Technology Quotes

Champagne, if you are seeking the truth, is better than a lie detector. It encourages a man to be expansive, even reckless, while lie detectors are only a challenge to tell lies successfully.

I think there are going to be a bunch of tablet-like devices. It's really a different product category.

Making duplicate copies and computer printouts of things no one wanted even one of in the first place is giving America a new sense of purpose.

Do you realize if it weren't for Edison we'd be watching TV by candlelight?

Our technological powers increase, but the side effects and potential hazards also escalate.

The 'Net is a waste of time, and that's exactly what's right about it.

The original idea of the web was that it should be a collaborative space where you can communicate through sharing information.

What's sort of interesting about the whole public relations disaster that is the Net, in some ways, is that the fundamentals are really good.

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

Cyberspace can't compensate for real space. We benefit from chatting to people face to face.

Mechanization best serves mediocrity.

The Internet treats censorship as a malfunction and routes around it.

Doing linear scans over an associative array is like trying to club someone to death with a loaded Uzi.

YouTube is akin to having my own network.

A satellite has no conscience.

Microsoft is engaging in unlawful predatory practices that go well beyond the scope of fair competition.

I think it is inevitable that people program poorly. Training will not substantially help matters. We have to learn to live with it.

To bring out a new technology for consumers first, you just had a very long road to go down to try to find people who actually would pay money for something.

I think complexity is mostly sort of crummy stuff that is there because it's too expensive to change the interface.

I want people to use Perl. I want to be a positive ingredient of the world and make my American history. So, whatever it takes to give away my software and get it used, that's great.