"Moore's Law - The number of transistors and resistors on a chip doubles every 24 months"

"Everyone can be taught to sculpt: Michelangelo would have had to be taught not to. So it is with great programmers."

"Technology makes it possible for people to gain control over everything, except over technology."

"In all large corporations, there is a pervasive fear that someone, somewhere is having fun with a computer on company time. Networks help alleviate that fear."

"The only problem with Microsoft is they just have no taste. They have absolutely no taste. And I don’t mean that in a small way, I mean that in a big way, in the sense that they don’t think of…"

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

"And bring me a hard copy of the Internet so I can do some serious surfing."

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

"We are very much believers that the web is an open environment, and we need to make sure that people can find all kinds of different stuff through Yahoo!, and not necessarily keeping people within Yahoo!"

"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…"

"The technology at the leading edge changes so rapidly that you have to keep current after you get out of school. I think probably the most important thing is having good fundamentals."

"Interfaces keep things tidy, but don't accelerate growth: Functions do."

"Imagine a school with children that can read or write, but with teachers who cannot, and you have a metaphor of the Information Age in which we live."

"The city’s central computer told you? R2D2, you know better than to trust a strange computer!"

"A friend called me up the other day and talked about investing in a dot-com that sells lobsters. Internet lobsters. Where will this end? The next day he sent me a huge package of lobsters on ice. How low can…"

"Should array indices start at 0 or 1? My compromise of 0.5 was rejected without, I thought, proper consideration."

"The medium is the message. This is merely to say that the personal and social consequences of any medium / that is, of any extension of ourselves / result from the new scale that is introduced into our affairs by…"

"Paper is no longer a big part of my day. I get 90% of my news online, and when I go to a meeting and want to jot things down, I bring my Tablet PC. It's fully synchronized with my…"

"The Internet is so big, so powerful and pointless that for some people it is a complete substitute for life."

"Today's meters are little computers."

"A program is a spell cast over a computer, turning input into error messages."

"It was a pivotal moment in the history of computers and the history of advertising."

"A program without a loop and a structured variable isn't worth writing."

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

"But they are useless. They can only give you answers."

"A computer is like an Old Testament god, with a lot of rules and no mercy."

"Programmers are tools for converting caffeine into code."

"It is extremely unlikely that anyone coming out of school with a technical degree will go into one area and stay there. Today's students have to look forward to the excitement of probably having three or four careers."

"The bulk of all patents are crap. Spending time reading them is stupid. It’s up to the patent owner to do so, and to enforce them."

"After growing wildly for years, the field of computing appears to be reaching its infancy."

"The technologies which have had the most profound effects on human life are usually simple."

"We always overestimate the change that will occur in the next two years and underestimate the change that will occur in the next ten. Don't let yourself be lulled into inaction."

"Computers are like air conditioners: they stop working when you open windows."

"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 you’re young, you look at television and think, there’s a conspiracy. The networks have conspired to dumb us down. But when you get a little older, you realize that’s not true. The networks are in business to give people…"

"It's not that we use technology, we live technology."

"If computers get too powerful, we can organize them into committees. That'll do them in."

"The best way to prepare [to be a programmer] is to write programs, and to study great programs that other people have written. In my case, I went to the garbage cans at the Computer Science Center and fished out…"

"Our biggest demographic is the intelligent professional. They've got a computer on their desk, they've got a web browser and they check us out. We are many people's morning cup of coffee."

"Inside every small program is a large program struggling to get out."

"Software is like sex: It’s better when it’s free."

"We will create a civilization of the Mind in Cyberspace. May it be more humane and fair than the world your governments have made before."

"A hacker on a roll may be able to produce–in a period of a few months–something that a small development group (say, 7-8 people) would have a hard time getting together over a year. IBM used to report that…"

"Silos can't interoperate unless the technology does."

"Any code of your own that you haven’t looked at for six or more months might as well have been written by someone else."

"Technological progress has merely provided us with more efficient means for going backwards."

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