Technology Quotes

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.

Technology presumes there's just one right way to do things and there never is.

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

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.

The Internet? Is that thing still around?

Everyone has a right to a university degree in America, even if it's in Hamburger Technology.

What boots up must come down.

We shouldn't build a technology to colour, or grey out, what people say. The media in general is balanced, although there are a lot of issues to be addressed that the media rightly pick up on.

Crap... Someone knocked over my recycle bin... There's icons all over my desktop...

COBOL programmers understand why women hate periods.

There's a lot of Google fascination out there and we share it, and we're going to compete, we're going to compete very, very hard.

The Web is like a dominatrix. Everywhere I turn, I see little buttons ordering me to Submit.

Worth noting: running 'reboot -h' does NOT produce a helpful usage message.

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

We are always saying to ourself.. we have to innovate. We got to come up with that breakthrough. In fact, the way software works.. so long as you are using your existing software.. you don't pay us anything at all. So we're only paid for breakthroughs.

It is a tremendous responsibility for us to have all the eyes focused on what we do and give people exactly what they need when they ask for it.

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

eBay's business is based on enabling someone to do business with another person, and to do that, they first have to develop some measure of trust, either in the other person or the system.

In computing, invariants are ephemeral.

Wherever there is modularity there is the potential for misunderstanding: Hiding information implies a need to check communication.

C++ : Where friends have access to your private members.

The first 90% of the code accounts for the first 90% of the development time. The remaining 10% of the code accounts for the other 90% of the development time.

I had a fortune cookie the other day and it said: 'Outlook not so good'. I said: 'Sure, but Microsoft ships it anyway'.

The US Nuclear Security Administration runs the Blue Gene supercomputer. It is supposed to be the top super computer in the world ? and it runs on GNU Linux. Of the top 10 super computers in the world, seven run on GNU Linux. From a security point of view, there is a case to be made.

The danger from computers is not that they will eventually get as smart as men, but that we will meanwhile agree to meet them halfway.