"[Smart] is an elusive concept. There's a certain sharpness, an ability to absorb new facts. To ask an insightful question. To relate to domains that may not seem connected at first. A certain creativity that allows people to be effective."

"There's no set architecture in Linux. All roads lead to madness."

"Only ten percent of the code in any given program will ever execute."

"If brute force doesn't solve your problems, then you aren't using enough."

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

"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…"

"There's a whole kind of hip element to it -- now I need this. Right smack in the middle of the 21st century, sophistication is marrying itself to a very old-fashioned notion of a table where you play games, long…"

"Imagine a school with children that can read or write, but with teachers who cannot, and you have a metaphor of the Information Age in which we live."

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

"Microsoft is not the answer. Microsoft is the question. NO is the answer."

"A great lathe operator commands several times the wage of an average lathe operator, but a great writer of software code is worth 10,000 times the price of an average software writer."

"Software expands to consume all available resources."

"First and foremost, the Internet is unique since it is THE only interactive medium -- and that's important because from a content, service, and communications perspective, we web folks try to take advantage of that interactivity."

"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."

"Technology innovation is starting to explode and having open-source material out there really helps this explosion. You get students and researchers involved and you get people coming through and building start ups based on open source products."

"Web users ultimately want to get at data quickly and easily. They don't care as much about attractive sites and pretty design."

"All of the biggest technological inventions created by man - the airplane, the automobile, the computer - says little about his intelligence, but speaks volumes about his laziness."

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

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

"The city’s central computer told you? R2D2, you know better than to trust a strange computer!"

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

"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."

"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,…"

"Five years ago, we thought of the Web as a new medium, not a new economy."

"Computers, huh? I've heard it all boils down to just a bunch of ones and zeroes.... I don't know how that enables me to see naked women, but however it works, God bless you guys."

"Steve Jobs may have the apple, but Bill Gates has the entire orchard !"

"If we had had the right technology back then, you would have seen Eva Braun on the Donahue show and Adolf Hitler on Meet the Press."

"I wish life had an Undo function."

"Spending an evening on the World Wide Web is much like sitting down to a dinner of Cheetos, two hours later your fingers are yellow and you're no longer hungry, but you haven't been nourished."

"To err is human, but to really foul things up requires a computer."

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

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

"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."

"C++ : Where friends have access to your private members."

"A program is never less than 90% complete, and never more than 95% complete."

"Computers are useless. They can only give you answers."

"Build a program that even a fool can use, and only a fool will want to use it."

"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."

"Technology is not an image of the world but a way of operating on reality. The nihilism of technology lies not only in the fact that it is the most perfect expression of the will to power... but also in…"

"The interesting thing is when we design and architect a server, we don't design it for Windows or Linux, we design it for both. We don't really care, as long as we're selling the one the customer wants."

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

"There are three kinds of death in this world. There's heart death, there's brain death, and there's being off the network."

"The attention span of a computer is only as long as its electrical cord."

"I think Microsoft named .Net so it wouldn’t show up in a Unix directory listing."

"I need to make an okay living. The people who work for us need to. But after you make a comfortable living, how much more do you need? It's like I make a joke about nerd values, because I'm very…"

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

"I do not fear computers. I fear the lack of them."

"I had a fortune cookie the other day and it said: 'Outlook not so good'. I said: 'Sure, but Microsoft ships it anyway'."