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

"We will never become a truly paper-less society until the Palm Pilot folks come out with WipeMe 1.0."

"Make no mistake about it: Computers process numbers - not symbols. We measure our understanding (and control) by the extent to which we can arithmetize an activity."

"We're responsible for the creation of the PC industry. The whole idea of compatible machines and lots of software.. that's something we brought to computing. And so it's a responsibility for us to make sure that things like security don't…"

"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."

"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…"

"Do you realize if it weren't for Edison we'd be watching TV by candlelight?"

"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…"

"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."

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

"Unix was not designed to stop you from doing stupid things, because that would also stop you from doing clever things."

"Part of our brand is that we're pretty understated in what we do. If you look at other technology companies, they might preannounce things, and it will be a couple years before they really happen, and they don't happen in…"

"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."

"Bill Gates is so rich because he got his wish when he said: 'I wish I had a nickel for every time a PC reboots'."

"If google made $1 everytime someone used them to find an answer to a tech support question, they would own microsoft."

"A programmer is a person who passes as an exacting expert on the basis of being able to turn out, after innumerable punching, an infinite series of incomprehensive answers calculated with micrometric precisions from vague assumptions based on debatable figures…"

"There was a time when nails were high-tech. There was a time when people had to be told how to use a telephone. Technology is just a tool. People use tools to improve their lives."

"A computer makes it possible to do, in half an hour, tasks which were completely unnecessary to do before."

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

"There is some confusion because we only recently began our marketing. We're in an era were people need to think about business processes and applications horizontally...We need to think of the enterprise not as an island of stand-alone technology."

"I have to say I was a bit shocked to see myself on the cover (TIME magazine). It's really not my style since Yahoo! is something built by a lot more people than just me.."

"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."

"A hacker on a roll may be able to produce–in a period of a few months–something that a small development group (say, 7-8 people) would have a hard time getting together over a year. IBM used to report that…"

"There is no programming language–no matter how structured–that will prevent programmers from making bad programs."

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

"I can't uninstall it, there seems to be some kind of 'Uninstall Shield'."

"We have yet to see the full impact of the open, global marketplace. By 1997 all raw materials and technology will be available everywhere in the world. The only differences between countries and markets will be skill levels, education, and…"

"If the automobile had followed the same development cycle as the computer, a Rolls-Royce would today cost $100, get a million miles per gallon, and explode once a year, killing everyone inside."

"The more I C, the less I see."

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

"It is better to have 100 functions operate on one data structure than 10 functions on 10 data structures."

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

"As network administrator I can take down the network with one keystroke. It's just like being a doctor but without getting gooky stuff on my paws."

"A program is a spell cast over a computer, turning input into error messages."

"Innovation distinguishes between a leader and a follower."

"There is a chasm of carbon and silicon the software can't bridge."

"Mac users swear by their computers. PC users swear at their computers."

"Computer Science is no more about computers than astronomy is about telescopes."

"The computer is a moron."

"Technology makes the world a new place."

"Look at growth, look at how much time people spend on the Net and look at the variety of things that they are doing. It's all really good, so I am actually encouraged by the fundamentals that underlie usage growth…"

"Functions delay binding; data structures induce binding. Moral: Structure data late in the programming process."

"Technology is so much fun but we can drown in our technology. The fog of information can drive out knowledge."

"Fifty years of programming language research, and we end up with C++?"

"Get into a rut early: Do the same process the same way. Accumulate idioms. Standardize. The only difference(!) between Shakespeare and you was the size of his idiom list - not the size of his vocabulary."

"The difference between e-mail and regular mail is that computers handle e-mail, and computers never decide to come to work one day and shoot all the other computers."

"Over time, it's becoming more and more understood by people that we're acting in their interests. And that's a very, very powerful thing for our brand."

"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."