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

"There are broken toilets left there, old computers and miscellaneous garbage. They are totally unsupervised. The recycling company is good, but when people want to dump trash, they dump trash."

"I see no progress in this industry. These clocks are no faster than the ones they made a hundred years ago."

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

"Program complexity grows until it exceeds the capabilities of the programmer who must maintain it."

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

"The US Nuclear Security Administration runs the Blue Gene supercomputer. It is supposed to be the top super computer in the world ? and it runs on GNU Linux. Of the top 10 super computers in the world, seven run…"

"Whereas knights of old wore armor of plate, the modern knights of the air wear the invisible but magic armor of confidence in technology."

"Technology has the shelf life of a banana."

"The number one benefit of information technology is that it empowers people to do what they want to do. It lets people be creative. It lets people be productive. It lets people learn things they didn't think they could learn…"

"Database: the information you lose when your memory crashes."

"For a list of all the ways technology has failed to improve the quality of life, please press three."

"If I had taken a proprietary control of the Web, then it would never have taken off. People only committed their time to it because they knew it was open, shared: that they could help decide what would happen to…"

"The computer reminds one of Lon Chaney -- it is the machine of a thousand faces."

"Computation has made the tree flower."

"Well, another market is being created now out of Internet technology."

"The danger from computers is not that they will eventually get as smart as men, but that we will meanwhile agree to meet them halfway."

"Complexity kills. It sucks the life out of developers, it makes products difficult to plan, build and test, it introduces security challenges, and it causes end-user and administrator frustration."

"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…"

"Good programmers use their brains, but good guidelines save us having to think out every case."

"Soon silence will have passed into legend. Man has turned his back on silence. Day after day he invents machines and devices that increase noise and distract humanity from the essence of life, contemplation, meditation...tooting, howling, screeching, booming,…"

"The computing field is always in need of new cliches."

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

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

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

"I still have my laptop but I haven't used it. I'm a paper man, not electronic."

"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."

"The computer is the most extraordinary of man's technological clothing; it's an extension of our central nervous system. Beside it, the wheel is a mere hula-hoop."

"One would think that if you're anonymous, you'd do anything you want, but groups have their own sense of community and what we can do."

"Though the Chinese should adore APL, it's FORTRAN they put their money on."

"We live in a world ruled by fictions of every kind -- mass merchandising, advertising, politics conducted as a branch of advertising, the instant translation of science and technology into popular imagery, the increasing blurring and intermingling of identities within…"

"The Web is like a dominatrix. Everywhere I turn, I see little buttons ordering me to Submit."

"There are only two kinds of programming languages: those people always bitch about and those nobody uses."

"Americans have the right to have their medical decisions made by them and their doctors, and not by those bureaucrats sitting behind a computer screen hundreds of miles away."

"Everything should be built top-down, except the first time."

"One day soon the Gillette company will announce the development of a razor that, thanks to a computer microchip, can actually travel ahead in time and shave beard hairs that don't even exist yet."

"We have yet to see the full impact of the open, global marketplace. By 1997 all raw materials and technology will be available everywhere in the world. The only differences between countries and markets will be skill levels, education, and…"

"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."

"If a listener nods his head when you're explaining your program, wake him up."

"Programming is like sex: one mistake and you’re providing support for a lifetime."

"Software expands to consume all available resources."

"The eleventh commandment was "Thou Shalt Compute" or "Thou Shalt Not Compute" - I forget which."

"I just the other day got, an internet was sent by my staff at 10 o'clock in the morning on Friday and I just got it yesterday. Why ? Because it got tangled up with all these things going on…"

"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."

"Programmers are tools for converting caffeine into code."

"True innovation often comes from the small startup who is lean enough to launch a market but lacks the heft to own it."

"Encryption...is a powerful defensive weapon for free people. It offers a technical guarantee of privacy, regardless of who is running the government... It's hard to think of a more powerful, less dangerous tool for liberty."

"The system of nature, of which man is a part, tends to be self-balancing, self-adjusting, self-cleansing. Not so with technology."