"Some things Man was never meant to know. For everything else, there's Google."

"The new information technology—Internet and e-mail—have practically eliminated the physical costs of communications."

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

"Daddy, what does FORMATTING DRIVE C mean?"

"It is not a language's weakness but its strengths that control the gradient of its change: Alas, a language never escapes its embryonic sac."

"Programmers are not to be measured by their ingenuity and their logic but by the completeness of their case analysis."

"The fact that I have entered into IT-related business is proof that businesses have to evolve and keep with time. One has to re-invent continuously."

"We're only at the beginning of what we have to do here."

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

"Sometimes I think the only universal in the computing field is the fetch-execute cycle."

"Silos can't interoperate unless the technology does."

"An adequate bootstrap is a contradiction in terms."

"A computer will do what you tell it to do, but that may be much different from what you had in mind."

"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…"

"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."

"For a long time it puzzled me how something so expensive, so leading edge, could be so useless. And then it occurred to me that a computer is a stupid machine with the ability to do incredibly smart things,…"

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

"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."

"The only business that is ever threatened by improved technologies are those that need to be left behind."

"My software never has bugs. It just develops random features."

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

"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."

"Buying the right computer and getting it to work properly is no more complicated than building a nuclear reactor from wristwatch parts in a darkened room using only your teeth."

"To go forward, you must backup."

"To turn really interesting ideas and fledgling technologies into a company that can continue to innovate for years, it requires a lot of disciplines."

"If GM had kept up with technology like the computer industry has, we would all be driving $25 cars that got 1000 MPG."

"Education makes machines which act like men and produces men who act like machines."

"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."

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

"Technology is always evolving, and companies.. not just search companies.. can't be afraid to take advantage of change."

"Bill Gates is so rich because he got his wish when he said: 'I wish I had a nickel for every time a PC reboots'."

"A complex system that works is invariably found to have evolved from a simple system that worked."

"eBay's business is based on enabling someone to do business with another person, and to do that, they first have to develop some measure of trust, either in the other person or the system."

"Yesterday it worked Today it is not working Windows is like that"

"I think computer viruses should count as life. I think it says something about human nature that the only form of life we have created so far is purely destructive. We've created life in our own image."

"It is questionable if all the mechanical inventions yet made have lightened the day's toil of any human being."

"Home is where you hang your @."

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

"The real problem is not whether machines think but whether men do."

"The string is a stark data structure and everywhere it is passed there is much duplication of process. It is a perfect vehicle for hiding information."

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

"Always code as if the guy who ends up maintaining your code will be a violent psychopath who knows where you live."

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

"Any code of your own that you haven’t looked at for six or more months might as well have been written by someone else."

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

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

"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."

"Think of all the psychic energy expended in seeking a fundamental distinction between "algorithm" and "program"."