Technology Quotes

Every day I would walk in and feel I was working alongside geniuses and I the guy with crayons in the corner.

The pounding of the cylinders increased: ta-pocketa-pocketa-pocketa-poc keta-pocketa.

We can do things that we never could before. Stop-motion lets you build tiny little worlds, and computers make that world even more believable.

Technology…the knack of so arranging the world that we need not experience it.

The empires of the future are the empires of the mind.

For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for nature cannot be fooled.

What information consumes is rather obvious: it consumes the attention of its recipients. Hence, a wealth of information creates a poverty of attention and a need to allocate that attention efficiently among the overabundance of information sources that might consume it.

It's not their fault, but a company without designers rarely understands how to use a designer when they get one.

Thinking of the customer experience, rather than just the user experience, leads to a more complete product.

It’s A Lot Easier To Go Public Than To Be Public

But at my back from time to time I hear
The sound of horns and motors, which shall bring
Sweeney to Mrs Porter in the spring.
O the moon shone bright on Mrs Porter
And on her daughter
They wash their feet in soda water.

Science and technology multiply around us. To an increasing extent they dictate the languages in which we speak and think. Either we use those languages, or we remain mute.

Twenty years ago no one could have imagined the effects the Internet would have: entire relationships flourish, friendships prosper…there’s a vast new intimacy and accidental poetry, not to mention the weirdest porn. The entire human experience seems to unveil itself like the surface of a new planet.

People will always buy a game with great gameplay rather than great graphics.

Do what you're good at. If you're creative, partner with others to do the things you're not good at.

Unix is simple. It just takes a genius to understand its simplicity.

Real artists ship.

My advice for the decade ahead is to consider basic human needs that go back millennia. It was by serving those needs that current technologies such as the cellphone and social networks have been able to succeed.

Without dogfooding, we aren’t motivated to make our software with craftsmanship and pride.

I don't want to run a company. I'm not good at managing people. You have a problem with the guy in the next cubicle? I don't care. Shoot him or something.