"A Windows user spends 1/3 of his life sleeping, 1/3 working, 1/3 waiting."

"It is extremely unlikely that anyone coming out of school with a technical degree will go into one area and stay there. Today's students have to look forward to the excitement of probably having three or four careers."

"Commercial jazz, soap opera, pulp fiction, comic strips, the movies set the images, mannerisms, standards, and aims of the urban masses. In one way or another, everyone is equal before these cultural machines; like technology itself, the mass media are…"

"If a program is useful, it will have to be changed."

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

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

"The most important computer is the one that rages in our skulls and ever seeks that satisfactory external emulator. The standarization of real computers would be a disaster - and so it probably won't happen."

"We've heard that a million monkeys at a keyboard could produce the Complete Works of Shakespeare; now, thanks to the Internet, we know this is not true."

"Hardware: where the people in your company's software section will tell you the problem is. Software: where the people in your company's hardware section will tell you the problem is."

"Information and communications technology unlocks the value of time, allowing and enabling multi-tasking, multi-channels, multi-this and multi-that."

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

"Back up my hard drive? How do I put it in reverse?"

"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)."

"Everyone can be taught to sculpt: Michelangelo would have had to be taught not to. So it is with great programmers."

"This is something we're very committed to, it's something that I think people are underestimating right now as they've seen some of the dot-com promises not come through. I think they're missing the fact that the basic technology is moving…"

"Computation has made the tree flower."

"The technology at the leading edge changes so rapidly that you have to keep current after you get out of school. I think probably the most important thing is having good fundamentals."

"You can’t have great software without a great team, and most software teams behave like dysfunctional families."

"Technology favors horrible people."

"The mass majority of computer users are conservative. They want to use the software they're used to using."

"It's very important to remember that it's your intellectual property; it's not your computer. And in the pursuit of protection of intellectual property, it's important not to defeat or undermine the security measures that people need to adopt in these…"

"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."

"It's not that we use technology, we live technology."

"I need to make an okay living. The people who work for us need to. But after you make a comfortable living, how much more do you need? It's like I make a joke about nerd values, because I'm very…"

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

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

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

"Computers make it easier to do a lot of things, but most of the things they make it easier to do don't need to be done."

"We will never become a truly paper-less society until the Palm Pilot folks come out with WipeMe 1.0."

"Windows is just DOS in drag."

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

"Three things are certain: Death, taxes, and lost data. Guess which has occurred."

"Web users ultimately want to get at data quickly and easily. They don't care as much about attractive sites and pretty design."

"Any significant boost in technology could just as easily be a rigged demo."

"I believe that Silicon Valley is truly a place of excellence and the impact of this tiny community on the world is completely disproportionate to its size. We are the undisputed leaders of technological change. But with our abundance of…"

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

"I rigged my cellular to send a message to my PDA, which is online with my PC, to get it to activate the voicemail, which sends the message to the inbox of my email, which routes it to the PDA,…"

"Every day were saying, 'How can we keep this customer happy?' How can we get ahead in innovation by doing this, because if we don't, somebody else will."

"Never trust a computer you can’t throw out a window."

"Overall, OS/2's problems fall into two categories: IBM and Microsoft."

"Capitalist production, therefore, develops technology, and the combining together of various processes into a social whole, only by sapping the original sources of all wealth - the soil and the labourer."

"Measuring programming progress by lines of code is like measuring aircraft building progress by weight."

"The debate rages on: is PL/I Bachtrian or Dromedary?"

"There are only two industries that refer to their customers as ‘users’."

"The factory of the future will have only two employees, a man and a dog. The man will be there to feed the dog. The dog will be there to keep the man from touching the equipment."

"Well Microsoft really does develop some really interesting technology."

"Technology is so much fun but we can drown in our technology. The fog of information can drive out knowledge."

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