"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."

"Kids today have so many advantages I never had. There's no telling what I could've accomplished with a home computer and a handgun."

"For a long time it puzzled me how something so expensive, so leading edge, could be so useless. And then it occurred to me that a computer is a stupid machine with the ability to do incredibly smart things,…"

"If you give someone a program, you will frustrate them for a day; if you teach them how to program, you will frustrate them for a lifetime."

"Some people think technology has the answers."

"If future generations are to remember us more with gratitude than sorrow, we must achieve more than just the miracles of technology. We must also leave them a glimpse of the world as it was created, not just as it…"

"Ever notice how fast Windows runs ? — Neither did I."

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

"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…"

"Innovation distinguishes between a leader and a follower."

"We don’t have a traditional strategy process, planning process like you’d find in traditional technical companies. It allows Google to innovate very, very quickly, which I think is a real strength of the company."

"I completely love playing and designing games and always will. I am so into games that I listen to game music all day. That may sound strange, but you can guarantee I'm a hardcore gamer and would never let you…"

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

"A programmer is a person who passes as an exacting expert on the basis of being able to turn out, after innumerable punching, an infinite series of incomprehensive answers calculated with micrometric precisions from vague assumptions based on debatable figures…"

"When we understand knowledge-based systems, it will be as before -- except our fingertips will have been singed."

"There are three kinds of death in this world. There's heart death, there's brain death, and there's being off the network."

"Functions delay binding; data structures induce binding. Moral: Structure data late in the programming process."

"Computation has made the tree flower."

"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."

"How could this be a problem in a country where we have Intel and Microsoft?"

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

"Results eventually reach a point at which a finer mesh no longer yields an appreciable difference. This type of convergence study helps generate accurate solutions with meshes that are sufficiently dense and yet not overly demanding of computer resources."

"We live in a world ruled by fictions of every kind -- mass merchandising, advertising, politics conducted as a branch of advertising, the instant translation of science and technology into popular imagery, the increasing blurring and intermingling of identities within…"

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

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

"When we first started, we would message all the time, ... He would log on, and mostly we would just message back and forth at the beginning of the relationship. Now, we use the computer, phones, letters, airlines - everything."

"Better to be a geek than an idiot."

"eBay's business is based on enabling someone to do business with another person, and to do that, they first have to develop some measure of trust, either in the other person or the system."

"The Internet: where men are men, women are men, and children are FBI agents."

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

"Often it is the means that justify the ends: Goals advance technique and technique survives even when goal structures crumble."

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

"C++ : Where friends have access to your private members."

"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."

"It's very important to remember that it's your intellectual property; it's not your computer. And in the pursuit of protection of intellectual property, it's important not to defeat or undermine the security measures that people need to adopt in these…"

"If you have a procedure with ten parameters, you probably missed some."

"It has been said that the great scientific disciplines are examples of giants standing on the shoulders of other giants. It has also been said that the software industry is an example of midgets standing on the toes of…"

"Make no mistake about it: Computers process numbers - not symbols. We measure our understanding (and control) by the extent to which we can arithmetize an activity."

"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."

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

"I wish life had an Undo function."

"Computers will never replace good old-fashioned human stupidity."

"If GM had kept up with technology like the computer industry has, we would all be driving $25 cars that got 1000 MPG."

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

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

"The last good thing written in C++ was the Pachelbel Canon."

"The Internet? Is that thing still around?"

"Many people see technology as the problem behind the so-called digital divide. Others see it as the solution. Technology is neither. It must operate in conjunction with business, economic, political and social system."