"We started putting together a "hotlist" of favorite sites from David and myself, and we called it "Jerry's Guide to the World Wide Web" Before we knew it, people from all over the world were using this database that we…"

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

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

"The best accelerator available for a Mac is one that causes it to go at 9.81 m/s2."

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

"Microsoft: "You've got questions. We've got dancing paperclips.""

"What do people mean when they say the computer went down on them?"

"WWW? Nice toy, but what a waste of time."

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

"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."

"It is a tremendous responsibility for us to have all the eyes focused on what we do and give people exactly what they need when they ask for it."

"Adapting old programs to fit new machines usually means adapting new machines to behave like old ones."

"Undetectable errors are infinite in variety, in contrast to detectable errors, which by definition are limited."

"Technology is ruled by two types of people: those who manage what they do not understand, and those who understand what they do not manage."

"Technology has the shelf life of a banana."

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

"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."

"Never before in history has innovation offered promise of so much to so many in so short a time."

"I get mail, therefore I am."

"People keep asking me what I think of it now that it's done. Hence my protest: The Web is not done!"

"The Internet is the end of civilizations, cultures, interests and ethics."

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

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

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

"Program complexity grows until it exceeds the capabilities of the programmer who must maintain it."

"The issues involved are sufficiently important that courses are now moving out of the philosophy departments and into mainstream computer science. And they affect everyone. Many of the students attracted to these courses are not technology majors, and many of…"

"First learn computer science and all the theory. Next develop a programming style. Then forget all that and just hack."

"Think"

"Is it possible that software is not like anything else, that it is meant to be discarded: that the whole point is to see it as a soap bubble?"

"They should never have entered him in that computer. It's just common sense? that's the bottom line. I don't think it should have gotten this far."

"Technology is just a tool. In terms of getting the kids working together and motivating them, the teacher is the most important."

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

"I had one simple idea about telling friends about arts and technology events. People in the community suggested everything else to us, and that's our theme. We're really run by the people who use the site. We just run the…"

"Technology is the drug of choice for most Americans. Source unknown Theory: when you have ideas. Ideology: when ideas have you."

"Artificial Intelligence: the art of making computers that behave like the ones in movies."

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

"Programmers are tools for converting caffeine into code."

"The best book on programming for the layman is "Alice in Wonderland"; but that's because it's the best book on anything for the layman."

"One man's constant is another man's variable."

"Computers are magnificent tools for the realization of our dreams, but no machine can replace the human spark of spirit, compassion, love, and understanding."

"In seeking the unattainable, simplicity only gets in the way."

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

"So many good ideas are never heard from again once they embark in a voyage on the semantic gulf."

"We will create a civilization of the Mind in Cyberspace. May it be more humane and fair than the world your governments have made before."

"Why do we want intelligent terminals when there are so many stupid users ?"

"They say if you play a Microsoft CD backwards, you hear satanic messages. Thats nothing, cause if you play it forwards, it installs Windows."

"Grove giveth and Gates taketh away."

"Controlling complexity is the essence of computer programming."