"The string is a stark data structure and everywhere it is passed there is much duplication of process. It is a perfect vehicle for hiding information."

"The first rule of any technology used in a business is that automation applied to an efficient operation will magnify the efficiency. The second is that automation applied to an inefficient operation will magnify the inefficiency."

"I get mail, therefore I am."

"In English every word can be verbed. Would that it were so in our programming languages."

"Information and communications technology unlocks the value of time, allowing and enabling multi-tasking, multi-channels, multi-this and multi-that."

"The computer is a moron."

"Computing is not about computers any more. It is about living."

"Commercial jazz, soap opera, pulp fiction, comic strips, the movies set the images, mannerisms, standards, and aims of the urban masses. In one way or another, everyone is equal before these cultural machines; like technology itself, the mass media are…"

"For a list of all the ways technology has failed to improve the quality of life, please press three."

"The computer reminds one of Lon Chaney -- it is the machine of a thousand faces."

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

"Don’t worry if it doesn’t work right. If everything did, you’d be out of a job."

"They say if you play a Microsoft CD backwards, you hear satanic messages. Thats nothing, cause if you play it forwards, it installs Windows."

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

"First we thought the PC was a calculator. Then we found out how to turn numbers into letters with ASCII — and we thought it was a typewriter. Then we discovered graphics, and we thought it was a television. With…"

"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."

"Upwards of two hundred species.. mostly of the large, slow-breeding variety.. are becoming extinct here every day because more and more of the earth's carrying capacity is systematically being converted into human carrying capacity. These species are being burnt out,…"

"The inside of a computer is as dumb as hell but it goes like mad!"

"I think there is irony in the fact that the computer is both their chief venue of communication and propaganda and also the mother of all their fears."

"My understanding is their objective is to increase their capacity for the Internet, search engines. All I know is there's a lot of computers."

"The sooner you start coding a program, the longer it will take."

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

"That’s the thing about people who think they hate computers. What they really hate is lousy programmers."

"There are two ways to write error-free programs; only the third one works."

"INSERT DISK THREE' ? But I can only get two in the drive !"

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

"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."

"Home is where you hang your @."

"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…"

"The protection of personal information stored on our nation's computer systems is critical to public trust in those networks and to the health of our economy."

"We're seeing how the videos translate to the live shows and how the technology is really reaching kids."

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

"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."

"Kids today have so many advantages I never had. There's no telling what I could've accomplished with a home computer and a handgun."

"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."

"Things should be made as simple as possible, but not any simpler."

"Never before in history has innovation offered promise of so much to so many in so short a time."

"Programmers are in a race with the Universe to create bigger and better idiot-proof programs, while the Universe is trying to create bigger and better idiots. So far the Universe is winning."

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

"Technology is a way of organizing the universe so that man doesn't have to experience it."

"Soon silence will have passed into legend. Man has turned his back on silence. Day after day he invents machines and devices that increase noise and distract humanity from the essence of life, contemplation, meditation...tooting, howling, screeching, booming,…"

"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."

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

"Some programming languages manage to absorb change, but withstand progress."

"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."

"I like my job because it involves learning. I like being around smart people who are trying to figure out new things. I like the fact that if people really try they can figure out how to invent things that…"

"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."

"Complexity kills. It sucks the life out of developers, it makes products difficult to plan, build and test, it introduces security challenges, and it causes end-user and administrator frustration."