"What boots up must come down."

"Fools ignore complexity. Pragmatists suffer it. Some can avoid it. Geniuses remove it."

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

"The only people who have anything to fear from free software are those whose products are worth even less."

"Adding programmers to a late project makes it later."

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

"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."

"I am a hard-core believer that the clean desktop is the way to go... At the same time, we told OEMs that if they were going to put a bunch of icons on the desktop, then so were we."

"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…"

"Crap... Someone knocked over my recycle bin... There's icons all over my desktop..."

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

"Giving up on assembly language was the apple in our Garden of Eden: Languages whose use squanders machine cycles are sinful. The LISP machine now permits LISP programmers to abandon bra and fig-leaf."

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

"We don’t have a traditional strategy process, planning process like you’d find in traditional technical companies. It allows Google to innovate very, very quickly, which I think is a real strength of the company."

"Microsoft has a new version out, Windows XP, which according to everybody is the ‘most reliable Windows ever.‘ To me, this is like saying that asparagus is ‘the most articulate vegetable ever."

"Windows NT addresses 2 Gigabytes of RAM, which is more than any application will ever need."

"Hacking is like sex. You get in, you get out, and hope that you didn't leave something that can be traced back to you."

"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."

"I still have my laptop but I haven't used it. I'm a paper man, not electronic."

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

"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 sooner you start coding a program, the longer it will take."

"In computing, invariants are ephemeral."

"In view of all the deadly computer viruses that have been spreading lately, Weekend Update would like to remind you: when you link up to another computer, you're linking up to every computer that that computer has ever linked up…"

"Windows NT crashed. I am the Blue Screen of Death. No one hears your screams."

"Yesterday it worked Today it is not working Windows is like that"

"Good code is its own best documentation."

"It is not a language's weakness but its strengths that control the gradient of its change: Alas, a language never escapes its embryonic sac."

"The only business that is ever threatened by improved technologies are those that need to be left behind."

"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…"

"Advances in computer technology and the Internet have changed the way America works, learns, and communicates. The Internet has become an integral part of America's economic, political, and social life."

"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."

"The digital revolution is far more significant than the invention of writing or even of printing."

"Computation has made the tree flower."

"Not even computers will replace committees, because committees buy computers."

"The use of COBOL cripples the mind; its teaching should therefore be regarded as a criminal offense."

"The best museums and museum exhibits about science or technology give you the feeling that, hey, this is interesting, but maybe I could do something here, too."

"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…"

"People keep asking me what I think of it now that it's done. Hence my protest: The Web is not done!"

"Simplicity does not precede complexity, but follows it."

"Americans have the right to have their medical decisions made by them and their doctors, and not by those bureaucrats sitting behind a computer screen hundreds of miles away."

"I need to make an okay living. The people who work for us need to. But after you make a comfortable living, how much more do you need? It's like I make a joke about nerd values, because I'm very…"

"Within a computer natural language is unnatural."

"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."

"NO, You cannot dial 911, I'm downloading my mail !!!"

"One would think that if you're anonymous, you'd do anything you want, but groups have their own sense of community and what we can do."

"I do not fear computers. I fear the lack of them."

"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."