"The US Nuclear Security Administration runs the Blue Gene supercomputer. It is supposed to be the top super computer in the world ? and it runs on GNU Linux. Of the top 10 super computers in the world, seven run…"

"Three things are certain: Death, taxes, and lost data. Guess which has occurred."

"To err is human--and to blame it on a computer is even more so."

"David and I and the rest of the Yahoos here really believe that the internet should remain as free as possible. At the same time we are a business and have fiscal responsibilities."

"Within a computer natural language is unnatural."

"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."

"E-mail — When it absolutely, positively has to get lost at the speed of light."

"We're responsible for the creation of the PC industry. The whole idea of compatible machines and lots of software.. that's something we brought to computing. And so it's a responsibility for us to make sure that things like security don't…"

"We have the mini and the micro computer. In what semantic niche would the pico computer fall?"

"Wherever there is modularity there is the potential for misunderstanding: Hiding information implies a need to check communication."

"We live in a world ruled by fictions of every kind -- mass merchandising, advertising, politics conducted as a branch of advertising, the instant translation of science and technology into popular imagery, the increasing blurring and intermingling of identities within…"

"Renewable energy is proven technology, the price is dropping, the rest of the world is going that way, that's where our investment should be going as well."

"Home is where you hang your @."

"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'."

"In software systems, it is often the early bird that makes the worm."

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

"We're seeing how the videos translate to the live shows and how the technology is really reaching kids."

"Any given program, once deployed, is already obsolete."

"The production of too many useful things results in too many useless people."

"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."

"If the automobile had followed the same development cycle as the computer, a Rolls-Royce would today cost $100, get a million miles per gallon, and explode once a year, killing everyone inside."

"In June 1994, while it is still our hobby, we renamed it "yahoo" to stand for "yet another hierarchical officious oracle"."

"Computers have lots of memory but no imagination."

"Real programmers can write assembly code in any language."

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

"Man is the best computer we can put aboard a spacecraft... and the only one that can be mass produced with unskilled labor."

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

"Encryption...is a powerful defensive weapon for free people. It offers a technical guarantee of privacy, regardless of who is running the government... It's hard to think of a more powerful, less dangerous tool for liberty."

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

"The march of science and technology does not imply growing intellectual complexity in the lives of most people. It often means the opposite."

"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."

"That can be a good tax planning tool for small businesses - especially if you get a computer or something that you were planning to buy (in the coming year anyway)."

"You can define advertising as the science of creating and placing media that interrupts the consumer and then gets him or her to take some action."

"Prolonged contact with the computer turns mathematicians into clerks and vice versa."

"It is practically impossible to teach good programming style to students that have had prior exposure to BASIC. As potential programmers, they are mentally mutilated beyond hope of regeneration."

"A world technology means either a world government or world suicide."

"Back up my hard drive? How do I put it in reverse?"

"We have technology, finally, that for the first time in human history allows people to really maintain rich connections with much larger numbers of people."

"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."

"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,…"

"A computer lets you make more mistakes faster than any invention in human history - with the possible exceptions of handguns and tequila."

"My favorite thing about the Internet is that you get to go into the private world of real creeps without having to smell them."

"Think of it! With VLSI we can pack 100 ENIACS in 1 sq. cm."

"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."

"Microsoft has had its success by doing low-cost products and constantly improving those products and we've really redefined the IT industry to be something that's about a tool for individuals."

"In software, we rarely have meaningful requirements. Even if we do, the only measure of success that matters is whether our solution solves the customer’s shifting idea of what their problem is."

"No matter how slick the demo is in rehearsal, when you do it in front of a live audience, the probability of a flawless presentation is inversely proportional to the number of people watching, raised to the power of the…"

"The Internet may fairly be regarded as a never-ending worldwide conversation. The government may not, through the , interrupt that conversation... As the most participatory form of mass speech yet developed, the Internet deserves the highest protection from governmental intrusion...…"