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

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

"The greatest danger in modern technology isn't that machines will begin to think like people, but that people will begin to think like machines."

"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."

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

"Technology has the shelf life of a banana."

"Giving up on assembly language was the apple in our Garden of Eden: Languages whose use squanders machine cycles are sinful. The LISP machine now permits LISP programmers to abandon bra and fig-leaf."

"It is only when they go wrong that machines remind you how powerful they are."

"As soon as we started programming, we found to our surprise that it wasn’t as easy to get programs right as we had thought. Debugging had to be discovered. I can remember the exact instant when I realized…"

"What the country needs are a few labor-making inventions."

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

"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."

"Computers, huh? I've heard it all boils down to just a bunch of ones and zeroes.... I don't know how that enables me to see naked women, but however it works, God bless you guys."

"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."

"When music technology takes the place of musicianship, it's time to pull the plug."

"Software suppliers are trying to make their software packages more ‘user-friendly’… Their best approach so far has been to take all the old brochures and stamp the words ‘user-friendly’ on the cover."

"Think of it! With VLSI we can pack 100 ENIACS in 1 sq. cm."

"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."

"The attention span of a computer is only as long as its electrical cord."

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

"Steve Jobs may have the apple, but Bill Gates has the entire orchard !"

"Everybody who runs a Web site knows we're not assured of compatibility."

"The protection of personal information stored on our nation's computer systems is critical to public trust in those networks and to the health of our economy."

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

"In computing, turning the obvious into the useful is a living definition of the word "frustration"."

"The telephone wire, as we know it, has become too slow and too small to handle Internet traffic. It took 75 years for telephones to be used by 50 million customers, but it took only four years for the Internet…"

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

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

"C++ : Where friends have access to your private members."

"If we believe in data structures, we must believe in independent (hence simultaneous) processing. For why else would we collect items within a structure? Why do we tolerate languages that give us the one without the other?"

"A world technology means either a world government or world suicide."

"The string is a stark data structure and everywhere it is passed there is much duplication of process. It is a perfect vehicle for hiding information."

"Ours is a world of nuclear giants and ethical infants. If we continue to develop our technology without wisdom or prudence, our servant may prove to be our executioner."

"Computers are like bikinis. They save people a lot of guesswork."

"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 production of too many useful things results in too many useless people."

"Good code is its own best documentation."

"I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination. Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world."

"If debugging is the process of removing bugs, then programming must be the process of putting them in."

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

"It is better to have 100 functions operate on one data structure than 10 functions on 10 data structures."

"In computing, invariants are ephemeral."

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

"Hardware: where the people in your company's software section will tell you the problem is. Software: where the people in your company's hardware section will tell you the problem is."

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

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

"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."

"There is so much media now with the Internet and people, and so easy and so cheap to start a newspaper or start a magazine, there’s just millions of voices and people want to be heard."