"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."

"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.)"

"I have to say I was a bit shocked to see myself on the cover (TIME magazine). It's really not my style since Yahoo! is something built by a lot more people than just me.."

"Back up my hard drive? How do I put it in reverse?"

"Over time, it's becoming more and more understood by people that we're acting in their interests. And that's a very, very powerful thing for our brand."

"I can't uninstall it, there seems to be some kind of 'Uninstall Shield'."

"Every operating system out there is about equal… We all suck."

"We have the mini and the micro computer. In what semantic niche would the pico computer fall?"

"Sometimes I think the only universal in the computing field is the fetch-execute cycle."

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

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

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

"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,…"

"Whenever two programmers meet to criticize their programs, both are silent."

"We really care about our brand. We really want it to stand for high quality. We want people to be excited about it, for it to be fun."

"The factory of the future will have only two employees, a man and a dog. The man will be there to feed the dog. The dog will be there to keep the man from touching the equipment."

"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)."

"WinNT: All the headaches of Unix, but in a pretty, windowed environment."

"A year spent in artificial intelligence is enough to make one believe in God."

"Because we do not understand the brain very well we are constantly tempted to use the latest technology as a model for trying to understand it. In my childhood we were always assured that the brain was a telephone switchboard.…"

"It has been said that the great scientific disciplines are examples of giants standing on the shoulders of other giants. It has also been said that the software industry is an example of midgets standing on the toes of…"

"The medium is the message. This is merely to say that the personal and social consequences of any medium / that is, of any extension of ourselves / result from the new scale that is introduced into our affairs by…"

"Technology happens, it's not good, it's not bad. Is steel good or bad?"

"If GM had kept up with technology like the computer industry has, we would all be driving $25 cars that got 1000 MPG."

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

"640K ought to be enough for anybody."

"It is easier to change the specification to fit the program than vice versa."

"Be nice to geeks when you're in school, you might end-up working for one when you grow-up."

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

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

"Ever notice how fast Windows runs ? — Neither did I."

"Many people see technology as the problem behind the so-called digital divide. Others see it as the solution. Technology is neither. It must operate in conjunction with business, economic, political and social system."

"Windows isn't a virus, viruses do something."

"Macintosh computer are easy to use. It's also easy to stick your hand in a wood chipper."

"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."

"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."

"Considering the current sad state of our computer programs, software development is clearly still a black art, and cannot yet be called an engineering discipline."

"Software expands to consume all available resources."

"A program is never less than 90% complete, and never more than 95% complete."

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

"The Internet's been so great, and it's so nice to have fans do nice, elaborate websites, but I think the down side is some of the things... for real fans to go on and see that 90 percent of the…"

"I like my job because it involves learning. I like being around smart people who are trying to figure out new things. I like the fact that if people really try they can figure out how to invent things that…"

"Three things are certain: Death, taxes, and lost data. Guess which has occurred."

"Silos can't interoperate unless the technology does."

"They say if you play a Microsoft CD backwards, you hear satanic messages. Thats nothing, cause if you play it forwards, it installs Windows."

"Science is not marginal. Like art, it is a universal possession of humanity, and scientific knowledge has become a vital part of our species' repertory. It comprises what we know of the material world with reasonable certainty. . . .…"

"Within a computer natural language is unnatural."

"Technology: No Place for Wimps!"