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

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

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

"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."

"We really care about our brand. We really want it to stand for high quality. We want people to be excited about it, for it to be fun."

"It is better to have 100 functions operate on one data structure than 10 functions on 10 data structures."

"The trouble with programmers is that you can never tell what a programmer is doing until it’s too late."

"I get Canadian porno - that's the extent of satellite service and Internet in my house."

"I can't uninstall it, there seems to be some kind of 'Uninstall Shield'."

"Our biggest demographic is the intelligent professional. They've got a computer on their desk, they've got a web browser and they check us out. We are many people's morning cup of coffee."

"A thunderstorm is God's way of saying you spend too much time in front of the computer."

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

"I get mail, therefore I am."

"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."

"Grove giveth and Gates taketh away."

"Database: the information you lose when your memory crashes."

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

"Do you realize if it weren't for Edison we'd be watching TV by candlelight?"

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

"It is the framework which changes with each new technology and not just the picture within the frame."

"The Linux philosophy is "Laugh in the face of danger". Oops. Wrong One. "Do it yourself". Yes, that's it."

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

"Think"

"If McDonalds were run like a software company, one out of every hundred Big Macs would give you food poisoning, and the response would be, ‘We’re sorry, here’s a coupon for two more."

"Windows isn't a virus, viruses do something."

"The perfect computer has been developed. You just feed in your problems and they never come out again."

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

"Often it is the means that justify the ends: Goals advance technique and technique survives even when goal structures crumble."

"For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for Nature cannot be fooled."

"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."

"This is something we're very committed to, it's something that I think people are underestimating right now as they've seen some of the dot-com promises not come through. I think they're missing the fact that the basic technology is moving…"

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

"Over the years, the U.S. economy has shown a remarkable ability to absorb shocks of all kinds, to recover, and to continue to grow. Flexible and efficient markets for labor and capital, an entrepreneurial tradition, and a general willingness to…"

"You can’t have great software without a great team, and most software teams behave like dysfunctional families."

"I believe that Silicon Valley is truly a place of excellence and the impact of this tiny community on the world is completely disproportionate to its size. We are the undisputed leaders of technological change. But with our abundance of…"

"Technology is like a fish. The longer it stays on the shelf, the less desirable it becomes."

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

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

"The most exciting breakthroughs of the 21st century will not occur because of technology but because of an expanding concept of what it means to be human."

"It is not the computer's fault that Maxwell's equations are not adequate to design the electric motor."

"Computing is not about computers any more. It is about living."

"How could this be a problem in a country where we have Intel and Microsoft?"

"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."

"Windows NT crashed. I am the Blue Screen of Death. No one hears your screams."

"First, solve the problem. Then, write the code."

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

"Two men were examining the output of the new computer in their department. After an hour or so of analyzing the data, one of them remarked: "Do you realize it would take 400 men at least 250 years to make…"

"Macintosh computer are easy to use. It's also easy to stick your hand in a wood chipper."