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

"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."

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

"Grove giveth and Gates taketh away."

"Looking at the proliferation of personal web pages on the net, it looks like very soon everyone on earth will have 15 Megabytes of fame."

"One good reason why computers can do more work than people is that they never have to stop and answer the phone."

"Why do we want intelligent terminals when there are so many stupid users ?"

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

"Part of the inhumanity of the computer is that, once it is competently programmed and working smoothly, it is completely honest."

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

"If I have seen further it is by standing on the shoulders of giants."

"What boots up must come down."

"If you can't make it good, at least make it look good."

"David and I and the rest of the Yahoos here really believe that the internet should remain as free as possible. At the same time we are a business and have fiscal responsibilities."

"Innovation distinguishes between a leader and a follower."

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

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

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

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

"You can try to control people, or you can try to have a system that represents reality. I find that knowing what's really happening is more important than trying to control people."

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

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

"Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic."

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

"Pixar is the most technically advanced creative company; Apple is the most creatively advanced technical company."

"Technology is a gift of God. After the gift of life it is perhaps the greatest of God's gifts. It is the mother of civilizations, of arts and of sciences."

"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."

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

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

"Food for thought: A fully-protected-and-updated Windows box cannot, by definition, have an uptime of more than 30 days."

"As we go forward, I hope we're going to continue to use technology to make really big differences in how people live and work."

"Difference between a virus and windows ? Viruses rarely fail."

"Microsoft has a new version out, Windows XP, which according to everybody is the ‘most reliable Windows ever.‘ To me, this is like saying that asparagus is ‘the most articulate vegetable ever."

"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."

"Writing code has a place in the human hierarchy worth somewhere above grave robbing and beneath managing."

"Worth noting: running 'reboot -h' does NOT produce a helpful usage message."

"The great thing about a computer notebook is that no matter how much you stuff into it, it doesn't get bigger or heavier."

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

"If the human race wants to go to hell in a basket, technology can help it get there by jet."

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

"WWW? Nice toy, but what a waste of time."

"If future generations are to remember us more with gratitude than sorrow, we must achieve more than just the miracles of technology. We must also leave them a glimpse of the world as it was created, not just as it…"

"Technology without hatred can be a blessing. Technology with hatred is always a disaster."

"A friend called me up the other day and talked about investing in a dot-com that sells lobsters. Internet lobsters. Where will this end? The next day he sent me a huge package of lobsters on ice. How low can…"

"First words on the first telephone - "Mr. Watson -- come here -- I want to see you.""

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

"PHP is a minor evil perpetrated and created by incompetent amateurs, whereas Perl is a great and insidious evil perpetrated by skilled but perverted professionals."

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