"Simplicity does not precede complexity, but follows it."

"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."

"The number one benefit of information technology is that it empowers people to do what they want to do. It lets people be creative. It lets people be productive. It lets people learn things they didn't think they could learn…"

"Everything should be built top-down, except the first time."

"From then on, when anything went wrong with a computer, we said it had bugs in it."

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

"I just the other day got, an internet was sent by my staff at 10 o'clock in the morning on Friday and I just got it yesterday. Why ? Because it got tangled up with all these things going on…"

"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."

"It is easier to write an incorrect program than understand a correct one."

"Interfaces keep things tidy, but don't accelerate growth: Functions do."

"Computers are like Old Testament gods; lots of rules and no mercy."

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

"There's a lot that can be done for people who are using technology in a better way."

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

"Undetectable errors are infinite in variety, in contrast to detectable errors, which by definition are limited."

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

"We've all heard that a million monkeys banging on a million typewriters will eventually reproduce the entire works of Shakespeare. Now, thanks to the Internet, we know this is not true."

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

"Anyone who spends their life on a computer is pretty unusual."

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

"Man is the best computer we can put aboard a spacecraft... and the only one that can be mass produced with unskilled labor."

"I get Canadian porno - that's the extent of satellite service and Internet in my house."

"Unix is simple. It just takes a genius to understand its simplicity."

"Inside every small program is a large program struggling to get out."

"Every day were saying, 'How can we keep this customer happy?' How can we get ahead in innovation by doing this, because if we don't, somebody else will."

"Two men were examining the output of the new computer in their department. After an hour or so of analyzing the data, one of them remarked: "Do you realize it would take 400 men at least 250 years to make…"

"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."

"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."

"If your computer speaks English, it was probably made in Japan."

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

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

"It's not that we use technology, we live technology."

"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."

"Software expands to consume all available resources."

"The perfect computer has been developed. You just feed in your problems and they never come out again."

"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 will never become a truly paper-less society until the Palm Pilot folks come out with WipeMe 1.0."

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

"Today is a... digital incarnation of Oz - the Internet - we are a motley group of fools from lions to scarecrows, learning from each other, making and taking responsibility for our decisions, and having fun as we skip down…"

"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."

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

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

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

"Hacking is like sex. You get in, you get out, and hope that you didn't leave something that can be traced back to you."

"The US Nuclear Security Administration runs the Blue Gene supercomputer. It is supposed to be the top super computer in the world ? and it runs on GNU Linux. Of the top 10 super computers in the world, seven run…"

"Style used to be an interaction between the human soul and tools that were limiting. In the digital era, it will have to come from the soul alone."

"But they are useless. They can only give you answers."

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