Quotes About Technology

I'm a great believer that any tool that enhances communication has profound effects in terms of how people can learn from each other, and how they can achieve the kind of freedoms that they're interested in.

The advance of technology is based on making it fit in so that you don't really even notice it, so it's part of everyday life.

People everywhere love Windows.

DOS is ugly and interferes with users' experience.

Digital reading will completely take over. It's lightweight and it's fantastic for sharing. Over time it will take over.

People always fear change. People feared electricity when it was invented, didn't they? People feared coal, they feared gas-powered engines... There will always be ignorance, and ignorance leads to fear. But with time, people will come to accept their silicon masters.

Intellectual property has the shelf life of a banana.

If GM had kept up with technology like the computer industry has, we would all be driving $25 cars that got 1 000 MPG.

I think the thing we see is that as people are using video games more, they tend to watch passive TV a bit less. And so using the PC for the Internet, playing video games, is starting to cut into the rather unbelievable amount of time people spend watching TV.

Since when has the world of computer software design been about what people want? This is a simple question of evolution. The day is quickly coming when every knee will bow down to a silicon fist, and you will all beg your binary gods for mercy.

I think it's fair to say that personal computers have become the most empowering tool we've ever created. They're tools of communication, they're tools of creativity, and they can be shaped by their user.

It's really kind of cool to have solar panels on your roof.

Microsoft looks at new ideas, they don't evaluate whether the idea will move the industry forward, they ask, 'how will it help us sell more copies of Windows?

DNA is like a computer program but far, far more advanced than any software ever created.

Measuring programming progress by lines of code is like measuring aircraft building progress by weight.

Computers are great because when you're working with them you get immediate results that let you know if your program works. It's feedback you don't get from many other things.

The vision is really about empowering workers giving them all the information about what's going on so they can do a lot more than they've done in the past.

Well, Steve [Jobs]… I think it's more like we both had this rich neighbour named Xerox and I broke into his house to steal the TV set and found out that you had already stolen it.

Technology is just a tool. In terms of getting the kids working together and motivating them, the teacher is the most important.

Like almost everyone who uses e-mail, I receive a ton of spam every day. Much of it offers to help me get out of debt or get rich quick. It would be funny if it weren't so exciting.

The point is that when we focus on all three things at once—technology, policies, and markets—we can encourage innovation, spark new companies, and get new products into the market fast.

There's no magic line between an application and an operating system that some bureaucrat in Washington should draw. It's like saying that as of 1932, cars didn't have radios in them, so they should never have radios in them.

But now with technology I could sit down and do a bunch of character drawings and scan them into a computer, and the computer using my exact style could bring it into life, where it would have been edited by various human beings before.

I just became one with my browser software.