"If you don't double-click me, I can't do anything."

"To create a new standard it takes something that's not just a little bit different. It takes something that's really new and really captures people's imagination. And the Macintosh, of all the machines I've ever seen, is the only one…"

"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."

"America's technology has turned in upon itself; its corporate form makes it the servant of profits, not the servant of human needs."

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

"Every program is a part of some other program and rarely fits."

"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."

"So many good ideas are never heard from again once they embark in a voyage on the semantic gulf."

"With engineering, I view this year's failure as next year's opportunity to try it again. Failures are not something to be avoided. You want to have them happen as quickly as you can so you can make progress rapidly."

"Computer science education cannot make anybody an expert programmer any more than studying brushes and pigment can make somebody an expert painter."

"Results eventually reach a point at which a finer mesh no longer yields an appreciable difference. This type of convergence study helps generate accurate solutions with meshes that are sufficiently dense and yet not overly demanding of computer resources."

"The number one benefit of information technology is that it empowers people to do what they want to do. It lets people be creative. It lets people be productive. It lets people learn things they didn't think they could learn…"

"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…"

"I have gotten everything from a one-page letter written in pencil to a 50-page computer generated masterpiece."

"I rigged my cellular to send a message to my PDA, which is online with my PC, to get it to activate the voicemail, which sends the message to the inbox of my email, which routes it to the PDA,…"

"Be nice to geeks when you're in school, you might end-up working for one when you grow-up."

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

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

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

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

"Apparently, Windows 98 is going to be renamed 'Diana, Princess of Windows'. It's overrated, overpriced, consumes loads of resources and crashes spectacularly..."

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

"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."

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

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

"It was a pivotal moment in the history of computers and the history of advertising."

"I would love to change the world, but they won't give me the source code."

"One can only display complex information in the mind. Like seeing, movement or flow or alteration of view is more important than the static picture, no matter how lovely."

"If Unix is the face of the future I want to go back to quill pens."

"I think it's fair to say that personal computers have become the most empowering tool we've ever created. They're tools of communication, they're tools of creativity, and they can be shaped by their user."

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

"They've grown up with the computer, so they expect things to be faster, including cooking. They like baking by adding things to a mix. In recipes, they want fewer ingredients -- seven is ideal -- and they like step-by-step pictures…"

"Because of its vitality, the computing field is always in desperate need of new cliches: Banality soothes our nerves."

"Windows 95: It's like upgrading from Reagan to Bush."

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

"I see no progress in this industry. These clocks are no faster than the ones they made a hundred years ago."

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

"We kid ourselves if we think that the ratio of procedure to data in an active data-base system can be made arbitrarily small or even kept small."

"Computers in the future may have only 1,000 vacuum tubes and perhapsonly weigh 1 1/2 tons."

"Though the Chinese should adore APL, it's FORTRAN they put their money on."

"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."

"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…"

"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…"

"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…"

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

"Advances in computer technology and the Internet have changed the way America works, learns, and communicates. The Internet has become an integral part of America's economic, political, and social life."

"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."