"Humanity is acquiring all the right technology for all the wrong reasons."

"Wherever there is modularity there is the potential for misunderstanding: Hiding information implies a need to check communication."

"If we had a reliable way to label our toys good and bad, it would be easy to regulate technology wisely. But we can rarely see far enough ahead to know which road leads to damnation. Whoever concerns himself with…"

"Daddy, what does FORMATTING DRIVE C mean?"

"Saying that most of the computer was filled with personal images is simply not accurate."

"Computation has made the tree flower."

"The debate rages on: is PL/I Bachtrian or Dromedary?"

"Today's meters are little computers."

"Well Microsoft really does develop some really interesting technology."

"Back up my hard drive? How do I put it in reverse?"

"We hope that the Internet becomes even more affordable and more ubiquitous over time, and our mission at Yahoo! is to continue to keep our services available AND useful on all these platforms."

"It is the framework which changes with each new technology and not just the picture within the frame."

"As technology advances, it reverses the characteristics of every situation again and again. The age of automation is going to be the age of "do it yourself"."

"Results eventually reach a point at which a finer mesh no longer yields an appreciable difference. This type of convergence study helps generate accurate solutions with meshes that are sufficiently dense and yet not overly demanding of computer resources."

"There is so much media now with the Internet and people, and so easy and so cheap to start a newspaper or start a magazine, there’s just millions of voices and people want to be heard."

"I would love to change the world, but they won't give me the source code."

"Vista is the the George W Bush of the technology industry."

"Motto for a research laboratory: What we work on today, others will first think of tomorrow."

"I get mail, therefore I am."

"Computers will never replace good old-fashioned human stupidity."

"To better understand why you need a personal computer, let's take a look at the pathetic mess you call your life."

"One can only display complex information in the mind. Like seeing, movement or flow or alteration of view is more important than the static picture, no matter how lovely."

"PHP is a minor evil perpetrated and created by incompetent amateurs, whereas Perl is a great and insidious evil perpetrated by skilled but perverted professionals."

"When someone says "I want a programming language in which I need only say what I wish done," give him a lollipop."

"Beware of computer programmers that carry screwdrivers."

"They've grown up with the computer, so they expect things to be faster, including cooking. They like baking by adding things to a mix. In recipes, they want fewer ingredients -- seven is ideal -- and they like step-by-step pictures…"

"It was never clear that it wouldn't just stop (the WWW). Any time during that exponential growth, it could have stalled. I think we were never very confident until 1993."

"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."

"We know by now that if we make technology the predestined force in our lives, man will walk to the measure of its demands. We know how leveling that influence can be, how easy it is to computerize man and…"

"WWW? Nice toy, but what a waste of time."

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

"Things should be made as simple as possible, but not any simpler."

"My favorite thing about the Internet is that you get to go into the private world of real creeps without having to smell them."

"If you can't make it good, at least make it look good."

"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 innovation is starting to explode and having open-source material out there really helps this explosion. You get students and researchers involved and you get people coming through and building start ups based on open source products."

"Optimism is an occupational hazard of programming; feedback is the treatment."

"Always code as if the guy who ends up maintaining your code will be a violent psychopath who knows where you live."

"I used to think that cyberspace was fifty years away. What I thought was fifty years away, was only ten years away. And what I thought was ten years away... it was already here. I just wasn't aware of it…"

"You can’t have great software without a great team, and most software teams behave like dysfunctional families."

"Technological progress is like an axe in the hands of a pathological criminal."

"There's a lot that can be done for people who are using technology in a better way."

"Re graphics: A picture is worth 10K words - but only those to describe the picture. Hardly any sets of 10K words can be adequately described with pictures."

"Around computers it is difficult to find the correct unit of time to measure progress. Some cathedrals took a century to complete. Can you imagine the grandeur and scope of a program that would take as long?"

"In June 1994, while it is still our hobby, we renamed it "yahoo" to stand for "yet another hierarchical officious oracle"."

"If computers get too powerful, we can organize them into a committee. That will do them in."

"When we first started, we would message all the time, ... He would log on, and mostly we would just message back and forth at the beginning of the relationship. Now, we use the computer, phones, letters, airlines - everything."

"Western society has accepted as unquestionable a technological imperative that is quite as arbitrary as the most primitive taboo: not merely the duty to foster invention and constantly to create technological novelties, but equally the duty to surrender to…"