"One does not learn computing by using a hand calculator, but one can forget arithmetic."

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

"Users truly don’t know what they want in a program until they use it."

"There are so many ways to heal. Arrogance may have a place in technology, but not in healing. I need to get out of my own way if I am to heal."

"There are three kinds of death in this world. There's heart death, there's brain death, and there's being off the network."

"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."

"Once a new technology rolls over you, if you're not part of the steamroller, you're part of the road."

"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."

"One would think that if you're anonymous, you'd do anything you want, but groups have their own sense of community and what we can do."

"One day soon the Gillette company will announce the development of a razor that, thanks to a computer microchip, can actually travel ahead in time and shave beard hairs that don't even exist yet."

"Double your drive space — delete Windows !"

"Adding programmers to a late project makes it later."

"Our business is about technology, yes. But it's also about operations and customer relationships."

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

"This is something we're very committed to, it's something that I think people are underestimating right now as they've seen some of the dot-com promises not come through. I think they're missing the fact that the basic technology is moving…"

"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."

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

"It is extremely unlikely that anyone coming out of school with a technical degree will go into one area and stay there. Today's students have to look forward to the excitement of probably having three or four careers."

"After growing wildly for years, the field of computing appears to be reaching its infancy."

"Windows NT crashed. I am the Blue Screen of Death. No one hears your screams."

"Wherever there is modularity there is the potential for misunderstanding: Hiding information implies a need to check communication."

"When someone says "I want a programming language in which I need only say what I wish done," give him a lollipop."

"Efforts to protect critical computer networks have unfortunately not kept pace with the march of technology."

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

"As technology advances, it reverses the characteristics of every situation again and again. The age of automation is going to be the age of "do it yourself"."

"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."

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

"The real problem is not whether machines think but whether men do."

"As we go forward, I hope we're going to continue to use technology to make really big differences in how people live and work."

"Well Microsoft really does develop some really interesting technology."

"Los Angeles County officials have asked that manufacturers, suppliers and contractors stop using the terms 'master' and 'slave' regarding computer hard drives, saying such terms are unacceptable and offensive. Additionally, the term 'e-mail' will now be called 'e-person letter', 'dumb…"

"Renewable energy is proven technology, the price is dropping, the rest of the world is going that way, that's where our investment should be going as well."

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

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

"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…"

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

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

"The great thing about Object Oriented code is that it can make small, simple problems look like large, complex ones."

"In all large corporations, there is a pervasive fear that someone, somewhere is having fun with a computer on company time. Networks help alleviate that fear."

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

"Over the centuries the Indians developed sign language for communicating phenomena of interest. Programmers from different tribes (FORTRAN, LISP, ALGOL, SNOBOL, etc.) could use one that doesn't require them to carry a blackboard on their ponies."

"We're responsible for the creation of the PC industry. The whole idea of compatible machines and lots of software.. that's something we brought to computing. And so it's a responsibility for us to make sure that things like security don't…"

"All programmers are playwrights and all computers are lousy actors."

"My software never has bugs. It just develops random features."

"I remember turning in my first assignment in elementary school using the computer and the teachers were kind of confused that I had printed it."

"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…"

"Technology is so much fun but we can drown in our technology. The fog of information can drive out knowledge."

"Documentation is like term insurance: It satisfies because almost no one who subscribes to it depends on its benefits."