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

"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…"

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

"Systems have sub-systems and sub-systems have sub- systems and so on ad infinitum - which is why we're always starting over."

"What does it say about our culture that personality is now considered a technology, a tool of the trade, not only in politics but in business and the professions? Has everyone been forced to become an actor? In sixteenth century…"

"Life is about family and technology."

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

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

"Capitalist production, therefore, develops technology, and the combining together of various processes into a social whole, only by sapping the original sources of all wealth - the soil and the labourer."

"The purpose of medicine is to prevent significant disease, to decrease pain and to postpone death... Technology has to support these goals-if not, it may even be counterproductive."

"Saying your OS is the best in the world 'cause more people use it is like saying McDonalds makes the best food in the world."

"Computer science education cannot make anybody an expert programmer any more than studying brushes and pigment can make somebody an expert painter."

"We kid ourselves if we think that the ratio of procedure to data in an active data-base system can be made arbitrarily small or even kept small."

"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?"

"I have gotten everything from a one-page letter written in pencil to a 50-page computer generated masterpiece."

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

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

"Not everything that can be counted counts, and not everything that counts can be counted."

"The term reboot comes from the middle age (before computers). Horses who stopped in mid-stride required a boot to the rear to start again. Thus the term to rear-boot, later abbreviated into reboot."

"Computers have lots of memory but no imagination."

"Modern technology Owes ecology An apology."

"WinNT: All the headaches of Unix, but in a pretty, windowed environment."

"I don't want to be left behind. In fact, I want to be here before the action starts."

"Computer language design is just like a stroll in the park. Jurassic Park, that is."

"Calculations which required a $20 million machine eight years ago can be done on a Mac cluster costing about $11,000."

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

"Microsoft is not the answer. Microsoft is the question. NO is the answer."

"The Internet's been so great, and it's so nice to have fans do nice, elaborate websites, but I think the down side is some of the things... for real fans to go on and see that 90 percent of the…"

"Because of its vitality, the computing field is always in desperate need of new cliches: Banality soothes our nerves."

"Re graphics: A picture is worth 10K words - but only those to describe the picture. Hardly any sets of 10K words can be adequately described with pictures."

"I need to make an okay living. The people who work for us need to. But after you make a comfortable living, how much more do you need? It's like I make a joke about nerd values, because I'm very…"

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

"Microsoft has had its success by doing low-cost products and constantly improving those products and we've really redefined the IT industry to be something that's about a tool for individuals."

"If you look at the top 20 companies of the world, 19 of them are still brick-and-mortar companies. I have nothing against tech companies. What I am saying is that if you have a car manufacturer or an oil and…"

"Computation has made the tree flower."

"This is a highly reliable power source. Being a large credit card processor, doing $6 million an hour in transactions, our computers have to work."

"COBOL programmers understand why women hate periods."

"For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for Nature cannot be fooled."

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

"One man's constant is another man's variable."

"A language that doesn't affect the way you think about programming, is not worth knowing."

"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."

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

"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…"

"The federal government is like a handicapped turtle trying to crawl around and keep up with the rabbit, which is technology."

"It makes life difficult ... because law changes very slowly. We have judges who did not grow up with computers and so many do not understand the technology and issues it raises."

"Ours is a world of nuclear giants and ethical infants. If we continue to develop our technology without wisdom or prudence, our servant may prove to be our executioner."

"The Internet? Is that thing still around?"