Technology Quotes · Page 106

To a programmer, an operating system is defined by its API.

— Charles Petzold

I made up the term "object-oriented," and I can tell you I did not have C++ in mind.

— Alan Kay

In the tech-savvy, real-time world we all live in today, everything is faster.

— Prince

If print was invented tomorrow, it would be the death of digital.

— Vaughan Oliver

“thinking: a rather prosaic, low-tech concept, easily forgotten and routinely underrated. But”

— Margaret Heffernan

“79 percent of smartphone owners check their device within 15 minutes of waking up every morning.”

— Nir Eyal

“Innovation is hard at first, clumsy in the middle but incredible at the end.”

— Sravani Saha Nakhro

A landline is an anchor - busy signals, long distance bills, missed connections and all.

— Rainbow Rowell

Since we took to the sky, we have wanted to fly faster and farther. And to do so, we've had to believe…

— Regina E. Dugan

In this new digital landscape, this sort of international marketplace, it's come full circle, and I wanted to take advantage of my…

— Colin Callender

Digiphrenia”—the way our media and technologies encourage us to be in more than one place at the same time.

— Douglas Rushkoff

A new survey out says 64 percent of Americans own a smartphone. Which is interesting because in a related survey, 100 percent…

— Jimmy Fallon

“Dash concludes that, ultimately, the tech industry doesn’t really exist. It’s just in these organizations’ best interests to be seen as “tech.”

— Sara Wachter-Boettcher

I think that the artificial-intelligence people are making a lot of noise recently, claiming that artificial intelligence is making huge progress and…

— Freeman Dyson

None of our family businesses were focused on technology. It was '93 when I came out of law school, and the Internet…

— J. B. Pritzker

My intention was to enroll at McGill University but an unexpected series of events led me to study physics at the Massachusetts…

— Sidney Altman

I did not have a mobile phone in 1993. No one did, except the occasional banker or Hollywood star seeming smart, or…

— Elizabeth Wurtzel

As Apple continues to release new styles of netbooks, laptops, and even desktops with untold movie-watching and game-playing capabilities, I wouldn't be…

— Douglas Rushkoff

I think that is one of the main goals of pushing forward in machine learning: having computers provide the wisdom that a…

— Jeff Dean

Our current expectations for what our students should learn in school were set fifty years ago to meet the needs of an…

— Bill Gates

California has a special relationship with the Internet. Many of the core technologies that power the Internet were invented here. Many of…

— Kamala Harris

“Brummer was unique. His world was known as a haven for those who still refused to embrace technology. Like most Dragolians, he…

— Vincent Pet

Nation states that are used to imposing capital controls will face a quandary: ban cryptocurrencies and live in the technology dustbin; enable…

— Naval Ravikant

“The range function at can be used to create a list of numbers ranging from a starting number up to the number…

— Anonymous

I always work in a room where there's no Internet to keep from being distracted so easily.

— Jeffrey Eugenides

As a company itself, Apple is very easy to understand. They're really not a complex company.

— John Gruber

We have a very active testing community which people don't often think about when you have open source.

— Mitchell Baker

All of our code is open source, so it can be used for other projects.

— Miguel de Icaza

Obviously technology has become such a big presence in our lives and, I definitely know, in my life.

— Spike Jonze

Open-source code is extremely well-adapted to service-oriented architecture.

— Winston Damarillo

British innovation in design, in the creative arts, in engineering and manufacturing is world class.

— Margaret Heffernan

“Digital is the age of innovation because creativity is about connecting the dots in the wider scope.”

— Pearl Zhu

I think that Windows 8 is kind of a catastrophe for everybody in the PC space.

— Gabe Newell

“digital media are biased away from the local, and toward dislocation.”

— Douglas Rushkoff

I hardly use a computer anymore because I have everything on my phone.

— iJustine

I'm not a tech guy. I'm looking at the technology with the eyes of my customers, normal people's eyes.

— Jack Ma

Everything is going to be connected to cloud and data... All of this will be mediated by software.

— Satya Nadella

I view Linux as something that's not Microsoft - a backlash against Microsoft, no more and no less.

— Ken Thompson

We live in a media world simultaneously obsessed with technology and personality.

— Eric Alterman

3 Jobs that changed the world: Hand, Blow and Steve.

— Anonymous