"Grove giveth and Gates taketh away."

"Everyone has a right to a university degree in America, even if it's in Hamburger Technology."

"The computer programmer is a creator of universes for which he alone is responsible. Universes of virtually unlimited complexity can be created in the form of computer programs."

"Imagine if every Thursday your shoes exploded if you tied them the usual way. This happens to us all the time with computers, and nobody thinks of complaining."

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

"I would love to change the world, but they won't give me the source code."

"Computer : a million morons working at the speed of light."

"There are two ways of constructing a software design. One way is to make it so simple that there are obviously no deficiencies. And the other way is to make it so complicated that there are no obvious deficiencies."

"Life is about family and technology."

"An adequate bootstrap is a contradiction in terms."

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

"Computers in the future may have only 1,000 vacuum tubes and perhapsonly weigh 1 1/2 tons."

"As technology advances, it reverses the characteristics of every situation again and again. The age of automation is going to be the age of "do it yourself"."

"Computers make it easier to do a lot of things, but most of the things they make it easier to do don't need to be done."

"I just the other day got, an internet was sent by my staff at 10 o'clock in the morning on Friday and I just got it yesterday. Why ? Because it got tangled up with all these things going on…"

"Technology is a way of organizing the universe so that man doesn't have to experience it."

"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."

"MS-DOS isn't dead, it just smells that way."

"Style used to be an interaction between the human soul and tools that were limiting. In the digital era, it will have to come from the soul alone."

"What does it say about our culture that personality is now considered a technology, a tool of the trade, not only in politics but in business and the professions? Has everyone been forced to become an actor? In sixteenth century…"

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

"Technology makes the world a new place."

"There will always be things we wish to say in our programs that in all known languages can only be said poorly."

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

"I have an almost religious zeal.. not for technology per se, but for the Internet which is for me, the nervous system of mother Earth, which I see as a living creature, linking up."

"Double your drive space — delete Windows !"

"The spoken word was the first technology by which man was able to let go of his environment in order to grasp it in a new way."

"I wish life had an Undo function."

"It has become appallingly obvious that our technology has exceeded our humanity."

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

"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."

"In computing, invariants are ephemeral."

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

"If brute force doesn't solve your problems, then you aren't using enough."

"First words on the first telephone - "Mr. Watson -- come here -- I want to see you.""

"The most amazing achievement of the computer software industry is its continuing cancellation of the steady and staggering gains made by the computer hardware industry."

"Motto for a research laboratory: What we work on today, others will first think of tomorrow."

"And bring me a hard copy of the Internet so I can do some serious surfing."

"Worth noting: running 'reboot -h' does NOT produce a helpful usage message."

"'Intel Inside': The world's most widely used warning label."

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

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

"I don't want to be left behind. In fact, I want to be here before the action starts."

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

"The world is coming to an end... SAVE YOUR BUFFERS!"

"We really care about our brand. We really want it to stand for high quality. We want people to be excited about it, for it to be fun."

"A thunderstorm is God's way of saying you spend too much time in front of the computer."

"A Windows user spends 1/3 of his life sleeping, 1/3 working, 1/3 waiting."