"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."

"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."

"Steve Jobs may have the apple, but Bill Gates has the entire orchard !"

"Customers are still setting the technology agenda. Not just you, our customers, but your customers as well. What more and more are telling you is what kind of services they need, and how and when they want those services delivered…"

"The interesting thing is when we design and architect a server, we don't design it for Windows or Linux, we design it for both. We don't really care, as long as we're selling the one the customer wants."

"When we understand knowledge-based systems, it will be as before -- except our fingertips will have been singed."

"Should array indices start at 0 or 1? My compromise of 0.5 was rejected without, I thought, proper consideration."

"The most important and urgent problems of the technology of today are no longer the satisfactions of primary needs or of archetypal wishes, but the reparation of the evils and damages by technology of yesterday."

"It makes life difficult ... because law changes very slowly. We have judges who did not grow up with computers and so many do not understand the technology and issues it raises."

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

"Bill Gates is a very rich man today... and do you want to know why? The answer is one word: versions."

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

"Windows is just DOS in drag."

"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)."

"The most exciting breakthroughs of the 21st century will not occur because of technology but because of an expanding concept of what it means to be human."

"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…"

"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…"

"Technology is ruled by two types of people: those who manage what they do not understand, and those who understand what they do not manage."

"The computer provides the only way to give students a real foundation in 21st-century skills."

"AOL is like the cockroach left after the nuclear bomb hits. They know how to survive."

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

"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 suppliers are trying to make their software packages more ‘user-friendly’… Their best approach so far has been to take all the old brochures and stamp the words ‘user-friendly’ on the cover."

"The best way to prepare [to be a programmer] is to write programs, and to study great programs that other people have written. In my case, I went to the garbage cans at the Computer Science Center and fished out…"

"Everybody who runs a Web site knows we're not assured of compatibility."

"I had one simple idea about telling friends about arts and technology events. People in the community suggested everything else to us, and that's our theme. We're really run by the people who use the site. We just run the…"

"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."

"I just bought a Mac to help me design the next Cray."

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

"After growing wildly for years, the field of computing appears to be reaching its infancy."

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

"MS-DOS, an OS originally designed for a microprocessor that modern kitchen appliances would sneer at."

"I also introduce skills like using a hula hoop or jumping rope. I think many kids this age need a break from the computer or video games to learn these very important physical skills."

"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…"

"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."

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

"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."

"Our mission is to organize the world's information. Clearly, the more information we have when we do a search, the better it's going to work."

"This is a big deal. It's a fairly natural partnership; it shouldn't surprise people, ... We're working on bringing this network-is-the-computer, Net services environment."

"Controlling complexity is the essence of computer programming."

"In 20 or 30 years, you'll be able to hold in your hand as much computing knowledge as exists now in the whole city, or even the whole world."

"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."

"Technology is the drug of choice for most Americans. Source unknown Theory: when you have ideas. Ideology: when ideas have you."

"Style used to be an interaction between the human soul and tools that were limiting. In the digital era, it will have to come from the soul alone."

"Better to be a geek than an idiot."

"It’s really hard to design products by focus groups. A lot of times, people don’t know what they want until you show it to them."

"Men are from Mars. Women are from Venus. Computers are from hell."

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