"The only problem with Microsoft is they just have no taste. They have absolutely no taste. And I don’t mean that in a small way, I mean that in a big way, in the sense that they don’t think of…"

"The computer is the ultimate polluter: its feces are indistinguish- able from the food it produces."

"We are on the verge: Today our program proved Fermat's next-to-last theorem."

"Ooops. My brain just hit a bad sector."

"The greatest danger in modern technology isn't that machines will begin to think like people, but that people will begin to think like machines."

"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 you can't make it good, at least make it look good."

"A distributed system is one in which the failure of a computer you didn't even know existed can render your own computer unusable."

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

"Once you understand how to write a program get someone else to write it."

"As soon as we started programming, we found to our surprise that it wasn’t as easy to get programs right as we had thought. Debugging had to be discovered. I can remember the exact instant when I realized…"

"Computers are like bikinis. They save people a lot of guesswork."

"I get mail, therefore I am."

"Things should be made as simple as possible, but not any simpler."

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

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

"Technology innovation is starting to explode and having open-source material out there really helps this explosion. You get students and researchers involved and you get people coming through and building start ups based on open source products."

"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."

"For systems, the analogue of a face-lift is to add to the control graph an edge that creates a cycle, not just an additional node."

"Programming is an unnatural act."

"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."

"If two people write exactly the same program, each should be put into microcode and then they certainly won't be the same."

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

"Computer Science is no more about computers than astronomy is about telescopes."

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

"One of the main causes of the fall of the Roman Empire was that–lacking zero–they had no way to indicate successful termination of their C programs."

"There used to be this country called the Soviet Union; it's not there anymore. Our technology was better than theirs."

"The Internet's been so great, and it's so nice to have fans do nice, elaborate websites, but I think the down side is some of the things... for real fans to go on and see that 90 percent of the…"

"It was never clear that it wouldn't just stop (the WWW). Any time during that exponential growth, it could have stalled. I think we were never very confident until 1993."

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

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

"Computers are like air conditioners: they stop working when you open windows."

"I am sometimes something of a lazy person, so when I end up spending a lot of time using something myself — as I did with Google in the earliest of days, I knew it was a big deal."

"There are broken toilets left there, old computers and miscellaneous garbage. They are totally unsupervised. The recycling company is good, but when people want to dump trash, they dump trash."

"Microsoft is now talking about the digital nervous system... I guess I would be nervous if my system was built on their technology too."

"MS-DOS, an OS originally designed for a microprocessor that modern kitchen appliances would sneer at."

"The computer is the most extraordinary of man's technological clothing; it's an extension of our central nervous system. Beside it, the wheel is a mere hula-hoop."

"Customers are still setting the technology agenda. Not just you, our customers, but your customers as well. What more and more are telling you is what kind of services they need, and how and when they want those services delivered…"

"Unix is user-friendly. It's just very selective about who its friends are."

"Grove giveth and Gates taketh away."

"The difference between e-mail and regular mail is that computers handle e-mail, and computers never decide to come to work one day and shoot all the other computers."

"Software expands to consume all available resources."

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

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

"Every day were saying, 'How can we keep this customer happy?' How can we get ahead in innovation by doing this, because if we don't, somebody else will."

"A good system can't have a weak command language."

"AOL is like the cockroach left after the nuclear bomb hits. They know how to survive."

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