"Programmers are tools for converting caffeine into code."

"The cybernetic exchange between man, computer and algorithm is like a game of musical chairs: The frantic search for balance always leaves one of the three standing ill at ease."

"'Intel Inside': The world's most widely used warning label."

"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."

"This is a big deal. It's a fairly natural partnership; it shouldn't surprise people, ... We're working on bringing this network-is-the-computer, Net services environment."

"I wish life had an Undo function."

"Double your drive space — delete Windows !"

"I'm not anti-social; I'm just not user friendly."

"Saying your OS is the best in the world 'cause more people use it is like saying McDonalds makes the best food in the world."

"There are managers so preoccupied with their e-mail messages that they never look up from their screens to see what's happening in the nondigital world."

"640K ought to be enough for anybody."

"We are very much believers that the web is an open environment, and we need to make sure that people can find all kinds of different stuff through Yahoo!, and not necessarily keeping people within Yahoo!"

"Programming is like sex: one mistake and you’re providing support for a lifetime."

"The system of nature, of which man is a part, tends to be self-balancing, self-adjusting, self-cleansing. Not so with technology."

"Our business is about technology, yes. But it's also about operations and customer relationships."

"True innovation often comes from the small startup who is lean enough to launch a market but lacks the heft to own it."

"As technology advances, it reverses the characteristics of every situation again and again. The age of automation is going to be the age of "do it yourself"."

"Some say Google is God. Others say Google is Satan. But if they think Google is too powerful, remember that with search engines unlike other companies, all it takes is a single click to go to another search engine."

"Computers have lots of memory but no imagination."

"Optimism is an occupational hazard of programming; feedback is the treatment."

"Back up my hard disk ? I can't find the reverse switch !"

"Documentation is like term insurance: It satisfies because almost no one who subscribes to it depends on its benefits."

"The future masters of technology will have to be light-hearted and intelligent. The machine easily masters the grim and the dumb."

"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."

"Orchestras only need to be sworn at, and a German is consequently at an advantage with them, as English profanity, except in America, has not gone beyond a limited technology of perdition."

"Information and communications technology unlocks the value of time, allowing and enabling multi-tasking, multi-channels, multi-this and multi-that."

"The digital revolution is far more significant than the invention of writing or even of printing."

"Our mission is to organize the world's information. Clearly, the more information we have when we do a search, the better it's going to work."

"There are two ways of constructing a software design. One way is to make it so simple that there are obviously no deficiencies. And the other way is to make it so complicated that there are no obvious deficiencies."

"Life would be so much easier if we only had the source code."

"Over the centuries the Indians developed sign language for communicating phenomena of interest. Programmers from different tribes (FORTRAN, LISP, ALGOL, SNOBOL, etc.) could use one that doesn't require them to carry a blackboard on their ponies."

"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."

"Early on, when software was developed by computer scientists, just people working with computers, people passed around software because that was how you got computers to do things."

"Home is where you hang your @."

"But they are useless. They can only give you answers."

"The issues involved are sufficiently important that courses are now moving out of the philosophy departments and into mainstream computer science. And they affect everyone. Many of the students attracted to these courses are not technology majors, and many of…"

"We don’t have a traditional strategy process, planning process like you’d find in traditional technical companies. It allows Google to innovate very, very quickly, which I think is a real strength of the company."

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

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

"There are so many ways to heal. Arrogance may have a place in technology, but not in healing. I need to get out of my own way if I am to heal."

"If you have any trouble sounding condescending, find a Unix user to show you how it's done."

"A computer is like an Old Testament god, with a lot of rules and no mercy."

"After growing wildly for years, the field of computing appears to be reaching its infancy."

"What does it say about our culture that personality is now considered a technology, a tool of the trade, not only in politics but in business and the professions? Has everyone been forced to become an actor? In sixteenth century…"

"In computing, turning the obvious into the useful is a living definition of the word "frustration"."

"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."

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

"The best thing about a boolean is even if you are wrong, you are only off by a bit."