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

"They should never have entered him in that computer. It's just common sense? that's the bottom line. I don't think it should have gotten this far."

"The only constructive theory connecting neuroscience and psychology will arise from the study of software."

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

"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."

"Science and technology revolutionize our lives, but memory, tradition and myth frame our response."

"A complex system that works is invariably found to have evolved from a simple system that worked."

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

"They've grown up with the computer, so they expect things to be faster, including cooking. They like baking by adding things to a mix. In recipes, they want fewer ingredients -- seven is ideal -- and they like step-by-step pictures…"

"It is the user who should parameterize procedures, not their creators."

"The Internet? Is that thing still around?"

"Structured Programming supports the law of the excluded muddle."

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

"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."

"Imagine if every Thursday your shoes exploded if you tied them the usual way. This happens to us all the time with computers, and nobody thinks of complaining."

"To iterate is human, to recurse divine."

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

"Why do we want intelligent terminals when there are so many stupid users ?"

"Never let a computer know you're in a hurry."

"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...…"

"Back up my hard drive? How do I put it in reverse?"

"Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic."

"All of the biggest technological inventions created by man - the airplane, the automobile, the computer - says little about his intelligence, but speaks volumes about his laziness."

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

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

"We're making a major move of the Internet, and runway. Polo.com is a natural extension of both polo.com and our collection business."

"Computers are getting smarter all the time. Scientists tell us that soon they will be able to talk to us. (And by ‘they’, I mean ‘computers’. I doubt scientists will ever be able to talk to us.)"

"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."

"Writing code has a place in the human hierarchy worth somewhere above grave robbing and beneath managing."

"To err is human--and to blame it on a computer is even more so."

"Windows 95: It's like upgrading from Reagan to Bush."

"The Internet is a great way to get on the net."

"There's a whole kind of hip element to it -- now I need this. Right smack in the middle of the 21st century, sophistication is marrying itself to a very old-fashioned notion of a table where you play games, long…"

"Chaos reigns within. Reflect, repent, and reboot. Order shall return."

"Customers are still setting the technology agenda. Not just you, our customers, but your customers as well. What more and more are telling you is what kind of services they need, and how and when they want those services delivered…"

"Yesterday it worked Today it is not working Windows is like that"

"The advance of technology is based on making it fit in so that you don't really even notice it, so it's part of everyday life."

"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."

"First learn computer science and all the theory. Next develop a programming style. Then forget all that and just hack."

"I am sometimes something of a lazy person, so when I end up spending a lot of time using something myself — as I did with Google in the earliest of days, I knew it was a big deal."

"Programming today is a race between software engineers striving to build bigger and better idiot-proof programs, and the Universe trying to produce bigger and better idiots. So far, the Universe is winning."

"If a program is useful, it will have to be changed."

"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…"

"That can be a good tax planning tool for small businesses - especially if you get a computer or something that you were planning to buy (in the coming year anyway)."

"We really care about our brand. We really want it to stand for high quality. We want people to be excited about it, for it to be fun."

"How could this be a problem in a country where we have Intel and Microsoft?"

"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."

"There are managers so preoccupied with their e-mail messages that they never look up from their screens to see what's happening in the nondigital world."