"Controlling complexity is the essence of computer programming."

"It's hard for us in our stores to be a leader in technology."

"This is a big deal. It's a fairly natural partnership; it shouldn't surprise people, ... We're working on bringing this network-is-the-computer, Net services environment."

"Computer : a million morons working at the speed of light."

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

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

"Innovation distinguishes between a leader and a follower."

"Encryption...is a powerful defensive weapon for free people. It offers a technical guarantee of privacy, regardless of who is running the government... It's hard to think of a more powerful, less dangerous tool for liberty."

"Think of it! With VLSI we can pack 100 ENIACS in 1 sq. cm."

"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."

"Just about anyone can pass if they have a home computer and are a quick study."

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

"From the time I was 7, when I purchased my first calculator, I was fascinated by the idea of a machine that could compute things."

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

"If you automate a mess, you get an automated mess."

"The best way to prepare [to be a programmer] is to write programs, and to study great programs that other people have written. In my case, I went to the garbage cans at the Computer Science Center and fished out…"

"The production of too many useful things results in too many useless people."

"The number one benefit of information technology is that it empowers people to do what they want to do. It lets people be creative. It lets people be productive. It lets people learn things they didn't think they could learn…"

"You can define advertising as the science of creating and placing media that interrupts the consumer and then gets him or her to take some action."

"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."

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

"A lot of companies have chosen to downsize, and maybe that was the right thing for them. We chose a different path. Our belief was that if we kept putting great products in front of customers, they would continue to…"

"With engineering, I view this year's failure as next year's opportunity to try it again. Failures are not something to be avoided. You want to have them happen as quickly as you can so you can make progress rapidly."

"Build a program that even a fool can use, and only a fool will want to use it."

"This is not a phone business. This is the smallest video camera, it's the smallest computer, smallest TV."

"Everything should be built top-down, except the first time."

"The only business that is ever threatened by improved technologies are those that need to be left behind."

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

"I believe that Silicon Valley is truly a place of excellence and the impact of this tiny community on the world is completely disproportionate to its size. We are the undisputed leaders of technological change. But with our abundance of…"

"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."

"Some people think technology has the answers."

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

"We're changing the world with technology."

"If your computer speaks English, it was probably made in Japan."

"MS-DOS, an OS originally designed for a microprocessor that modern kitchen appliances would sneer at."

"It has become appallingly obvious that our technology has exceeded our humanity."

"In programming, everything we do is a special case of something more general -- and often we know it too quickly."

"Early on, when software was developed by computer scientists, just people working with computers, people passed around software because that was how you got computers to do things."

"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."

"Beware of the Turing tar-pit in which everything is possible but nothing of interest is easy."

"Education makes machines which act like men and produces men who act like machines."

"Orchestras only need to be sworn at, and a German is consequently at an advantage with them, as English profanity, except in America, has not gone beyond a limited technology of perdition."

"They're growing at three to four times the personal computer market."

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

"The Internet? Is that thing still around?"

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

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

"I'm a great believer in new technology and I think new technology is very scary for newspaper companies."