"Unix is user-friendly. It's just very selective about who its friends are."

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

"It is easier to write an incorrect program than understand a correct one."

"I just the other day got, an internet was sent by my staff at 10 o'clock in the morning on Friday and I just got it yesterday. Why ? Because it got tangled up with all these things going on…"

"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."

"Computers can now keep a man's every transgression recorded in a permanent memory bank, duplicating with complex programming and intricate wiring a feat his wife handles quite well without fuss or fanfare."

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

"As network administrator I can take down the network with one keystroke. It's just like being a doctor but without getting gooky stuff on my paws."

"That’s what’s cool about working with computers. They don’t argue, they remember everything, and they don’t drink all your beer."

"David and I and the rest of the Yahoos here really believe that the internet should remain as free as possible. At the same time we are a business and have fiscal responsibilities."

"Bill Gates is so rich because he got his wish when he said: 'I wish I had a nickel for every time a PC reboots'."

"Live TV died in the late 1950s, electronic bulletin boards came along in the mid-1980s, meaning there was about a 25-year gap when it was difficult to put your foot in your mouth and have people all across the country…"

"Too few people in computer science are aware of some of the informational challenges in biology and their implications for the world. We can store an incredible amount of data very cheaply."

"Applying computer technology is simply finding the right wrench to pound in the correct screw."

"Unfortunately this was an older file that this person hadn't opened in quite a while. The person who uses this computer had missed it."

"Considering the flames and intolerance, shouldn't USENET be spelled ABUSENET?"

"Often it is the means that justify the ends: Goals advance technique and technique survives even when goal structures crumble."

"There are only two kinds of programming languages: those people always bitch about and those nobody uses."

"I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination. Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world."

"Writing code has a place in the human hierarchy worth somewhere above grave robbing and beneath managing."

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

"The computer reminds one of Lon Chaney -- it is the machine of a thousand faces."

"When music technology takes the place of musicianship, it's time to pull the plug."

"What is the difference between a Turing machine and the modern computer? It's the same as that between Hillary's ascent of Everest and the establishment of a Hilton hotel on its peak."

"In the long run every program becomes rococo - then rubble."

"Saying that most of the computer was filled with personal images is simply not accurate."

"It's a fact that more people watch television and get their information that way than read books. I find new technology and new ways of communication very exciting and would like to do more in this field."

"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."

"We have yet to see the full impact of the open, global marketplace. By 1997 all raw materials and technology will be available everywhere in the world. The only differences between countries and markets will be skill levels, education, and…"

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

"Some people think technology has the answers."

"Any non-trivial program contains at least one error."

"Programmers are in a race with the Universe to create bigger and better idiot-proof programs, while the Universe is trying to create bigger and better idiots. So far the Universe is winning."

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

"In software systems, it is often the early bird that makes the worm."

"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."

"We're only at the beginning of what we have to do here."

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

"Back up my hard drive? How do I put it in reverse?"

"The inside of a computer is as dumb as hell but it goes like mad!"

"We know by now that if we make technology the predestined force in our lives, man will walk to the measure of its demands. We know how leveling that influence can be, how easy it is to computerize man and…"

"It is better to have 100 functions operate on one data structure than 10 functions on 10 data structures."

"It would appear that we have reached the limits of what it is possible to achieve with computer technology, although one should be careful with such statements, as they tend to sound pretty silly in 5 years."

"Why do we want intelligent terminals when there are so many stupid users ?"

"Hardware: where the people in your company's software section will tell you the problem is. Software: where the people in your company's hardware section will tell you the problem is."

"In seeking the unattainable, simplicity only gets in the way."

"If it keeps up, man will atrophy all his limbs but the push-button finger."

"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."