"Looking at the proliferation of personal web pages on the net, it looks like very soon everyone on earth will have 15 Megabytes of fame."

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

"Worth noting: running 'reboot -h' does NOT produce a helpful usage message."

"The Internet is the end of civilizations, cultures, interests and ethics."

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

"Computers are like air conditioners: they stop working when you open windows."

"Technology is the drug of choice for most Americans. Source unknown Theory: when you have ideas. Ideology: when ideas have you."

"Technology makes the world a new place."

"Any non-trivial program contains at least one error."

"Our biggest demographic is the intelligent professional. They've got a computer on their desk, they've got a web browser and they check us out. We are many people's morning cup of coffee."

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

"The bulk of all patents are crap. Spending time reading them is stupid. It’s up to the patent owner to do so, and to enforce them."

"To err is human, but to really foul things up requires a computer."

"Is it possible that software is not like anything else, that it is meant to be discarded: that the whole point is to see it as a soap bubble?"

"The purpose of medicine is to prevent significant disease, to decrease pain and to postpone death... Technology has to support these goals-if not, it may even be counterproductive."

"Grove giveth and Gates taketh away."

"The real problem is not whether machines think but whether men do."

"The only business that is ever threatened by improved technologies are those that need to be left behind."

"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."

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

"The most important and urgent problems of the technology of today are no longer the satisfactions of primary needs or of archetypal wishes, but the reparation of the evils and damages by technology of yesterday."

"My computer must be broken: whenever I ask a wrong question, it gives a wrong answer."

"Why is it drug addicts and computer afficionados are both called users?"

"That’s the thing about people who think they hate computers. What they really hate is lousy programmers."

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

"E-mail — When it absolutely, positively has to get lost at the speed of light."

"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."

"We’re gambling on our vision, and we would rather do that than make “me too” products. Let some other companies do that. For us, it’s always the next dream."

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

"Customers are still setting the technology agenda. Not just you, our customers, but your customers as well. What more and more are telling you is what kind of services they need, and how and when they want those services delivered…"

"Life would be so much easier if we only had the source code."

"I have gotten everything from a one-page letter written in pencil to a 50-page computer generated masterpiece."

"If a program manipulates a large amount of data, it does so in a small number of ways."

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

"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 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."

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

"First and foremost, the Internet is unique since it is THE only interactive medium -- and that's important because from a content, service, and communications perspective, we web folks try to take advantage of that interactivity."

"A program without a loop and a structured variable isn't worth writing."

"The only problem with Microsoft is they just have no taste. They have absolutely no taste. And I don’t mean that in a small way, I mean that in a big way, in the sense that they don’t think of…"

"I think it's fair to say that personal computers have become the most empowering tool we've ever created. They're tools of communication, they're tools of creativity, and they can be shaped by their user."

"We don’t have a traditional strategy process, planning process like you’d find in traditional technical companies. It allows Google to innovate very, very quickly, which I think is a real strength of the company."

"Double your drive space — delete Windows !"

"If it keeps up, man will atrophy all his limbs but the push-button finger."

"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…"

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

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

"If you have any trouble sounding condescending, find a Unix user to show you how it's done."