30+ Inspirational and Creative Tech Quotes by famous people

Technology needs inspiration and creativity. Why not then start with this list of Technology Quotes which we’ve compiled from all over the web. Some of them are inspirational, some are creative and rest are very good tech humor quotes. We’ll update the list regularly.

1. Computers are good at following instructions, but not at reading your mind – Donald Knuth
   
2. Never trust a computer you can’t throw out a window – Steve Wozniak
3. When someone says, "I want a programming language in which I need only say what I want done," give him a lollipop – Alan Perlis
   
4. The question of whether computers can think is like the question of whether submarines can swim – Edsger W. Dijkstra
   
5. It is practically impossible to teach good programming style to students that have had prior exposure to BASIC.  As potential programmers, they are mentally mutilated beyond hope of regeneration – E. W. Dijkstra
6. The cheapest, fastest and most reliable components of a computer system are those that aren’t there – Gordon Bell
   
7. The function of good software is to make the complex appear to be simple – Grady Booch
   
8. Good code is its own best documentation – Steve McConnell
   
9. The first principle is that you must not fool yourself – and you are the easiest person to fool – Richard Feynman
10. You’re bound to be unhappy if you optimize everything – Donald Knuth
    
11. First learn computer science and all the theory.  Next develop a programming style.  Then forget all that and just hack – George Carrette
    
12. Computers are useless. They can only give you answers – Pablo Picasso
    
13. UNIX is simple. It just takes a genius to understand its simplicity – Dennis Ritchie
    
14. There’s an old story about the person who wished his computer were as easy to use as his telephone.  That wish has come true, since I no longer know how to use my telephone – Bjarne Stroustrup
15. I am sometimes something of a lazy person, so when I end up spending a lot of time using something myself — as I did with Google in the earliest of days, I knew it was a big deal – Sergey Brin
16. From the time I was 7, when I purchased my first calculator, I was fascinated by the idea of a machine that could compute things – Michael Dell
17. The bulk of all patents are crap.  Spending time reading them is stupid.  It’s up to the patent owner to do so, and to enforce them – Linus Torvalds
18. Complexity kills.  It sucks the life out of developers, it makes products difficult to plan, build and test, it introduces security challenges, and it causes end-user and administrator frustration – Ray Ozzie
19. I remember turning in my first assignment in elementary school using the computer and the teachers were kind of confused that I had printed it – Larry Page
20. Computers are good at following instructions, but not at reading your mind – Donald Knuth
21. No matter how slick the demo is in rehearsal, when you do it in front of a live audience the probability of a flawless presentation is inversely proportional to the number of people watching, raised to the power of the amount of money involved – Mark Gibbs
    
22. A picture is worth a thousand words but it takes 3,000 times the disk space – Andy Rooney
    
23. Don’t explain computers to laymen.  Simpler to explain sex to a virgin – Robert A. Heinlein
24. You affect the world by what you browse – Tim Berners Lee
25. I think computer viruses should count as life. I think it says something about human nature that the only form of life we have created so far is purely destructive. We’ve created life in our own image – Stephen Hawking
26. When we set out in the kind of early Web days, we didn’t decide to do online horoscopes or invitation services, but search, which is about information, which can make a real difference in people’s lives – Sergey Brin
27. You need to set up and organize so that you can do as many experiments per unit of time as possible. If doing an experiment costs $100 million and takes three years, well, you’re not going to be able to do very much innovation – Jeff Bezos (Amazon)
28. Make everything as simple as possible, but not simpler – Albert Einstein
29. A fundamental rule in technology says that whatever can be done will be done – Andrew Grove
30. If you look at the top 20 companies of the world, 19 of them are still brick-and-mortar companies. I have nothing against tech companies. What I am saying is that if you have a car manufacturer or an oil and gas manufacturer, you won’t get the supply over the Net – Anil Ambani
    
31. Saying that Java is nice because it works on all OSes is like saying that anal sex is nice because it works on all genders – Alanna
    
32. Computer language design is just like a stroll in the park. Jurassic Park, that is – Larry Wall

We’ll keep on adding more quotes and sayings to the list. If you want to suggest any then just comment below.