Evan Thomas Quotes

This is a software-powered world.

For instance, in 1999, Bill Gates not only published a new book on work at the speed of thought but also detailed how Microsoft's 'Falconview' software would enable the destruction of bridges in Kosovo.

I am a programmer.

Curtailment of expense could be effected only on the principle that as the government did nothing well, it might as well do nothing.

If you put government in charge of a desert, soon there will be a shortage of sand.

When Paul Allen and I started Microsoft over 30 years ago, we had big dreams about software. We had dreams about the impact it could have.

The programmers of tomorrow are the wizards of the future.

For a long time it puzzled me how something so expensive, so leading edge, could be so useless. And then it occurred to me that a computer is a stupid machine with the ability to do incredibly smart things, while computer programmers are smart people with the ability to do incredibly stupid things. They are, in short, a perfect match.

For those who wish to stay and work in computer science or technology, fields badly in need of their services, let’s roll out the welcome mat.

Computer science is the operating system for all innovation.

Government! Three fourths parasitic and the other fourth Stupid fumbling.

Technology and computers are very much at the core of our economy going forward. To be prepared for the demands of the 21st century-and to take advantage of its opportunities-it is essential that more of our students today learn basic computer programming skills, no matter what field of work they want to pursue.

Anything that the private sector can do, the government can do it worse.

It's hard not to get down on the government when you see dysfunction play out on our TVs every day. Frankly, sometimes at every level of government.

It is a popular delusion that the government wastes vast amounts of money through inefficiency and sloth. Enormous effort and elaborate planning are required to waste this much money.

Not only is UNIX dead, it's starting to smell really bad.

I am rarely happier than when spending an entire day programming my computer.

I say thank God for government waste. If government is doing bad things, it's only the waste that prevents the harm from being greater.

Building Oracle is like doing math puzzles as a kid.

It is easier to drive a stake through the heart of a blood-sucking vampire than to kill off a money-sucking and useless government program.

Government sponsors untold waste, criminality and inequality in every sphere of life it touches, giving little or nothing in return.

We ought to be keeping in mind that the technology is not just hardware and machinery, it is also software. So you can think of languages of the technology and writing of the technology and the social justice of the technology in what social justice does is reduce impacts on the Earth because the most impact is from the poorest and richest people.

Computer science needs to be part of the core curriculum - like algebra, biology, physics, or chemistry. We need all schools to teach it, not just 10%.

We buy products for our military and they come in at costs that are so far above what they were supposed to be, because we don't have people that know what they're doing.

I like the computer! It's a gadget, and I love gadgets. But it's very complicated and I didn't think I'd have the time to learn.