"God never made his work for man to mend."

"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."

"640K ought to be enough for anybody."

"Within a computer natural language is unnatural."

"Programming today is a race between software engineers striving to build bigger and better idiot-proof programs, and the Universe trying to produce bigger and better idiots. So far, the Universe is winning."

"So many good ideas are never heard from again once they embark in a voyage on the semantic gulf."

"A computer makes it possible to do, in half an hour, tasks which were completely unnecessary to do before."

"There's a whole kind of hip element to it -- now I need this. Right smack in the middle of the 21st century, sophistication is marrying itself to a very old-fashioned notion of a table where you play games, long…"

"Once a new technology rolls over you, if you're not part of the steamroller, you're part of the road."

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

"The modern computer hovers between the obsolescent and the nonexistent."

"What the country needs are a few labor-making inventions."

"One day soon the Gillette company will announce the development of a razor that, thanks to a computer microchip, can actually travel ahead in time and shave beard hairs that don't even exist yet."

"Two men were examining the output of the new computer in their department. After an hour or so of analyzing the data, one of them remarked: "Do you realize it would take 400 men at least 250 years to make…"

"Technology presumes there's just one right way to do things and there never is."

"Programming is an unnatural act."

"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."

"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!"

"Bringing computers into the home won't change either one, but may revitalize the corner saloon."

"Microsoft is now talking about the digital nervous system... I guess I would be nervous if my system was built on their technology too."

"The Internet is like a giant jellyfish. You can't step on it. You can't go around it. You've got to get through it."

"Perhaps if we wrote programs from childhood on, as adults we'd be able to read them."

"The great thing about a computer notebook is that no matter how much you stuff into it, it doesn't get bigger or heavier."

"Some say Google is God. Others say Google is Satan. But if they think Google is too powerful, remember that with search engines unlike other companies, all it takes is a single click to go to another search engine."

"It is easier to change the specification to fit the program than vice versa."

"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 term reboot comes from the middle age (before computers). Horses who stopped in mid-stride required a boot to the rear to start again. Thus the term to rear-boot, later abbreviated into reboot."

"Pentiums melt in your PC, not in your hand."

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

"The newest computer can merely compound, at speed, the oldest problem in the relations between human beings, and in the end the communicator will be confronted with the old problem, of what to say and how to say it."

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

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

"Build a program that even a fool can use, and only a fool will want to use it."

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

"Bill Gates is the pope of the personal computer industry. He decides who's going to build."

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

"You will not even have enough time to go online and download all the patches to your computer before it is infected."

"It is not the computer's fault that Maxwell's equations are not adequate to design the electric motor."

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

"There are two ways of constructing a software design. One way is to make it so simple that there are obviously no deficiencies. And the other way is to make it so complicated that there are no obvious deficiencies."

"Upwards of two hundred species.. mostly of the large, slow-breeding variety.. are becoming extinct here every day because more and more of the earth's carrying capacity is systematically being converted into human carrying capacity. These species are being burnt out,…"

"I can't uninstall it, there seems to be some kind of 'Uninstall Shield'."

"Computers are like Old Testament gods; lots of rules and no mercy."

"Think of it! With VLSI we can pack 100 ENIACS in 1 sq. cm."

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

"Getting Information off the Internet is like taking a drink from a fire hydrant."

"If you have a procedure with ten parameters, you probably missed some."