"Computers are magnificent tools for the realization of our dreams, but no machine can replace the human spark of spirit, compassion, love, and understanding."

"Not until a program has been in production for at least six months will its most harmful error be discovered."

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

"The science of today is the technology of tomorrow."

"I think Microsoft named .Net so it wouldn’t show up in a Unix directory listing."

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

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

"Considering the current sad state of our computer programs, software development is clearly still a black art, and cannot yet be called an engineering discipline."

"Adapting old programs to fit new machines usually means adapting new machines to behave like old ones."

"Too few people in computer science are aware of some of the informational challenges in biology and their implications for the world. We can store an incredible amount of data very cheaply."

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

"To better understand why you need a personal computer, let's take a look at the pathetic mess you call your life."

"And bring me a hard copy of the Internet so I can do some serious surfing."

"One machine can do the work of fifty ordinary men. No machine can do the work of one extraordinary man."

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

"If we continue to develop our technology without wisdom or prudence, our servant may prove to be our executioner."

"The only problem with Microsoft is they just have no taste. They have absolutely no taste. And I don’t mean that in a small way, I mean that in a big way, in the sense that they don’t think of…"

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

"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…"

"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."

"We will create a civilization of the Mind in Cyberspace. May it be more humane and fair than the world your governments have made before."

"I have gotten everything from a one-page letter written in pencil to a 50-page computer generated masterpiece."

"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."

"The Star Trek computer doesn't seem that interesting. They ask it random questions, it thinks for a while. I think we can do better than that."

"Most software today is very much like an Egyptian pyramid with millions of bricks piled on top of each other, with no structural integrity, but just done by brute force and thousands of slaves."

"Technology innovation is starting to explode and having open-source material out there really helps this explosion. You get students and researchers involved and you get people coming through and building start ups based on open source products."

"The demand for digital textbooks has increased since its introduction to the marketplace. As students become more familiar with them and computers get faster, larger and more portable, this product will gain in popularity."

"There never was a chip, it is said, that Bill Gates couldn't slow down with a new batch of features."

"Many people see technology as the problem behind the so-called digital divide. Others see it as the solution. Technology is neither. It must operate in conjunction with business, economic, political and social system."

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

"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."

"The spoken word was the first technology by which man was able to let go of his environment in order to grasp it in a new way."

"If you give someone a program, you will frustrate them for a day; if you teach them how to program, you will frustrate them for a lifetime."

"The trouble with programmers is that you can never tell what a programmer is doing until it’s too late."

"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."

"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…"

"If we had had the right technology back then, you would have seen Eva Braun on the Donahue show and Adolf Hitler on Meet the Press."

"To err is human, but to really foul things up requires a computer."

"Spending an evening on the World Wide Web is much like sitting down to a dinner of Cheetos, two hours later your fingers are yellow and you're no longer hungry, but you haven't been nourished."

"Buying the right computer and getting it to work properly is no more complicated than building a nuclear reactor from wristwatch parts in a darkened room using only your teeth."

"You will not even have enough time to go online and download all the patches to your computer before it is infected."

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

"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."

"We have the mini and the micro computer. In what semantic niche would the pico computer fall?"

"Part of the inhumanity of the computer is that, once it is competently programmed and working smoothly, it is completely honest."

"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."

"The greatest danger in modern technology isn't that machines will begin to think like people, but that people will begin to think like machines."

"Hey ! It compiles ! Ship it !"