"Computers are like Old Testament gods; lots of rules and no mercy."

"The string is a stark data structure and everywhere it is passed there is much duplication of process. It is a perfect vehicle for hiding information."

"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…"

"There is some confusion because we only recently began our marketing. We're in an era were people need to think about business processes and applications horizontally...We need to think of the enterprise not as an island of stand-alone technology."

"The future masters of technology will have to be light-hearted and intelligent. The machine easily masters the grim and the dumb."

"Program complexity grows until it exceeds the capabilities of the programmer who must maintain it."

"The Web is like a dominatrix. Everywhere I turn, I see little buttons ordering me to Submit."

"C++ : Where friends have access to your private members."

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

"Do you realize if it weren't for Edison we'd be watching TV by candlelight?"

"If you automate a mess, you get an automated mess."

"640K ought to be enough for anybody."

"Considering the flames and intolerance, shouldn't USENET be spelled ABUSENET?"

"We've heard that a million monkeys at a keyboard could produce the Complete Works of Shakespeare; now, thanks to the Internet, we know this is not true."

"For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for Nature cannot be fooled."

"Computers are magnificent tools for the realization of our dreams, but no machine can replace the human spark of spirit, compassion, love, and understanding."

"Making something variable is easy. Controlling duration of constancy is the trick."

"What boots up must come down."

"WinNT: All the headaches of Unix, but in a pretty, windowed environment."

"There are only two kinds of programming languages: those people always bitch about and those nobody uses."

"Dating a girl is just like writing software. Everything's going to work just fine in the testing lab (dating), but as soon as you have contract with a customer (marriage), then your program (life) is going to be facing new…"

"The computer programmer is a creator of universes for which he alone is responsible. Universes of virtually unlimited complexity can be created in the form of computer programs."

"The factory of the future will have only two employees, a man and a dog. The man will be there to feed the dog. The dog will be there to keep the man from touching the equipment."

"Technology is a way of organizing the universe so that man doesn't have to experience it."

"We have the mini and the micro computer. In what semantic niche would the pico computer fall?"

"Adapting old programs to fit new machines usually means adapting new machines to behave like old ones."

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

"Saying your OS is the best in the world 'cause more people use it is like saying McDonalds makes the best food in the world."

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

"Renewable energy is proven technology, the price is dropping, the rest of the world is going that way, that's where our investment should be going as well."

"If Gore invented the Internet, I invented spell-check."

"We are always saying to ourself.. we have to innovate. We got to come up with that breakthrough. In fact, the way software works.. so long as you are using your existing software.. you don't pay us anything at all.…"

"Technology is just a tool. In terms of getting the kids working together and motivating them, the teacher is the most important."

"Don’t worry if it doesn’t work right. If everything did, you’d be out of a job."

"The great thing about Object Oriented code is that it can make small, simple problems look like large, complex ones."

"If you don't double-click me, I can't do anything."

"There's no set architecture in Linux. All roads lead to madness."

"You can define advertising as the science of creating and placing media that interrupts the consumer and then gets him or her to take some action."

"It would take a lot of time and effort (to repair the computers). And they can't run (programs and games) kids are interested in today. They're not even on the Internet. We wouldn't be offering them much of a carrot."

"There's a whole kind of hip element to it -- now I need this. Right smack in the middle of the 21st century, sophistication is marrying itself to a very old-fashioned notion of a table where you play games, long…"

"Overall, OS/2's problems fall into two categories: IBM and Microsoft."

"People say Microsoft paid $14M for using the Rolling Stones song 'Start me up' in their commercials. This is wrong. Microsoft payed $14M only for a part of the song. For instance, they didn't use the line 'You'll make a…"

"If the human race wants to go to hell in a basket, technology can help it get there by jet."

"I'm struck by the insidious, computer-driven tendency to take things out of the domain of muscular activity and put them into the domain of mental activity."

"They're growing at three to four times the personal computer market."

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

"Competition is always a fantastic thing, and the computer industry is intensely competitive. Whether it's Google or Apple or free software, we've got some fantastic competitors and it keeps us on our toes."

"Kids today have so many advantages I never had. There's no telling what I could've accomplished with a home computer and a handgun."