Quotes About Technology

Right at the start, when I was about 13 or 14, I only had an Amiga 500 Plus running a bit of tracker software called OctaMED. My brother was big into his computers, and when he moved up to a proper PC, I took charge of the Amiga.

At Microsoft, the magic of software is used to take on very interesting challenges.

I think India has several advantages in the knowledge sector, in the software sector.

You get the software you pay for. In every sense. To the nth degree. That's the way the world works.

Then people started using it more and more and it became the most downloaded software on the internet.

Any good software engineer will tell you that a compiler and an interpreter are interchangeable.

Companies in every industry need to assume that a software revolution is coming.

In the early days of the software industry, people cared about copyright and didn't give a damn about patents - they copied each other willy-nilly.

From day one our next generation system will run all our exsisting software - so that gives us a head start.

While the creative works from the 16th century can still be accessed and used by others, the data in some software programs from the 1990s is already inaccessible.

One of the problems with computers, particularly for the older people, is they were befuddled by them, and the computers have gotten better. They have gotten easier to use. They have gotten less expensive. The software interfaces have made things a lot more accessible.

People enjoy the interaction on the Internet, and the feeling of belonging to a group that does something interesting: that's how some software projects are born.

The days when you needed amazing Silicon Graphics machines to run animation software are gone now.

The days when a car aficionado could repair his or her own car are long past, due primarily to the high software content.

The future art historians are going to be software guys who are going to go into the depths of the code to find out what was changed hundreds of years before.

If you want to do interesting software, you have to have a bunch of people do it, because the amount of software that one person can do isn't that interesting.

By being able to write a genome and plug it into an organism, the software, if you will, changes the hardware.

Pop belonged to more musical people in earlier times, but we've sort of gotten away from that. Now it's software people. I kind of feel like reclaiming it is in order.

A minimum precaution: keep your anti-malware protections up to date, and install security updates for all your software as soon as they arrive.

It's hard to propose a $100 laptop for a world community of kids and then not say in the same breath that you're going to depend on the community to make software for it.

My ma is an economist. My dad is a software engineer.

Technology no longer consists just of hardware or software or even services, but of communities. Increasingly, community is a part of technology, a driver of technology, and an emergent effect of technology.

Everything seems set up for success in digital journalism - money, eyeballs, software, brands.

Most computers today have built in backup software.