Quotes About Technology

Man has made many machines, complex and cunning, but which of them indeed rivals the workings of his heart?

It is amazing how quickly the kids learn to drive a car, yet are unable to understand the lawn mower, snowblower and vacuum cleaner.

Software sucks because users demand it to.

Computers had their origin in military cryptography-in a sense, every computer game represents the commandeering of a military code-breaking apparatus for purposes of human expression.

Paul and I, we never thought that we would make much money out of the thing. We just loved writing software.

Our friends up north spend over five billion dollars on research and development and all they seem to do is copy Google and Apple.

I would recommend you watch the movie 'Jobs' starring Ashton Kutcher, if you don't have time to read Jobs's biography.

I wish developing great products was as easy as writing a check. If that was the case, Microsoft would have great products.

There are people who don't like capitalism, and people who don't like PCs. But there's no-one who likes the PC who doesn't like Microsoft.

We're at the point now where the challenge isn't how to communicate effectively with e-mail; it's ensuring that you spend your time on the e-mail that matters most.

If geek means you're willing to study things, and if you think science and engineering matter, I plead guilty. If your culture doesn't like geeks, you are in real trouble.

Never will a time come when the most marvelous recent invention is as marvelous as a newborn child.

I don't spend my time pontificating about high-concept things; I spend my time solving engineering and manufacturing problems.

It was not so very long ago that people thought that semiconductors were part-time orchestra leaders and microchips were very small snack foods.

Bill Gates is the pope of the personal computer industry. He decides who is going to build.

If an innovative piece of software comes along, Microsoft copies it and makes it part of Windows. This is not innovation; this is the end of innovation.

Play on the frontiers of technology. Be ahead of the tomorrows.

Microsoft is already the most powerful company on earth but you ain't seen nothing yet.

It's Microsoft versus mankind, with Microsoft having only a slight lead.

Those that believe this is merely a downturn are mad. Our industry is going to mature and as something matures, the rate of innovation does slow.

Don't become a slave to technology - manage your phone, don't let it manage you.

The engineers of the future will be poets.

I use a computer. I don't know if that qualifies me as a techie, but I'm pretty good on the computer.

In a moment, we hope to see the pole vault over the satellite.