"There's a lot that can be done for people who are using technology in a better way."

"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?"

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

"Calculations which required a $20 million machine eight years ago can be done on a Mac cluster costing about $11,000."

"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 sooner you start coding a program, the longer it will take."

"It's hard for us in our stores to be a leader in technology."

"Unix is user-friendly. It's just very selective about who its friends are."

"They should never have entered him in that computer. It's just common sense? that's the bottom line. I don't think it should have gotten this far."

"Software companies should take more responsibility for security holes, especially in browsers and e-mail clients. There are some straightforward things the industry should be doing right now to fix things, and I don't know why they haven't been done yet."

"There is no programming language–no matter how structured–that will prevent programmers from making bad programs."

"Paper returns done by hand have an 80 percent accuracy rate, or 20 percent error rate. E-file has more than a 99 percent accuracy rate, because the computer does all the work for you."

"The best programmers are not marginally better than merely good ones. They are an order-of-magnitude better, measured by whatever standard: conceptual creativity, speed, ingenuity of design, or problem-solving ability."

"Adding programmers to a late project makes it later."

"I am a hard-core believer that the clean desktop is the way to go... At the same time, we told OEMs that if they were going to put a bunch of icons on the desktop, then so were we."

"There used to be this country called the Soviet Union; it's not there anymore. Our technology was better than theirs."

"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."

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

"A good system can't have a weak command language."

"Computers are getting smarter all the time. Scientists tell us that soon they will be able to talk to us. (And by ‘they’, I mean ‘computers’. I doubt scientists will ever be able to talk to us.)"

"Every program has (at least) two purposes: the one for which it was written, and another for which it wasn't."

"If google made $1 everytime someone used them to find an answer to a tech support question, they would own microsoft."

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

"Where there is the necessary technical skill to move mountains, there is no need for the faith that moves mountains."

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

"You can try to control people, or you can try to have a system that represents reality. I find that knowing what's really happening is more important than trying to control people."

"The most amazing achievement of the computer software industry is its continuing cancellation of the steady and staggering gains made by the computer hardware industry."

"What boots up must come down."

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

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

"The last good thing written in C++ was the Pachelbel Canon."

"A program is a spell cast over a computer, turning input into error messages."

"Functions delay binding; data structures induce binding. Moral: Structure data late in the programming process."

"Everybody who runs a Web site knows we're not assured of compatibility."

"Simplicity does not precede complexity, but follows it."

"I think that it's always possible to have a great company if you have great ideas. I will say that since the web has become more commercialized, it also takes some good financial resources to build a great business, but…"

"WWW? Nice toy, but what a waste of time."

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

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

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

"Saying your OS is the best in the world 'cause more people use it is like saying McDonalds makes the best food in the world."

"Considering the flames and intolerance, shouldn't USENET be spelled ABUSENET?"

"Western society has accepted as unquestionable a technological imperative that is quite as arbitrary as the most primitive taboo: not merely the duty to foster invention and constantly to create technological novelties, but equally the duty to surrender to…"

"Often it is the means that justify the ends: Goals advance technique and technique survives even when goal structures crumble."

"Renewable energy is proven technology, the price is dropping, the rest of the world is going that way, that's where our investment should be going as well."

"If you look at the top 20 companies of the world, 19 of them are still brick-and-mortar companies. I have nothing against tech companies. What I am saying is that if you have a car manufacturer or an oil and…"

"You can measure a programmer's perspective by noting his attitude on the continuing vitality of FORTRAN."

"Fools ignore complexity. Pragmatists suffer it. Some can avoid it. Geniuses remove it."