"Everything should be built top-down, except the first time."

"Computers can now keep a man's every transgression recorded in a permanent memory bank, duplicating with complex programming and intricate wiring a feat his wife handles quite well without fuss or fanfare."

"There used to be this country called the Soviet Union; it's not there anymore. Our technology was better than theirs."

"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."

"There's a great desire to be computer-savvy among those 50 and older. They're really hungry for it."

"I believe that Silicon Valley is truly a place of excellence and the impact of this tiny community on the world is completely disproportionate to its size. We are the undisputed leaders of technological change. But with our abundance of…"

"Steve Jobs may have the apple, but Bill Gates has the entire orchard !"

"I need to make an okay living. The people who work for us need to. But after you make a comfortable living, how much more do you need? It's like I make a joke about nerd values, because I'm very…"

"The perfect computer has been developed. You just feed in your problems and they never come out again."

"We don’t have a traditional strategy process, planning process like you’d find in traditional technical companies. It allows Google to innovate very, very quickly, which I think is a real strength of the company."

"All programmers are playwrights and all computers are lousy actors."

"Database: the information you lose when your memory crashes."

"Prolonged contact with the computer turns mathematicians into clerks and vice versa."

"Double your drive space — delete Windows !"

"To go forward, you must backup."

"Most of you are familiar with the virtues of a programmer. There are three, of course: laziness, impatience, and hubris."

"Of course, the best way to get accurate information on Usenet is to post something wrong and wait for corrections."

"Never before in history has innovation offered promise of so much to so many in so short a time."

"First words on the first telephone - "Mr. Watson -- come here -- I want to see you.""

"Web users ultimately want to get at data quickly and easily. They don't care as much about attractive sites and pretty design."

"Software is under a constant tension. Being symbolic it is arbitrarily perfectible; but also it is arbitrarily changeable."

"The spoken word was the first technology by which man was able to let go of his environment in order to grasp it in a new way."

"Looking at the proliferation of personal web pages on the net, it looks like very soon everyone on earth will have 15 Megabytes of fame."

"It is easier to change the specification to fit the program than vice versa."

"The Internet is becoming the town square for the global village of tomorrow."

"Technology favors horrible people."

"Technology has the shelf life of a banana."

"People keep asking me what I think of it now that it's done. Hence my protest: The Web is not done!"

"The best museums and museum exhibits about science or technology give you the feeling that, hey, this is interesting, but maybe I could do something here, too."

"Some things Man was never meant to know. For everything else, there's Google."

"Ever notice how fast Windows runs ? — Neither did I."

"A lot of companies have chosen to downsize, and maybe that was the right thing for them. We chose a different path. Our belief was that if we kept putting great products in front of customers, they would continue to…"

"It has become appallingly obvious that our technology has exceeded our humanity."

"Science is not marginal. Like art, it is a universal possession of humanity, and scientific knowledge has become a vital part of our species' repertory. It comprises what we know of the material world with reasonable certainty. . . .…"

"Imagination is more important than knowledge. For knowledge is limited to all we now know and understand, while imagination embraces the entire world, and all there ever will be to know and understand."

"You can measure a programmer's perspective by noting his attitude on the continuing vitality of FORTRAN."

"There are managers so preoccupied with their e-mail messages that they never look up from their screens to see what's happening in the nondigital world."

"It is a commonplace of modern technology that problems have solutions before there is knowledge of how they are to be solved."

"Good code is its own best documentation."

"It's hard for us in our stores to be a leader in technology."

"A computer will do what you tell it to do, but that may be much different from what you had in mind."

"Optimization hinders evolution."

"Computing is not about computers any more. It is about living."

"SUPERCOMPUTER: what it sounded like before you bought it."

"Hey ! It compiles ! Ship it !"

"The danger from computers is not that they will eventually get as smart as men, but that we will meanwhile agree to meet them halfway."

"Considering the current sad state of our computer programs, software development is clearly still a black art, and cannot yet be called an engineering discipline."

"I see no progress in this industry. These clocks are no faster than the ones they made a hundred years ago."