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

"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…"

"What the country needs are a few labor-making inventions."

"I’ve noticed lately that the paranoid fear of computers becoming intelligent and taking over the world has almost entirely disappeared from the common culture. Near as I can tell, this coincides with the release of MS-DOS."

"I am sometimes something of a lazy person, so when I end up spending a lot of time using something myself — as I did with Google in the earliest of days, I knew it was a big deal."

"It would take a lot of time and effort (to repair the computers). And they can't run (programs and games) kids are interested in today. They're not even on the Internet. We wouldn't be offering them much of a carrot."

"If we continue to develop our technology without wisdom or prudence, our servant may prove to be our executioner."

"Any fool can use a computer. Many do."

"In headlines today, the dreaded killfile virus spread across the country adding 'aol.com' to people's Usenet kill files everywhere. The programmer of the virus still remains anonymous, but has been nominated several times for a Nobel peace prize."

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

"Some people think technology has the answers."

"Unix is simple. It just takes a genius to understand its simplicity."

"Software expands to consume all available resources."

"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."

"Live TV died in the late 1950s, electronic bulletin boards came along in the mid-1980s, meaning there was about a 25-year gap when it was difficult to put your foot in your mouth and have people all across the country…"

"I completely love playing and designing games and always will. I am so into games that I listen to game music all day. That may sound strange, but you can guarantee I'm a hardcore gamer and would never let you…"

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

"Better to be a geek than an idiot."

"Most of you are familiar with the virtues of a programmer. There are three, of course: laziness, impatience, and hubris."

"Overall, OS/2's problems fall into two categories: IBM and Microsoft."

"The newest computer can merely compound, at speed, the oldest problem in the relations between human beings, and in the end the communicator will be confronted with the old problem, of what to say and how to say it."

"Getting Information off the Internet is like taking a drink from a fire hydrant."

"Well, another market is being created now out of Internet technology."

"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."

"A complex system that works is invariably found to have evolved from a simple system that worked."

"Many people see technology as the problem behind the so-called digital divide. Others see it as the solution. Technology is neither. It must operate in conjunction with business, economic, political and social system."

"Technology... is a queer thing. It brings you great gifts with one hand, and it stabs you in the back with the other."

"My favorite thing about the Internet is that you get to go into the private world of real creeps without having to smell them."

"The science of today is the technology of tomorrow."

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

"The insanity of the collective egoic mind, amplified by science and technology, is rapidly taking our species to the brink of disaster. Evolve or die: that is our only choice now."

"Software is like sex: It’s better when it’s free."

"The Internet is a great way to get on the net."

"Everyone has a right to a university degree in America, even if it's in Hamburger Technology."

"Yesterday it worked Today it is not working Windows is like that"

"We're changing the world with technology."

"In a world without walls and fences, who needs Windows and Gates ?"

"The medium is the message. This is merely to say that the personal and social consequences of any medium / that is, of any extension of ourselves / result from the new scale that is introduced into our affairs by…"

"One machine can do the work of fifty ordinary men. No machine can do the work of one extraordinary man."

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

"Dating a girl is just like writing software. Everything's going to work just fine in the testing lab (dating), but as soon as you have contract with a customer (marriage), then your program (life) is going to be facing new…"

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

"The computer programmer is a creator of universes for which he alone is responsible. Universes of virtually unlimited complexity can be created in the form of computer programs."

"If you don't want to be replaced by a computer, don't act like one."

"Perhaps if we wrote programs from childhood on, as adults we'd be able to read them."

"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."

"Measuring programming progress by lines of code is like measuring aircraft building progress by weight."

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