"The attention span of a computer is only as long as its electrical cord."

"Beware of computer programmers that carry screwdrivers."

"If Unix is the face of the future I want to go back to quill pens."

"The Internet is so big, so powerful and pointless that for some people it is a complete substitute for life."

"SUPERCOMPUTER: what it sounded like before you bought it."

"I am sometimes something of a lazy person, so when I end up spending a lot of time using something myself — as I did with Google in the earliest of days, I knew it was a big deal."

"Around computers it is difficult to find the correct unit of time to measure progress. Some cathedrals took a century to complete. Can you imagine the grandeur and scope of a program that would take as long?"

"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."

"A carelessly planned project takes three times longer to complete than expected; a carefully planned project takes only twice as long."

"Grove giveth and Gates taketh away."

"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…"

"The "Net is a waste of time, and that's exactly what's right about it."

"From the time I was 7, when I purchased my first calculator, I was fascinated by the idea of a machine that could compute things."

"In a world without walls and fences, who needs Windows and Gates ?"

"Computers, huh? I've heard it all boils down to just a bunch of ones and zeroes.... I don't know how that enables me to see naked women, but however it works, God bless you guys."

"Why is it drug addicts and computer afficionados are both called users?"

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

"As Will Rogers would have said, "There is no such thing as a free variable.""

"One good reason why computers can do more work than people is that they never have to stop and answer the phone."

"They're growing at three to four times the personal computer market."

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

"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."

"If computers had invented humans as part of a BI program (biological intelligence), humans would have been tossed aside as barely having achieved perfect game play at Tic-Tac-Toe."

"It was a pivotal moment in the history of computers and the history of advertising."

"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."

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

"Computers can figure out all kinds of problems, except the things in the world that just don't add up."

"The telephone wire, as we know it, has become too slow and too small to handle Internet traffic. It took 75 years for telephones to be used by 50 million customers, but it took only four years for the Internet…"

"Technological progress is like an axe in the hands of a pathological criminal."

"Computer Science is no more about computers than astronomy is about telescopes."

"The Net interprets censorship as damage and routes around it."

"Windows isn't a virus, viruses do something."

"Ever notice how fast Windows runs ? — Neither did I."

"Microsoft is not the answer. Microsoft is the question. NO is the answer."

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

"The first rule of any technology used in a business is that automation applied to an efficient operation will magnify the efficiency. The second is that automation applied to an inefficient operation will magnify the inefficiency."

"The future masters of technology will have to be light-hearted and intelligent. The machine easily masters the grim and the dumb."

"This is a highly reliable power source. Being a large credit card processor, doing $6 million an hour in transactions, our computers have to work."

"There are two ways to write error-free programs; only the third one works."

"Syntactic sugar causes cancer of the semicolon."

"It is a commonplace of modern technology that problems have solutions before there is knowledge of how they are to be solved."

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

"The protection of personal information stored on our nation's computer systems is critical to public trust in those networks and to the health of our economy."

"What does it say about our culture that personality is now considered a technology, a tool of the trade, not only in politics but in business and the professions? Has everyone been forced to become an actor? In sixteenth century…"

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

"We’re gambling on our vision, and we would rather do that than make “me too” products. Let some other companies do that. For us, it’s always the next dream."

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

"Once you understand how to write a program get someone else to write it."