"I don't want to be left behind. In fact, I want to be here before the action starts."

"Anyone who spends their life on a computer is pretty unusual."

"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 best museums and museum exhibits about science or technology give you the feeling that, hey, this is interesting, but maybe I could do something here, too."

"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."

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

"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."

"A computer makes it possible to do, in half an hour, tasks which were completely unnecessary to do before."

"Moore's Law - The number of transistors and resistors on a chip doubles every 24 months"

"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."

"We hope that the Internet becomes even more affordable and more ubiquitous over time, and our mission at Yahoo! is to continue to keep our services available AND useful on all these platforms."

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

"To iterate is human, to recurse divine."

"Is it possible that software is not like anything else, that it is meant to be discarded: that the whole point is to see it as a soap bubble?"

"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…"

"If the automobile had followed the same development cycle as the computer, a Rolls-Royce would today cost $100, get a million miles per gallon, and explode once a year, killing everyone inside."

"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…"

"A distributed system is one in which the failure of a computer you didn't even know existed can render your own computer unusable."

"Everyone has a right to a university degree in America, even if it's in Hamburger Technology."

"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."

"Users /nm./: collective term for those who use computers. Users are divided into three types: novice, intermediate and expert. Novice Users: people who are afraid that simply pressing a key might break their computer. Intermediate Users: people who don't know how to…"

"Build a program that even a fool can use, and only a fool will want to use it."

"Technology... is a queer thing. It brings you great gifts with one hand, and it stabs you in the back with the other."

"What do people mean when they say the computer went down on them?"

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

"We're changing the world with technology."

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

"The difference between e-mail and regular mail is that computers handle e-mail, and computers never decide to come to work one day and shoot all the other computers."

"Users truly don’t know what they want in a program until they use it."

"Technology has the shelf life of a banana."

"In C++ it’s harder to shoot yourself in the foot, but when you do, you blow off your whole leg."

"There's a whole kind of hip element to it -- now I need this. Right smack in the middle of the 21st century, sophistication is marrying itself to a very old-fashioned notion of a table where you play games, long…"

"Imagine if every Thursday your shoes exploded if you tied them the usual way. This happens to us all the time with computers, and nobody thinks of complaining."

"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."

"The Internet is not just one thing, it's a collection of things - of numerous communications networks that all speak the same digital language."

"The string is a stark data structure and everywhere it is passed there is much duplication of process. It is a perfect vehicle for hiding information."

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

"Fifty years of programming language research, and we end up with C++?"

"Double your drive space — delete Windows !"

"I want people to understand the amazing, positive way our software can make leisure time more enjoyable, and work and businesses more successful."

"Food for thought: A fully-protected-and-updated Windows box cannot, by definition, have an uptime of more than 30 days."

"Structured Programming supports the law of the excluded muddle."

"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…"

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

"Programming is an unnatural act."

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

"A complex system that works is invariably found to have evolved from a simple system that worked."

"Get into a rut early: Do the same process the same way. Accumulate idioms. Standardize. The only difference(!) between Shakespeare and you was the size of his idiom list - not the size of his vocabulary."