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

"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."

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

"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."

"Recursion is the root of computation since it trades description for time."

"Re graphics: A picture is worth 10K words - but only those to describe the picture. Hardly any sets of 10K words can be adequately described with pictures."

"Software is under a constant tension. Being symbolic it is arbitrarily perfectible; but also it is arbitrarily changeable."

"It is the framework which changes with each new technology and not just the picture within the frame."

"The Internet has been the most fundamental change during my lifetime and for hundreds of years. Someone the other day said, "It's the biggest thing since Gutenberg," and then someone else said "No, it's the biggest thing since the invention…"

"Kids today have so many advantages I never had. There's no telling what I could've accomplished with a home computer and a handgun."

"Technological progress has merely provided us with more efficient means for going backwards."

"You can measure a programmer's perspective by noting his attitude on the continuing vitality of FORTRAN."

"That can be a good tax planning tool for small businesses - especially if you get a computer or something that you were planning to buy (in the coming year anyway)."

"In headlines today, the dreaded killfile virus spread across the country adding 'aol.com' to people's Usenet kill files everywhere. The programmer of the virus still remains anonymous, but has been nominated several times for a Nobel peace prize."

"It is questionable if all the mechanical inventions yet made have lightened the day's toil of any human being."

"Computer language design is just like a stroll in the park. Jurassic Park, that is."

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

"Five years ago, we thought of the Web as a new medium, not a new economy."

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

"Prolonged contact with the computer turns mathematicians into clerks and vice versa."

"Do you realize if it weren't for Edison we'd be watching TV by candlelight?"

"The best accelerator available for a Mac is one that causes it to go at 9.81 m/s2."

"If I have seen further it is by standing on the shoulders of giants."

"In English every word can be verbed. Would that it were so in our programming languages."

"High technology has done us one great service: It has retaught us the delight of performing simple and primordial tasks - chopping wood, building a fire, drawing water from a spring."

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

"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."

"We are always saying to ourself.. we have to innovate. We got to come up with that breakthrough. In fact, the way software works.. so long as you are using your existing software.. you don't pay us anything at all.…"

"Ooops. My brain just hit a bad sector."

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

"Not everything that can be counted counts, and not everything that counts can be counted."

"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."

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

"You can define advertising as the science of creating and placing media that interrupts the consumer and then gets him or her to take some action."

"Because we do not understand the brain very well we are constantly tempted to use the latest technology as a model for trying to understand it. In my childhood we were always assured that the brain was a telephone switchboard.…"

"I have an almost religious zeal.. not for technology per se, but for the Internet which is for me, the nervous system of mother Earth, which I see as a living creature, linking up."

"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."

"We have technology, finally, that for the first time in human history allows people to really maintain rich connections with much larger numbers of people."

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

"Wherever there is modularity there is the potential for misunderstanding: Hiding information implies a need to check communication."

"First we thought the PC was a calculator. Then we found out how to turn numbers into letters with ASCII — and we thought it was a typewriter. Then we discovered graphics, and we thought it was a television. With…"

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

"I like my job because it involves learning. I like being around smart people who are trying to figure out new things. I like the fact that if people really try they can figure out how to invent things that…"

"Software companies should take more responsibility for security holes, especially in browsers and e-mail clients. There are some straightforward things the industry should be doing right now to fix things, and I don't know why they haven't been done yet."

"Computers are getting smarter all the time. Scientists tell us that soon they will be able to talk to us. (And by ‘they’, I mean ‘computers’. I doubt scientists will ever be able to talk to us.)"

"A good system can't have a weak command language."

"We always overestimate the change that will occur in the next two years and underestimate the change that will occur in the next ten. Don't let yourself be lulled into inaction."

"All of the books in the world contain no more information than is broadcast as video in a single large American city in a single year. Not all bits have equal value."