"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."

"I remember the difficulty we had in the beginning replacing magnetic cores in memories and eventually we had both cost and performance advantages. But it wasn't at all clear in the beginning."

"Technology is not an image of the world but a way of operating on reality. The nihilism of technology lies not only in the fact that it is the most perfect expression of the will to power... but also in…"

"The technologies which have had the most profound effects on human life are usually simple."

"It is easier to change the specification to fit the program than vice versa."

"Hey ! It compiles ! Ship it !"

"If at first you don't succeed; call it version 1.0."

"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."

"Technological progress has merely provided us with more efficient means for going backwards."

"The fact that I have entered into IT-related business is proof that businesses have to evolve and keep with time. One has to re-invent continuously."

"I see no progress in this industry. These clocks are no faster than the ones they made a hundred years ago."

"A Windows user spends 1/3 of his life sleeping, 1/3 working, 1/3 waiting."

"Think"

"Technology does not drive change -- it enables change."

"Perhaps if we wrote programs from childhood on, as adults we'd be able to read them."

"Programmers are tools for converting caffeine into code."

"Be nice to nerds. Chances are you'll end up working for one."

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

"When music technology takes the place of musicianship, it's time to pull the plug."

"Within a computer natural language is unnatural."

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

"A distributed system is one in which the failure of a computer you didn't even know existed can render your own computer unusable."

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

"The Star Trek computer doesn't seem that interesting. They ask it random questions, it thinks for a while. I think we can do better than that."

"A computer will do what you tell it to do, but that may be much different from what you had in mind."

"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)."

"Technology makes it possible for people to gain control over everything, except over technology."

"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."

"Any code of your own that you haven’t looked at for six or more months might as well have been written by someone else."

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

"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."

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

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

"MS-DOS isn't dead, it just smells that way."

"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."

"Everybody who runs a Web site knows we're not assured of compatibility."

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

"Software expands to consume all available resources."

"Computers can figure out all kinds of problems, except the things in the world that just don't add up."

"There's no set architecture in Linux. All roads lead to madness."

"Computers make it easier to do a lot of things, but most of the things they make it easier to do don't need to be done."

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

"Technological progress is like an axe in the hands of a pathological criminal."

"The best accelerator available for a Mac is one that causes it to go at 9.81 m/s2."

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

"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…"

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

"The debate rages on: is PL/I Bachtrian or Dromedary?"