"We are on the verge: Today our program proved Fermat's next-to-last theorem."

"It is not about bits, bytes and protocols, but profits, losses and margins."

"Good programmers use their brains, but good guidelines save us having to think out every case."

"If your computer speaks English, it was probably made in Japan."

"Never trust a computer you can’t throw out a window."

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

"A language that doesn't affect the way you think about programming, is not worth knowing."

"Like punning, programming is a play on words."

"In programming, everything we do is a special case of something more general -- and often we know it too quickly."

"We're responsible for the creation of the PC industry. The whole idea of compatible machines and lots of software.. that's something we brought to computing. And so it's a responsibility for us to make sure that things like security don't…"

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

"America's technology has turned in upon itself; its corporate form makes it the servant of profits, not the servant of human needs."

"Unix is simple. It just takes a genius to understand its simplicity."

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

"Real programmers can write assembly code in any language."

"Any given program, once deployed, is already obsolete."

"As soon as we started programming, we found to our surprise that it wasn’t as easy to get programs right as we had thought. Debugging had to be discovered. I can remember the exact instant when I realized…"

"Technology has the shelf life of a banana."

"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…"

"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…"

"I think Microsoft named .Net so it wouldn’t show up in a Unix directory listing."

"Artificial Intelligence: the art of making computers that behave like the ones in movies."

"Part of the inhumanity of the computer is that, once it is competently programmed and working smoothly, it is completely honest."

"The real accomplishment of modern science and technology consists in taking ordinary men, informing them narrowly and deeply and then, through appropriate organization, arranging to have their knowledge combined with that of other specialized but equally ordinary men. This dispenses…"

"If McDonalds were run like a software company, one out of every hundred Big Macs would give you food poisoning, and the response would be, ‘We’re sorry, here’s a coupon for two more."

"For a long time it puzzled me how something so expensive, so leading edge, could be so useless. And then it occurred to me that a computer is a stupid machine with the ability to do incredibly smart things,…"

"I remember the difficulty we had in the beginning replacing magnetic cores in memories and eventually we had both cost and performance advantages. But it wasn't at all clear in the beginning."

"Soon silence will have passed into legend. Man has turned his back on silence. Day after day he invents machines and devices that increase noise and distract humanity from the essence of life, contemplation, meditation...tooting, howling, screeching, booming,…"

"In computing, turning the obvious into the useful is a living definition of the word "frustration"."

"The cybernetic exchange between man, computer and algorithm is like a game of musical chairs: The frantic search for balance always leaves one of the three standing ill at ease."

"A programmer is a person who passes as an exacting expert on the basis of being able to turn out, after innumerable punching, an infinite series of incomprehensive answers calculated with micrometric precisions from vague assumptions based on debatable figures…"

"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."

"Anyone who has lost track of time when using a computer knows the propensity to dream, the urge to make dreams come true and the tendency to miss lunch."

"If brute force doesn't solve your problems, then you aren't using enough."

"The Internet is the end of civilizations, cultures, interests and ethics."

"It is dangerously destabilizing to have half the world on the cutting edge of technology while the other half struggles on the bare edge of survival."

"Computer Science is no more about computers than astronomy is about telescopes."

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

"Technology does not run an enterprise, relationships do."

"Treat your password like your toothbrush. Don't let anybody else use it, and get a new one every six months."

"The best programmers are not marginally better than merely good ones. They are an order-of-magnitude better, measured by whatever standard: conceptual creativity, speed, ingenuity of design, or problem-solving ability."

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

"We're making a major move of the Internet, and runway. Polo.com is a natural extension of both polo.com and our collection business."

"If two people write exactly the same program, each should be put into microcode and then they certainly won't be the same."

"The best book on programming for the layman is "Alice in Wonderland"; but that's because it's the best book on anything for the layman."

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

"Any fool can use a computer. Many do."

"Many people see technology as the problem behind the so-called digital divide. Others see it as the solution. Technology is neither. It must operate in conjunction with business, economic, political and social system."