"Dating a girl is just like writing software. Everything's going to work just fine in the testing lab (dating), but as soon as you have contract with a customer (marriage), then your program (life) is going to be facing new…"

"Part of the inhumanity of the computer is that, once it is competently programmed and working smoothly, it is completely honest."

"To iterate is human, to recurse divine."

"Technology presumes there's just one right way to do things and there never is."

"There’s an old story about the person who wished his computer were as easy to use as his telephone. That wish has come true, since I no longer know how to use my telephone."

"Computers have lots of memory but no imagination."

"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."

"If your computer speaks English, it was probably made in Japan."

"We're making a major move of the Internet, and runway. Polo.com is a natural extension of both polo.com and our collection business."

"There's a whole kind of hip element to it -- now I need this. Right smack in the middle of the 21st century, sophistication is marrying itself to a very old-fashioned notion of a table where you play games, long…"

"There are only two kinds of programming languages: those people always bitch about and those nobody uses."

"People say Microsoft paid $14M for using the Rolling Stones song 'Start me up' in their commercials. This is wrong. Microsoft payed $14M only for a part of the song. For instance, they didn't use the line 'You'll make a…"

"It would take a lot of time and effort (to repair the computers). And they can't run (programs and games) kids are interested in today. They're not even on the Internet. We wouldn't be offering them much of a carrot."

"Technology: No Place for Wimps!"

"Technological progress is like an axe in the hands of a pathological criminal."

"I rigged my cellular to send a message to my PDA, which is online with my PC, to get it to activate the voicemail, which sends the message to the inbox of my email, which routes it to the PDA,…"

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

"Soon silence will have passed into legend. Man has turned his back on silence. Day after day he invents machines and devices that increase noise and distract humanity from the essence of life, contemplation, meditation...tooting, howling, screeching, booming,…"

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

"Programmers are tools for converting caffeine into code."

"It is not about bits, bytes and protocols, but profits, losses and margins."

"The Internet is not just one thing, it's a collection of things - of numerous communications networks that all speak the same digital language."

"A lot of companies have chosen to downsize, and maybe that was the right thing for them. We chose a different path. Our belief was that if we kept putting great products in front of customers, they would continue to…"

"Technology happens, it's not good, it's not bad. Is steel good or bad?"

"Think"

"Technology is not an image of the world but a way of operating on reality. The nihilism of technology lies not only in the fact that it is the most perfect expression of the will to power... but also in…"

"I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination. Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world."

"Pentiums melt in your PC, not in your hand."

"The Internet is becoming the town square for the global village of tomorrow."

"Be nice to geeks when you're in school, you might end-up working for one when you grow-up."

"Programming today is a race between software engineers striving to build bigger and better idiot-proof programs, and the Universe trying to produce bigger and better idiots. So far, the Universe is winning."

"Re graphics: A picture is worth 10K words - but only those to describe the picture. Hardly any sets of 10K words can be adequately described with pictures."

"It is dangerously destabilizing to have half the world on the cutting edge of technology while the other half struggles on the bare edge of survival."

"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."

"In view of all the deadly computer viruses that have been spreading lately, Weekend Update would like to remind you: when you link up to another computer, you're linking up to every computer that that computer has ever linked up…"

"From the time I was 7, when I purchased my first calculator, I was fascinated by the idea of a machine that could compute things."

"Science and technology revolutionize our lives, but memory, tradition and myth frame our response."

"The Internet is like a giant jellyfish. You can't step on it. You can't go around it. You've got to get through it."

"Technology is so much fun but we can drown in our technology. The fog of information can drive out knowledge."

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

"Like punning, programming is a play on words."

"The great thing about a computer notebook is that no matter how much you stuff into it, it doesn't get bigger or heavier."

"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…"

"I think there is irony in the fact that the computer is both their chief venue of communication and propaganda and also the mother of all their fears."

"The most important computer is the one that rages in our skulls and ever seeks that satisfactory external emulator. The standarization of real computers would be a disaster - and so it probably won't happen."

"Bringing computers into the home won't change either one, but may revitalize the corner saloon."

"I find sitting at a specially equipped desk in front of some pretty ugly plastics and staring at a little window is a very unnatural event."

"Technology makes the world a new place."