"If a program manipulates a large amount of data, it does so in a small number of ways."

"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."

"Programming is an unnatural act."

"The best programmers are not marginally better than merely good ones. They are an order-of-magnitude better, measured by whatever standard: conceptual creativity, speed, ingenuity of design, or problem-solving ability."

"Technology: No Place for Wimps!"

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

"Simplicity does not precede complexity, but follows it."

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

"Western society has accepted as unquestionable a technological imperative that is quite as arbitrary as the most primitive taboo: not merely the duty to foster invention and constantly to create technological novelties, but equally the duty to surrender to…"

"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."

"We are on the verge: Today our program proved Fermat's next-to-last theorem."

"When we write programs that "learn", it turns out that we do and they don't."

"Real programmers can write assembly code in any language."

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

"The modern computer hovers between the obsolescent and the nonexistent."

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

"The telephone wire, as we know it, has become too slow and too small to handle Internet traffic. It took 75 years for telephones to be used by 50 million customers, but it took only four years for the Internet…"

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

"If you give someone a program, you will frustrate them for a day; if you teach them how to program, you will frustrate them for a lifetime."

"I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination. Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world."

"Debugging is twice as hard as writing the code in the first place. Therefore, if you write the code as cleverly as possible, you are–by definition–not smart enough to debug it."

"It's pretty incredible to look back 30 years to when Microsoft was starting and realize how work has been transformed. We're finally getting close to what I call the digital workstyle."

"Not until a program has been in production for at least six months will its most harmful error be discovered."

"Bill Gates is the pope of the personal computer industry. He decides who's going to build."

"Windows NT crashed. I am the Blue Screen of Death. No one hears your screams."

"I had one simple idea about telling friends about arts and technology events. People in the community suggested everything else to us, and that's our theme. We're really run by the people who use the site. We just run the…"

"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 probability of a flawless demo is inversely proportional to the number of people watching, raised to the power of the amount of money involved."

"Computer Science is embarrassed by the computer."

"It’s ridiculous to live 100 years and only be able to remember 30 million bytes. You know, less than a compact disc. The human condition is really becoming more obsolete every minute."

"In computing, invariants are ephemeral."

"I hope that the internet will get to become ubiquitous and affordable, and if that's achieved, I think it'll be a big part of people's lives - for the better."

"To better understand why you need a personal computer, let's take a look at the pathetic mess you call your life."

"Anyone who has lost track of time when using a computer knows the propensity to dream, the urge to make dreams come true and the tendency to miss lunch."

"Software is under a constant tension. Being symbolic it is arbitrarily perfectible; but also it is arbitrarily changeable."

"Ever notice how fast Windows runs ? — Neither did I."

"Come to think of it, there are already a million monkeys on a million typewriters, and Usenet is nothing like Shakespeare."

"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…"

"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."

"The use of a program to prove the 4-color theorem will not change mathematics - it merely demonstrates that the theorem, a challenge for a century, is probably not important to mathematics."

"I want people to understand the amazing, positive way our software can make leisure time more enjoyable, and work and businesses more successful."

"Undetectable errors are infinite in variety, in contrast to detectable errors, which by definition are limited."

"My computer must be broken: whenever I ask a wrong question, it gives a wrong answer."

"In all large corporations, there is a pervasive fear that someone, somewhere is having fun with a computer on company time. Networks help alleviate that fear."

"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…"

"I think if you do something and it turns out pretty good, then you should go do something else wonderful, not dwell on it for too long. Just figure out what’s next."

"A programming language is low level when its programs require attention to the irrelevant."

"There are only two kinds of programming languages: those people always bitch about and those nobody uses."