"The world is coming to an end... SAVE YOUR BUFFERS!"

"I get mail, therefore I am."

"Programming today is a race between software engineers striving to build bigger and better idiot-proof programs, and the Universe trying to produce bigger and better idiots. So far, the Universe is winning."

"The first 90% of the code accounts for the first 90% of the development time. The remaining 10% of the code accounts for the other 90% of the development time."

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

"My favorite thing about the Internet is that you get to go into the private world of real creeps without having to smell them."

"With engineering, I view this year's failure as next year's opportunity to try it again. Failures are not something to be avoided. You want to have them happen as quickly as you can so you can make progress rapidly."

"Technology is like a fish. The longer it stays on the shelf, the less desirable it becomes."

"There's no set architecture in Linux. All roads lead to madness."

"MS-DOS isn't dead, it just smells that way."

"'Intel Inside': The world's most widely used warning label."

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

"Some say Google is God. Others say Google is Satan. But if they think Google is too powerful, remember that with search engines unlike other companies, all it takes is a single click to go to another search engine."

"In programming, as in everything else, to be in error is to be reborn."

"It was never clear that it wouldn't just stop (the WWW). Any time during that exponential growth, it could have stalled. I think we were never very confident until 1993."

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

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

"Technology is ruled by two types of people: those who manage what they do not understand, and those who understand what they do not manage."

"Science is supposedly the method by which we stand on the shoulders of those who came before us. In computer science, we all are standing on each others' feet."

"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."

"Computer Science is no more about computers than astronomy is about telescopes."

"The Internet may fairly be regarded as a never-ending worldwide conversation. The government may not, through the , interrupt that conversation... As the most participatory form of mass speech yet developed, the Internet deserves the highest protection from governmental intrusion...…"

"I also introduce skills like using a hula hoop or jumping rope. I think many kids this age need a break from the computer or video games to learn these very important physical skills."

"The Internet is like a giant jellyfish. You can't step on it. You can't go around it. You've got to get through it."

"The first rule of any technology used in a business is that automation applied to an efficient operation will magnify the efficiency. The second is that automation applied to an inefficient operation will magnify the inefficiency."

"Technology has the shelf life of a banana."

"First words on the first telephone - "Mr. Watson -- come here -- I want to see you.""

"Windows NT addresses 2 Gigabytes of RAM, which is more than any application will ever need."

"The interesting thing is when we design and architect a server, we don't design it for Windows or Linux, we design it for both. We don't really care, as long as we're selling the one the customer wants."

"Artificial Intelligence: the art of making computers that behave like the ones in movies."

"These are best-of-breed computers for consumers looking for the best technology available for advanced multimedia and entertainment applications."

"I have an almost religious zeal.. not for technology per se, but for the Internet which is for me, the nervous system of mother Earth, which I see as a living creature, linking up."

"If you automate a mess, you get an automated mess."

"Once a new technology rolls over you, if you're not part of the steamroller, you're part of the road."

"Computers will never replace good old-fashioned human stupidity."

"Saying that most of the computer was filled with personal images is simply not accurate."

"The term reboot comes from the middle age (before computers). Horses who stopped in mid-stride required a boot to the rear to start again. Thus the term to rear-boot, later abbreviated into reboot."

"Once you understand how to write a program get someone else to write it."

"640K ought to be enough for anybody."

"That’s what’s cool about working with computers. They don’t argue, they remember everything, and they don’t drink all your beer."

"Any fool can use a computer. Many do."

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

"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 march of science and technology does not imply growing intellectual complexity in the lives of most people. It often means the opposite."

"In computing, invariants are ephemeral."

"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."

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

"The goal of computation is the emulation of our synthetic abilities, not the understanding of our analytic ones."