"Our mission is to organize the world's information. Clearly, the more information we have when we do a search, the better it's going to work."

"The spoken word was the first technology by which man was able to let go of his environment in order to grasp it in a new way."

"Like punning, programming is a play on words."

"Database: the information you lose when your memory crashes."

"All of the books in the world contain no more information than is broadcast as video in a single large American city in a single year. Not all bits have equal value."

"The first rule of any technology used in a business is that automation applied to an efficient operation will magnify the efficiency. The second is that automation applied to an inefficient operation will magnify the inefficiency."

"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…"

"It is dangerously destabilizing to have half the world on the cutting edge of technology while the other half struggles on the bare edge of survival."

"Adapting old programs to fit new machines usually means adapting new machines to behave like old ones."

"Most of you are familiar with the virtues of a programmer. There are three, of course: laziness, impatience, and hubris."

"Unix was not designed to stop you from doing stupid things, because that would also stop you from doing clever things."

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

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

"Almost everybody today believes that nothing in economic history has ever moved as fast as, or had a greater impact than, the Information Revolution. But the Industrial Revolution moved at least as fast in the same time span, and had…"

"If future generations are to remember us more with gratitude than sorrow, we must achieve more than just the miracles of technology. We must also leave them a glimpse of the world as it was created, not just as it…"

"Too few people in computer science are aware of some of the informational challenges in biology and their implications for the world. We can store an incredible amount of data very cheaply."

"They have computers, and they may have other weapons of mass destruction."

"I would love to change the world, but they won't give me the source code."

"If we had a reliable way to label our toys good and bad, it would be easy to regulate technology wisely. But we can rarely see far enough ahead to know which road leads to damnation. Whoever concerns himself with…"

"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?"

"The only truly secure computer is one buried in concrete, with the power turned off and the network cable cut."

"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."

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

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

"Imagination is more important than knowledge. For knowledge is limited to all we now know and understand, while imagination embraces the entire world, and all there ever will be to know and understand."

"The medium, or process, of our time - electric technology is reshaping and restructuring patterns of social interdependence and every aspect of our personal life. It is forcing us to reconsider and re-evaluate practically every thought, every action."

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

"Early on, when software was developed by computer scientists, just people working with computers, people passed around software because that was how you got computers to do things."

"You think you know when you can learn, are more sure when you can write, even more when you can teach, but certain when you can program."

"I rigged my cellular to send a message to my PDA, which is online with my PC, to get it to activate the voicemail, which sends the message to the inbox of my email, which routes it to the PDA,…"

"The mass majority of computer users are conservative. They want to use the software they're used to using."

"It's pretty incredible to look back 30 years to when Microsoft was starting and realize how work has been transformed. We're finally getting close to what I call the digital workstyle."

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

"If we continue to develop our technology without wisdom or prudence, our servant may prove to be our executioner."

"The Internet may fairly be regarded as a never-ending worldwide conversation. The government may not, through the , interrupt that conversation... As the most participatory form of mass speech yet developed, the Internet deserves the highest protection from governmental intrusion...…"

"Education makes machines which act like men and produces men who act like machines."

"As Will Rogers would have said, "There is no such thing as a free variable.""

"AOL is like the cockroach left after the nuclear bomb hits. They know how to survive."

"It's just like a computer. The more you load up, the slower it gets, the more issues arise."

"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…"

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

"God never made his work for man to mend."

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

"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."

"One of the main causes of the fall of the Roman Empire was that–lacking zero–they had no way to indicate successful termination of their C programs."

"Upwards of two hundred species.. mostly of the large, slow-breeding variety.. are becoming extinct here every day because more and more of the earth's carrying capacity is systematically being converted into human carrying capacity. These species are being burnt out,…"

"Spending an evening on the World Wide Web is much like sitting down to a dinner of Cheetos, two hours later your fingers are yellow and you're no longer hungry, but you haven't been nourished."

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