Browser Quotes

Anyone who slaps a 'this page is best viewed with Browser X' label on a Web page appears to be yearning for the bad old days, before the Web, when you had very little chance of reading a document written on another computer, another word processor, or another network. (Tim Berners-Lee)
I just became one with my browser software. View quote
Bill Griffith
A good browser, apps, good camera, and fast networking in your smartphone is just expected today. View quote
Thorsten Heins
If you find you are not understanding my explanation for a joke, hit "F5" on your browser and the page will refresh and I will explain it again. View quote
Ryan North
The average consumer does not know the difference between browser, Internet and search box. View quote
Mitchell Baker
I thought Microsoft did a lot of things that were good and right building parts of the browser into the operating system. Then I thought it out and came up with reasons why it was a monopoly. View quote
Steve Wozniak
Any operating system without a browser is going to be fucking out of business. Should we improve our product, or go out of business? View quote
Bill Gates
The fundamental deficiency in HTML is that it reduces hypertext and the intertwinedness of human communication to a question of how it is rendered and what happens when you click on it. ... HTML is to the browser what PostScript is to the laser printer. View quote
Erik Naggum
In '93 to '94, every browser had its own flavor of HTML. So it was very difficult to know what you could put in a Web page and reliably have most of your readership see it. View quote
Tim Berners-Lee
If I were to wish for two things, they would be as much bandwidth as possible and ridiculously fast browser engines. View quote
Matt Mullenweg
Browser compatibility problems are nature's way of saying "stop trying to be so fuckin' clever." (Jamie Zawinski)
Many thought it was a fool's errand - that the browser companies were never going to listen to us. Others argued that, 'Users don't care if you use Web standards.' Well, of course they don't. They just know that your site works better. View quote
Jeffrey Zeldman
Steve Jobs was notoriously blunt about products he found wanting, but his attack on Flash - Adobe's popular technology for playing multimedia content inside a browser - was particularly vicious. Claiming it was buggy and insecure, Jobs banned it from the iPad. View quote
Evgeny Morozov
I think we're proving ourselves as we go along. The past several months our strategy has been evolutionary - making maximum advantage of our client browser, as well as our enterprise software for people who want to build Web sites. View quote
James L. Barksdale
Today, Web services is really about developing for the server. What it means to developers is any set of systems services that you make a Web service you to access by any kind of device with a highly interactive client, not just a browser. View quote
John Fowler
We found a way to make things look great to the human eye through the window of a graphical web browser without worrying about what everything looked like under the hood. View quote
Mike Davidson
Skype is easy enough to use so that people don't need to be tech savvy - a lot of users just want to communicate with their friends and family, and they find this is the easiest, cheapest way. If you can use a Web browser, you can use Skype. View quote
Niklas Zennstrom
If you can use a Web browser, you can use Skype. View quote
Niklas Zennstrom
Yes, iD is a machine vision and sensor browser for the physical world. That's what we have been working on with Coca-Cola, Verizon, Bank of America and Disney to launch content when an image is recognised. View quote
Patrick Soon-Shiong
Netscape brought the Internet alive with the browser. They made the Internet so that Grandma could use it, and her grandchildren could use it. The second thing that Netscape did was commercialize a set of open transmission protocols so that no company could own the Net. View quote
Thomas Friedman
People notice it and they help you participate and see your work included in this project and when we ship our browser, you and millions of other people get to see the fruits of your efforts. (Mitchell Baker)
What we now call the browser is whatever defines the web. What fits in the browser is the World Wide Web and a number of trivial standards to handle that so that the content comes. View quote
Ted Nelson
Once you understand that everybody's going to get connected, a lot of things follow from that. If everybody gets the Internet, they end up with a browser, so they look at web pages - but they can also leave comments, create web pages. They can even host their own server! So not only is everybody consuming, they can also produce. View quote
Marc Andreessen
The Internet browser... is the piece of software that puts a message on your computer screen informing you that the Internet is currently busy and you should try again later. View quote
Dave Barry
This is your silly web browser doing that. The file is correctly named. View quote
Rasmus Lerdorf