"Technology is a gift of God. After the gift of life it is perhaps the greatest of God's gifts. It is the mother of civilizations, of arts and of sciences."

"The most important computer is the one that rages in our skulls and ever seeks that satisfactory external emulator. The standarization of real computers would be a disaster - and so it probably won't happen."

"A thunderstorm is God's way of saying you spend too much time in front of the computer."

"You can either have software quality or you can have pointer arithmetic, but you cannot have both at the same time."

"I had a fortune cookie the other day and it said: 'Outlook not so good'. I said: 'Sure, but Microsoft ships it anyway'."

"Los Angeles County officials have asked that manufacturers, suppliers and contractors stop using the terms 'master' and 'slave' regarding computer hard drives, saying such terms are unacceptable and offensive. Additionally, the term 'e-mail' will now be called 'e-person letter', 'dumb…"

"The system of nature, of which man is a part, tends to be self-balancing, self-adjusting, self-cleansing. Not so with technology."

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

"There is no programming language–no matter how structured–that will prevent programmers from making bad programs."

"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 think that it's always possible to have a great company if you have great ideas. I will say that since the web has become more commercialized, it also takes some good financial resources to build a great business, but…"

"The greatest danger in modern technology isn't that machines will begin to think like people, but that people will begin to think like machines."

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

"Computers make it easier to do a lot of things, but most of the things they make it easier to do don't need to be done."

"Computers are useless. They can only give you answers."

"This is not a phone business. This is the smallest video camera, it's the smallest computer, smallest TV."

"If at first you don't succeed; call it version 1.0."

"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."

"Life would be so much easier if we only had the source code."

"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…"

"The Linux philosophy is "Laugh in the face of danger". Oops. Wrong One. "Do it yourself". Yes, that's it."

"The science of today is the technology of tomorrow."

"E-mail — When it absolutely, positively has to get lost at the speed of light."

"There are two ways to write error-free programs; only the third one works."

"It is practically impossible to teach good programming style to students that have had prior exposure to BASIC. As potential programmers, they are mentally mutilated beyond hope of regeneration."

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

"Windows is just DOS in drag."

"To create a new standard it takes something that's not just a little bit different. It takes something that's really new and really captures people's imagination. And the Macintosh, of all the machines I've ever seen, is the only one…"

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

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

"Programming is like sex: one mistake and you’re providing support for a lifetime."

"Get into a rut early: Do the same process the same way. Accumulate idioms. Standardize. The only difference(!) between Shakespeare and you was the size of his idiom list - not the size of his vocabulary."

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

"There never was a chip, it is said, that Bill Gates couldn't slow down with a new batch of features."

"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."

"If the automobile had followed the same development cycle as the computer, a Rolls-Royce would today cost $100, get a million miles per gallon, and explode once a year, killing everyone inside."

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

"Computers in the future may have only 1,000 vacuum tubes and perhapsonly weigh 1 1/2 tons."

"Efforts to protect critical computer networks have unfortunately not kept pace with the march of technology."

"Debugging is twice as hard as writing the code in the first place. Therefore, if you write the code as cleverly as possible, you are–by definition–not smart enough to debug it."

"If computers had invented humans as part of a BI program (biological intelligence), humans would have been tossed aside as barely having achieved perfect game play at Tic-Tac-Toe."

"The number one benefit of information technology is that it empowers people to do what they want to do. It lets people be creative. It lets people be productive. It lets people learn things they didn't think they could learn…"

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

"I think computer viruses should count as life. I think it says something about human nature that the only form of life we have created so far is purely destructive. We've created life in our own image."

"The new information technology—Internet and e-mail—have practically eliminated the physical costs of communications."

"If we believe in data structures, we must believe in independent (hence simultaneous) processing. For why else would we collect items within a structure? Why do we tolerate languages that give us the one without the other?"

"A printer consists of three main parts: the case, the jammed paper tray and the blinking red light."

"It is the user who should parameterize procedures, not their creators."