"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."

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

"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."

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

"The best computer is a man, and it's the only one that can be mass-produced by unskilled labor."

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

"Calculations which required a $20 million machine eight years ago can be done on a Mac cluster costing about $11,000."

"It's a fact that more people watch television and get their information that way than read books. I find new technology and new ways of communication very exciting and would like to do more in this field."

"Programmers are tools for converting caffeine into code."

"There are managers so preoccupied with their e-mail messages that they never look up from their screens to see what's happening in the nondigital world."

"Back up my hard disk ? I can't find the reverse switch !"

"There was a time when nails were high-tech. There was a time when people had to be told how to use a telephone. Technology is just a tool. People use tools to improve their lives."

"When someone says "I want a programming language in which I need only say what I wish done," give him a lollipop."

"The real accomplishment of modern science and technology consists in taking ordinary men, informing them narrowly and deeply and then, through appropriate organization, arranging to have their knowledge combined with that of other specialized but equally ordinary men. This dispenses…"

"I’ve noticed lately that the paranoid fear of computers becoming intelligent and taking over the world has almost entirely disappeared from the common culture. Near as I can tell, this coincides with the release of MS-DOS."

"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."

"A computer makes it possible to do, in half an hour, tasks which were completely unnecessary to do before."

"Programming is like sex: one mistake and you’re providing support for a lifetime."

"It's pretty incredible to look back 30 years to when Microsoft was starting and realize how work has been transformed. We're finally getting close to what I call the digital workstyle."

"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…"

"Technology... is a queer thing. It brings you great gifts with one hand, and it stabs you in the back with the other."

"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."

"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…"

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

"The best museums and museum exhibits about science or technology give you the feeling that, hey, this is interesting, but maybe I could do something here, too."

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

"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…"

"The mass majority of computer users are conservative. They want to use the software they're used to using."

"PHP is a minor evil perpetrated and created by incompetent amateurs, whereas Perl is a great and insidious evil perpetrated by skilled but perverted professionals."

"It is a commonplace of modern technology that problems have solutions before there is knowledge of how they are to be solved."

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

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

"The "Net is a waste of time, and that's exactly what's right about it."

"WinNT: All the headaches of Unix, but in a pretty, windowed environment."

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

"You can try to control people, or you can try to have a system that represents reality. I find that knowing what's really happening is more important than trying to control people."

"For systems, the analogue of a face-lift is to add to the control graph an edge that creates a cycle, not just an additional node."

"Unix was not designed to stop you from doing stupid things, because that would also stop you from doing clever things."

"Computers are useless. They can only give you answers."

"Windows 95: It's like upgrading from Reagan to Bush."

"Los Angeles County officials have asked that manufacturers, suppliers and contractors stop using the terms 'master' and 'slave' regarding computer hard drives, saying such terms are unacceptable and offensive. Additionally, the term 'e-mail' will now be called 'e-person letter', 'dumb…"

"Ours is a world of nuclear giants and ethical infants. If we continue to develop our technology without wisdom or prudence, our servant may prove to be our executioner."

"Macintosh computer are easy to use. It's also easy to stick your hand in a wood chipper."

"Measuring programming progress by lines of code is like measuring aircraft building progress by weight."

"Technology does not run an enterprise, relationships do."

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

"To err is human--and to blame it on a computer is even more so."

"It is questionable if all the mechanical inventions yet made have lightened the day's toil of any human being."