so rich because he got his wish when he said: 'I wish I had a nickel for every time a PC reboots'.

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.

Some say Google is God. Others say Google is Satan. But if they think Google is too powerful, remember that with search engines unlike other companies, all it takes is a single click to go to another search engine.

The only truly secure computer is one buried in concrete, with the power turned off and the network cable cut.

Windows 95: It's like upgrading from Reagan to Bush.

Is it possible that software is not like anything else, that it is meant to be discarded: that the whole point is to see it as a soap bubble?

We have yet to see the full impact of the open, global marketplace. By 1997 all raw materials and technology will be available everywhere in the world. The only differences between countries and markets will be skill levels, education, and the level of empowerment of the workplace.

Whereas knights of old wore armor of plate, the modern knights of the air wear the invisible but magic armor of confidence in technology.

The string is a stark data structure and everywhere it is passed there is much duplication of process. It is a perfect vehicle for hiding information.

Hey ! It compiles ! Ship it !

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

It is practically impossible to teach good programming style to students that have had prior exposure to BASIC. As potential programmers, they are mentally mutilated beyond hope of regeneration.

A good system can't have a weak command language.

The probability of a flawless demo is inversely proportional to the number of people watching, raised to the power of the amount of money involved.

Complexity kills. It sucks the life out of developers, it makes products difficult to plan, build and test, it introduces security challenges, and it causes end-user and administrator frustration.

There are broken toilets left there, old computers and miscellaneous garbage. They are totally unsupervised. The recycling company is good, but when people want to dump trash, they dump trash.

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