"I had a fortune cookie the other day and it said: 'Outlook not so good'. I said: 'Sure, but Microsoft ships it anyway'."

"Within a computer natural language is unnatural."

"The Internet is so big, so powerful and pointless that for some people it is a complete substitute for life."

"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."

"Western society has accepted as unquestionable a technological imperative that is quite as arbitrary as the most primitive taboo: not merely the duty to foster invention and constantly to create technological novelties, but equally the duty to surrender to…"

"Anyone who has lost track of time when using a computer knows the propensity to dream, the urge to make dreams come true and the tendency to miss lunch."

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

"Windows NT addresses 2 Gigabytes of RAM, which is more than any application will ever need."

"I still have my laptop but I haven't used it. I'm a paper man, not electronic."

"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."

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

"Software is under a constant tension. Being symbolic it is arbitrarily perfectible; but also it is arbitrarily changeable."

"The new information technology—Internet and e-mail—have practically eliminated the physical costs of communications."

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

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

"One good reason why computers can do more work than people is that they never have to stop and answer the phone."

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

"The idea is that instead of going to an online retail site ... and buying a physical CD and having it shipped to you, you actually can buy the song and download the song to your computer hard drive."

"Writing code has a place in the human hierarchy worth somewhere above grave robbing and beneath managing."

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

"I think computer viruses should count as life. I think it says something about human nature that the only form of life we have created so far is purely destructive. We've created life in our own image."

"All of the books in the world contain no more information than is broadcast as video in a single large American city in a single year. Not all bits have equal value."

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

"We kid ourselves if we think that the ratio of procedure to data in an active data-base system can be made arbitrarily small or even kept small."

"Structured Programming supports the law of the excluded muddle."

"Users /nm./: collective term for those who use computers. Users are divided into three types: novice, intermediate and expert. Novice Users: people who are afraid that simply pressing a key might break their computer. Intermediate Users: people who don't know how to…"

"But they are useless. They can only give you answers."

"Saying that most of the computer was filled with personal images is simply not accurate."

"Imagination is more important than knowledge. For knowledge is limited to all we now know and understand, while imagination embraces the entire world, and all there ever will be to know and understand."

"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."

"The computing field is always in need of new cliches."

"When music technology takes the place of musicianship, it's time to pull the plug."

"You know you're a geek when... You try to shoo a fly away from the monitor with your cursor. That just happened to me. It was scary."

"Too few people in computer science are aware of some of the informational challenges in biology and their implications for the world. We can store an incredible amount of data very cheaply."

"I am a hard-core believer that the clean desktop is the way to go... At the same time, we told OEMs that if they were going to put a bunch of icons on the desktop, then so were we."

"This is not a phone business. This is the smallest video camera, it's the smallest computer, smallest TV."

"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."

"The purpose of medicine is to prevent significant disease, to decrease pain and to postpone death... Technology has to support these goals-if not, it may even be counterproductive."

"The fact that I have entered into IT-related business is proof that businesses have to evolve and keep with time. One has to re-invent continuously."

"The effort required to correct an error increases exponentially with time."

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

"We've arranged a civilization in which most crucial elements profoundly depend on science and technology."

"The Internet? Is that thing still around?"

"It's just like a computer. The more you load up, the slower it gets, the more issues arise."

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

"Technology is always evolving, and companies.. not just search companies.. can't be afraid to take advantage of change."

"We always overestimate the change that will occur in the next two years and underestimate the change that will occur in the next ten. Don't let yourself be lulled into inaction."

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