"That’s what’s cool about working with computers. They don’t argue, they remember everything, and they don’t drink all your beer."

"A hacker on a roll may be able to produce–in a period of a few months–something that a small development group (say, 7-8 people) would have a hard time getting together over a year. IBM used to report that…"

"Dating a girl is just like writing software. Everything's going to work just fine in the testing lab (dating), but as soon as you have contract with a customer (marriage), then your program (life) is going to be facing new…"

"Microsoft has a new version out, Windows XP, which according to everybody is the ‘most reliable Windows ever.‘ To me, this is like saying that asparagus is ‘the most articulate vegetable ever."

"Software companies should take more responsibility for security holes, especially in browsers and e-mail clients. There are some straightforward things the industry should be doing right now to fix things, and I don't know why they haven't been done yet."

"First words on the first telephone - "Mr. Watson -- come here -- I want to see you.""

"If a program is useless, it will have to be documented."

"First, solve the problem. Then, write the code."

"I am a hard-core believer that the clean desktop is the way to go... At the same time, we told OEMs that if they were going to put a bunch of icons on the desktop, then so were we."

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

"I used to think that cyberspace was fifty years away. What I thought was fifty years away, was only ten years away. And what I thought was ten years away... it was already here. I just wasn't aware of it…"

"A programmer is a person who passes as an exacting expert on the basis of being able to turn out, after innumerable punching, an infinite series of incomprehensive answers calculated with micrometric precisions from vague assumptions based on debatable figures…"

"[Smart] is an elusive concept. There's a certain sharpness, an ability to absorb new facts. To ask an insightful question. To relate to domains that may not seem connected at first. A certain creativity that allows people to be effective."

"In the long run every program becomes rococo - then rubble."

"It’s really hard to design products by focus groups. A lot of times, people don’t know what they want until you show it to them."

"The technology at the leading edge changes so rapidly that you have to keep current after you get out of school. I think probably the most important thing is having good fundamentals."

"We've arranged a civilization in which most crucial elements profoundly depend on science and technology."

"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…"

"Part of the inhumanity of the computer is that, once it is competently programmed and working smoothly, it is completely honest."

"Americans have the right to have their medical decisions made by them and their doctors, and not by those bureaucrats sitting behind a computer screen hundreds of miles away."

"The eleventh commandment was "Thou Shalt Compute" or "Thou Shalt Not Compute" - I forget which."

"If you don't double-click me, I can't do anything."

"Any given program, once deployed, is already obsolete."

"Programmers are tools for converting caffeine into code."

"Complexity kills. It sucks the life out of developers, it makes products difficult to plan, build and test, it introduces security challenges, and it causes end-user and administrator frustration."

"The insanity of the collective egoic mind, amplified by science and technology, is rapidly taking our species to the brink of disaster. Evolve or die: that is our only choice now."

"It is not a language's weakness but its strengths that control the gradient of its change: Alas, a language never escapes its embryonic sac."

"I do not fear computers. I fear the lack of them."

"The newest computer can merely compound, at speed, the oldest problem in the relations between human beings, and in the end the communicator will be confronted with the old problem, of what to say and how to say it."

"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…"

"Over the years, the U.S. economy has shown a remarkable ability to absorb shocks of all kinds, to recover, and to continue to grow. Flexible and efficient markets for labor and capital, an entrepreneurial tradition, and a general willingness to…"

"If computers had invented humans as part of a BI program (biological intelligence), humans would have been tossed aside as barely having achieved perfect game play at Tic-Tac-Toe."

"Modern technology Owes ecology An apology."

"It is a commonplace of modern technology that problems have solutions before there is knowledge of how they are to be solved."

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

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

"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."

"Computers in the future may have only 1,000 vacuum tubes and perhapsonly weigh 1 1/2 tons."

"Imagine a school with children that can read or write, but with teachers who cannot, and you have a metaphor of the Information Age in which we live."

"Some things Man was never meant to know. For everything else, there's Google."

"SUPERCOMPUTER: what it sounded like before you bought it."

"Computer Science is embarrassed by the computer."

"Do you realize if it weren't for Edison we'd be watching TV by candlelight?"

"If you have a procedure with ten parameters, you probably missed some."

"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."

"Motto for a research laboratory: What we work on today, others will first think of tomorrow."

"People always fear change. People feared electricity when it was invented, didn't they? People feared coal, they feared gas-powered engines... There will always be ignorance, and ignorance leads to fear. But with time, people will come to accept their silicon…"

"The digital revolution is far more significant than the invention of writing or even of printing."