"Bill Gates is a very rich man today... and do you want to know why? The answer is one word: versions."

"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 makes it possible for people to gain control over everything, except over technology."

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

"Part of our brand is that we're pretty understated in what we do. If you look at other technology companies, they might preannounce things, and it will be a couple years before they really happen, and they don't happen in…"

"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."

"I completely love playing and designing games and always will. I am so into games that I listen to game music all day. That may sound strange, but you can guarantee I'm a hardcore gamer and would never let you…"

"There are three kinds of death in this world. There's heart death, there's brain death, and there's being off the network."

"The best accelerator available for a Mac is one that causes it to go at 9.81 m/s2."

"We're responsible for the creation of the PC industry. The whole idea of compatible machines and lots of software.. that's something we brought to computing. And so it's a responsibility for us to make sure that things like security don't…"

"Beware of the Turing tar-pit in which everything is possible but nothing of interest is easy."

"There's a whole kind of hip element to it -- now I need this. Right smack in the middle of the 21st century, sophistication is marrying itself to a very old-fashioned notion of a table where you play games, long…"

"Back up my hard disk ? I can't find the reverse switch !"

"A lot of companies have chosen to downsize, and maybe that was the right thing for them. We chose a different path. Our belief was that if we kept putting great products in front of customers, they would continue to…"

"The best way to prepare [to be a programmer] is to write programs, and to study great programs that other people have written. In my case, I went to the garbage cans at the Computer Science Center and fished out…"

"Daddy, what does FORMATTING DRIVE C mean?"

"Every program is a part of some other program and rarely fits."

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

"The computer provides the only way to give students a real foundation in 21st-century skills."

"I think one of the big errors people are making right now is thinking that old-style businesses will be obsolete, when actually they will be an important part of this new civilization. Some retail groups are introducing e-commerce and think…"

"It is a commonplace of modern technology that problems have solutions before there is knowledge of how they are to be solved."

"Los Angeles County officials have asked that manufacturers, suppliers and contractors stop using the terms 'master' and 'slave' regarding computer hard drives, saying such terms are unacceptable and offensive. Additionally, the term 'e-mail' will now be called 'e-person letter', 'dumb…"

"Better to be a geek than an idiot."

"Get into a rut early: Do the same process the same way. Accumulate idioms. Standardize. The only difference(!) between Shakespeare and you was the size of his idiom list - not the size of his vocabulary."

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

"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)."

"Pixar is the most technically advanced creative company; Apple is the most creatively advanced technical company."

"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…"

"Humanity is acquiring all the right technology for all the wrong reasons."

"There's a great desire to be computer-savvy among those 50 and older. They're really hungry for it."

"Structured Programming supports the law of the excluded muddle."

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

"Getting Information off the Internet is like taking a drink from a fire hydrant."

"If computers get too powerful, we can organize them into committees. That'll do them in."

"Controlling complexity is the essence of computer programming."

"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."

"Technological progress has merely provided us with more efficient means for going backwards."

"Innovation distinguishes between a leader and a follower."

"The Internet is becoming the town square for the global village of tomorrow."

"Men are from Mars. Women are from Venus. Computers are from hell."

"First learn computer science and all the theory. Next develop a programming style. Then forget all that and just hack."

"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."

"I'm struck by the insidious, computer-driven tendency to take things out of the domain of muscular activity and put them into the domain of mental activity."

"NO, You cannot dial 911, I'm downloading my mail !!!"

"Not even computers will replace committees, because committees buy computers."

"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."

"The real accomplishment of modern science and technology consists in taking ordinary men, informing them narrowly and deeply and then, through appropriate organization, arranging to have their knowledge combined with that of other specialized but equally ordinary men. This dispenses…"

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