Top 100 Technology Quotes (2024 Update)

1. “We’re changing the world with technology.”

— Bill Gates

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2. “Technology alone is not enough.”

— Steve Jobs

3. “Don’t become a slave to technology – manage your phone, don’t let it manage you.”

— Richard Branson

4. “Everybody in this country should learn how to program a computer, because it teaches you how to think.”

— Steve Jobs

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5. “The best way to create value in the 21st century is to connect Creativity with Technology.”

— Steve Jobs

6. “Every once in a while a revolutionary product comes along that changes everything. It’s very fortunate if you can work on just one of these in your career. Apple’s been very fortunate in that it’s introduced a few of these.”

— Steve Jobs

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7. “I started Linux as a desktop operating system. And it’s the only area where Linux hasn’t completely taken over. That just annoys the hell out of me.”

— Linus Torvalds

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8. “Virtual Reality is really a new communication platform. By feeling truly present, you can share unbounded spaces and experiences with the people in your life. Imagine sharing not just moments with your friends online, but entire experiences and adventures.”

— Mark Zuckerberg

9. “We are not even close to finishing the basic dream of what the PC can be.”

— Bill Gates

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10. “Innovation is the only way to win.”

— Steve Jobs

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11. “Move fast and break things. Unless you are breaking stuff, you are not moving fast enough.”

— Mark Zuckerberg

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12. “I think the high-tech industry is used to developing new things very quickly. It’s the Silicon Valley way of doing business: You either move very quickly and you work hard to improve your product technology, or you get destroyed by some other company.”

— Elon Musk

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13. “Any product that needs a manual to work is broken.”

— Elon Musk

14. “Start small, think big. Don’t worry about too many things at once. Take a handful of simple things to begin with, and then progress to more complex ones. Think about not just tomorrow, but the future. Put a ding in the universe.”

— Steve Jobs

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15. “I think it’s very important to have a feedback loop, where you’re constantly thinking about what you’ve done and how you could be doing it better.”

— Elon Musk

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16. “Most good programmers do programming not because they expect to get paid or get adulation by the public, but because it is fun to program.”

— Linus Torvalds

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17. “Any fool can write code that a computer can understand. Good programmers write code that humans can understand.”

— Martin Fowler

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18. “My motivation for all my companies has been to be involved in something that I thought would have a significant impact on the world.”

— Elon Musk

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19. “Make it work, make it right, make it fast.”

— Kent Beck

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20. “If you think your users are idiots, only idiots will use it.”

— Linus Torvalds

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21. “I want to make rockets 100 times, if not 1,000 times better. The ultimate objective is to make humanity a multiplanet species. Thirty years from now, there’ll be a base on the moon and on Mars, and people will be going back and forth on SpaceX rockets.”

— Elon Musk

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22. “We’re here to make a dent in the universe. Otherwise, why even be here? We’re creating a completely new consciousness, like an artist or a poet. That’s how you have to think of this. We’re rewriting the history of human thought with what we’re doing.”

— Steve Jobs

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23. “If you think technology can solve your security problems, then you don’t understand the problems and you don’t understand the technology.”

— Bruce Schneier

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24. “I never did anything worth doing by accident, nor did any of my inventions come by accident; they came by work.”

— Thomas A. Edison

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25. “We’ve gone through the operating system and looked at everything and asked how can we simplify this and make it more powerful at the same time.”

— Steve Jobs

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26. “The desire that guides me in all I do is the desire to harness the forces of nature to the service of mankind.”

— Nikola Tesla

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27. “It seems probable that once the machine thinking method had started, it would not take long to outstrip our feeble powers. They would be able to converse with each other to sharpen their wits. At some stage therefore, we should have to expect the machines to take control.”

— Alan Turing

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28. “If you think back to the beginning of cell phones, laptops or really any new technology, it’s always expensive.”

— Elon Musk

29. “My number one piece of advice is: you should learn how to program.”

— Mark Zuckerberg

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30. “I think Tesla will most likely develop its own autopilot system for the car, as I think it should be camera-based, not Lidar-based. However, it is also possible that we do something jointly with Google.”

— Elon Musk

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31. “Given enough eyeballs, all bugs are shallow.”

— Linus Torvalds

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32. “Investing in tomorrow’s technology today is more critical than ever...”

— Bill Gates

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33. “I do not think there is any thrill that can go through the human heart like that felt by the inventor as he sees some creation of the brain unfolding to success. Such emotions make a man forget food, sleep, friends, love, everything.”

— Nikola Tesla

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34. “There are lots of Linux users who don’t care how the kernel works, but only want to use it. That is a tribute to how good Linux is.”

— Linus Torvalds

35. “Debugging is twice as hard as writing the code in the first place. Therefore, if you write the code as cleverly as possible, you are, by definition, not smart enough to debug it.”

— Brian Kernighan

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36. “The nature of Bitcoin is such that once version 0.1 was released, the core design was set in stone for the rest of its lifetime.”

— Satoshi Nakamoto

37. “I think, fundamentally, open source does tend to be more stable software. It’s the right way to do things.”

— Linus Torvalds

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38. “I’ve been working on a new electronic cash system that’s fully peer-to-peer, with no trusted third party.”

— Satoshi Nakamoto

39. “I do not fear computers. I fear the lack of them.”

— Isaac Asimov

40. “The first rule of any technology used in a business is that automation applied to an efficient operation will magnify the efficiency. The second is that automation applied to an inefficient operation will magnify the inefficiency.”

— Bill Gates

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41. “I believe that at the end of the century the use of words and general educated opinion will have altered so much that one will be able to speak of machines thinking without expecting to be contradicted.”

— Alan Turing

42. “Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.”

— Arthur C. Clarke

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43. “I will, in fact, claim that the difference between a bad programmer and a good one is whether he considers his code or his data structures more important. Bad programmers worry about the code. Good programmers worry about data structures and their relationships.”

— Linus Torvalds

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44. “Microsoft was founded with a vision of a computer on every desk, and in every home. We’ve never wavered from that vision.”

— Bill Gates

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45. “We become what we behold. We shape our tools and then our tools shape us.”

— Marshall McLuhan

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46. “I’m interested in Linux because of the technology, and Linux wasn’t started as any kind of rebellion against the ‘evil Microsoft empire.’”

— Linus Torvalds

47. “Data is a precious thing and will last longer than the systems themselves.”

— Tim Berners-Lee

48. “I’ve developed a new open source P2P e-cash system called Bitcoin. It’s completely decentralized, with no central server or trusted parties, because everything is based on crypto proof instead of trust.”

— Satoshi Nakamoto

49. “In open source, we feel strongly that to really do something well, you have to get a lot of people involved.”

— Linus Torvalds

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50. “The only constant in the technology industry is change.”

— Marc Benioff