"Over the centuries the Indians developed sign language for communicating phenomena of interest. Programmers from different tribes (FORTRAN, LISP, ALGOL, SNOBOL, etc.) could use one that doesn't require them to carry a blackboard on their ponies."

"Over the years, the U.S. economy has shown a remarkable ability to absorb shocks of all kinds, to recover, and to continue to grow. Flexible and efficient markets for labor and capital, an entrepreneurial tradition, and a general willingness to…"

"Imagination is more important than knowledge. For knowledge is limited to all we now know and understand, while imagination embraces the entire world, and all there ever will be to know and understand."

"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."

"You know you're a geek when... You try to shoo a fly away from the monitor with your cursor. That just happened to me. It was scary."

"I think there is irony in the fact that the computer is both their chief venue of communication and propaganda and also the mother of all their fears."

"Within a computer natural language is unnatural."

"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."

"Inside every small program is a large program struggling to get out."

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

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

"640K ought to be enough for anybody."

"Optimism is an occupational hazard of programming; feedback is the treatment."

"First learn computer science and all the theory. Next develop a programming style. Then forget all that and just hack."

"I'm not anti-social; I'm just not user friendly."

"From then on, when anything went wrong with a computer, we said it had bugs in it."

"Windows 95: It's like upgrading from Reagan to Bush."

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

"Microsoft: "You've got questions. We've got dancing paperclips.""

"The best computer is a man, and it's the only one that can be mass-produced by unskilled labor."

"Treat your password like your toothbrush. Don't let anybody else use it, and get a new one every six months."

"I find sitting at a specially equipped desk in front of some pretty ugly plastics and staring at a little window is a very unnatural event."

"I completely love playing and designing games and always will. I am so into games that I listen to game music all day. That may sound strange, but you can guarantee I'm a hardcore gamer and would never let you…"

"I'm a great believer in new technology and I think new technology is very scary for newspaper companies."

"Computers have lots of memory but no imagination."

"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."

"Things should be made as simple as possible, but not any simpler."

"Technology is not an image of the world but a way of operating on reality. The nihilism of technology lies not only in the fact that it is the most perfect expression of the will to power... but also in…"

"They've grown up with the computer, so they expect things to be faster, including cooking. They like baking by adding things to a mix. In recipes, they want fewer ingredients -- seven is ideal -- and they like step-by-step pictures…"

"Always code as if the guy who ends up maintaining your code will be a violent psychopath who knows where you live."

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

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

"All of the biggest technological inventions created by man - the airplane, the automobile, the computer - says little about his intelligence, but speaks volumes about his laziness."

"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…"

"There is a chasm of carbon and silicon the software can't bridge."

"Look at growth, look at how much time people spend on the Net and look at the variety of things that they are doing. It's all really good, so I am actually encouraged by the fundamentals that underlie usage growth…"

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

"To err is human--and to blame it on a computer is even more so."

"Documentation is like term insurance: It satisfies because almost no one who subscribes to it depends on its benefits."

"The purpose of medicine is to prevent significant disease, to decrease pain and to postpone death... Technology has to support these goals-if not, it may even be counterproductive."

"Today's meters are little computers."

"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…"

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

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

"Technology is just a tool. In terms of getting the kids working together and motivating them, the teacher is the most important."

"We've all heard that a million monkeys banging on a million typewriters will eventually reproduce the entire works of Shakespeare. Now, thanks to the Internet, we know this is not true."

"Technology does not run an enterprise, relationships do."

"The system of nature, of which man is a part, tends to be self-balancing, self-adjusting, self-cleansing. Not so with technology."