Technology Quotes

"The best way to predict the future is to invent it."

Alan Kay

"Technology is the campfire around which we tell our stories."

Laurie Anderson

"Simple things should be simple, complex things should be possible."

Alan Kay

"The technology you use impresses no one. The experience you create with it is everything."

Sean Gerety

"It's not that we use technology, we live technology."

Godfrey Reggio

"This is the whole point of technology. It creates an appetite for immortality on the one hand. It threatens universal extinction on the other."

Don DeLillo

"The art challenges the technology, and the technology inspires the art."

John Lasseter

"Every once in a while, a new technology, an old problem, and a big idea turn into an innovation."

Dean Kamen

"Innovation is the outcome of a habit, not a random act."

Sukant Ratnakar

"People don't know what they want until you show it to them."

Steve Jobs

"Your most unhappy customers are your greatest source of learning."

Bill Gates

"Real artists ship."

Steve Jobs

"We always overestimate the change that will occur in the next two years and underestimate the change that will occur in the next ten."

Bill Gates

"We are stubborn on vision. We are flexible on details."

Jeff Bezos

"If you double the number of experiments you do per year you're going to double your inventiveness."

Jeff Bezos

"Making the simple complicated is commonplace; making the complicated simple, awesomely simple, that's creativity."

Charles Mingus

"Good design is as little design as possible."

Dieter Rams

"Users do not care about what is inside the box, as long as the box does what they need done."

Jef Raskin

"The most profound technologies are those that disappear. They weave themselves into the fabric of everyday life until they are indistinguishable from it."

Mark Weiser

"A computer lets you make more mistakes faster than any invention in human history – with the possible exceptions of handguns and tequila."

Mitch Ratcliffe

"Hardware: the parts of a computer system that can be kicked."

Jeff Pesis

"Walking on water and developing software from a specification are easy if both are frozen."

Edward V. Berard

"Software and cathedrals are much the same – first we build them, then we pray."

Sam Redwine

"Given enough eyeballs, all bugs are shallow."

Eric S. Raymond

"The function of good software is to make the complex appear to be simple."

Grady Booch