"Hey ! It compiles ! Ship it !"

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

"God never made his work for man to mend."

"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."

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

"Computers are getting smarter all the time. Scientists tell us that soon they will be able to talk to us. (And by ‘they’, I mean ‘computers’. I doubt scientists will ever be able to talk to us.)"

"If computers get too powerful, we can organize them into committees. That'll do them in."

"A language that doesn't affect the way you think about programming, is not worth knowing."

"The best way to prepare [to be a programmer] is to write programs, and to study great programs that other people have written. In my case, I went to the garbage cans at the Computer Science Center and fished out…"

"Capitalist production, therefore, develops technology, and the combining together of various processes into a social whole, only by sapping the original sources of all wealth - the soil and the labourer."

"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"."

"The lifeblood of our business is that R&D spend. There's nothing that flows through a pipe or down a wire or anything else. We have to continuously create new innovation that lets people do something they didn't think they could…"

"Technology makes it possible for people to gain control over everything, except over technology."

"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…"

"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."

"Don't have good ideas if you aren't willing to be responsible for them."

"I’ve finally learned what ‘upward compatible’ means. It means we get to keep all our old mistakes."

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

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

"I don't want to be left behind. In fact, I want to be here before the action starts."

"There's a lot of Google fascination out there and we share it, and we're going to compete, we're going to compete very, very hard."

"Competition is always a fantastic thing, and the computer industry is intensely competitive. Whether it's Google or Apple or free software, we've got some fantastic competitors and it keeps us on our toes."

"It has become appallingly obvious that our technology has exceeded our humanity."

"I am a hard-core believer that the clean desktop is the way to go... At the same time, we told OEMs that if they were going to put a bunch of icons on the desktop, then so were we."

"It's a fact that more people watch television and get their information that way than read books. I find new technology and new ways of communication very exciting and would like to do more in this field."

"There are only two industries that refer to their customers as ‘users’."

"Interfaces keep things tidy, but don't accelerate growth: Functions do."

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

"The factory of the future will have only two employees, a man and a dog. The man will be there to feed the dog. The dog will be there to keep the man from touching the equipment."

"They have computers, and they may have other weapons of mass destruction."

"Pentiums melt in your PC, not in your hand."

"You think you know when you can learn, are more sure when you can write, even more when you can teach, but certain when you can program."

"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."

"Good programmers use their brains, but good guidelines save us having to think out every case."

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

"First words on the first telephone - "Mr. Watson -- come here -- I want to see you.""

"I find sitting at a specially equipped desk in front of some pretty ugly plastics and staring at a little window is a very unnatural event."

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

"It’s really hard to design products by focus groups. A lot of times, people don’t know what they want until you show it to them."

"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."

"Writing code has a place in the human hierarchy worth somewhere above grave robbing and beneath managing."

"The research rat of the future allows experimentation without manipulation of the real world. This is the cutting edge of modeling technology."

"The first 90% of the code accounts for the first 90% of the development time. The remaining 10% of the code accounts for the other 90% of the development time."

"I like my job because it involves learning. I like being around smart people who are trying to figure out new things. I like the fact that if people really try they can figure out how to invent things that…"

"Technology is a gift of God. After the gift of life it is perhaps the greatest of God's gifts. It is the mother of civilizations, of arts and of sciences."

"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."

"Americans have the right to have their medical decisions made by them and their doctors, and not by those bureaucrats sitting behind a computer screen hundreds of miles away."

"Anyone who has lost track of time when using a computer knows the propensity to dream, the urge to make dreams come true and the tendency to miss lunch."