"I'm struck by the insidious, computer-driven tendency to take things out of the domain of muscular activity and put them into the domain of mental activity."

"Men are from Mars. Women are from Venus. Computers are from hell."

"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."

"The great thing about Object Oriented code is that it can make small, simple problems look like large, complex ones."

"The federal government is like a handicapped turtle trying to crawl around and keep up with the rabbit, which is technology."

"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."

"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."

"Unfortunately this was an older file that this person hadn't opened in quite a while. The person who uses this computer had missed it."

"When we write programs that "learn", it turns out that we do and they don't."

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

"They've grown up with the computer, so they expect things to be faster, including cooking. They like baking by adding things to a mix. In recipes, they want fewer ingredients -- seven is ideal -- and they like step-by-step pictures…"

"Education makes machines which act like men and produces men who act like machines."

"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."

"Never before in history has innovation offered promise of so much to so many in so short a time."

"Any given program, once deployed, is already obsolete."

"Applying computer technology is simply finding the right wrench to pound in the correct screw."

"Americans have the right to have their medical decisions made by them and their doctors, and not by those bureaucrats sitting behind a computer screen hundreds of miles away."

"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."

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

"I want people to understand the amazing, positive way our software can make leisure time more enjoyable, and work and businesses more successful."

"Daddy, what does FORMATTING DRIVE C mean?"

"Apple really hasn't weighed in on the sub-$1,000 computer category. Their next step could be refreshing their current products and making pricing changes."

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

"It is the user who should parameterize procedures, not their creators."

"If the automobile had followed the same development cycle as the computer, a Rolls-Royce would today cost $100, get a million miles per gallon, and explode once a year, killing everyone inside."

"If two people write exactly the same program, each should be put into microcode and then they certainly won't be the same."

"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…"

"Technological progress has merely provided us with more efficient means for going backwards."

"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 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."

"To go forward, you must backup."

"The danger from computers is not that they will eventually get as smart as men, but that we will meanwhile agree to meet them halfway."

"The lifeblood of our business is that R&D spend. There's nothing that flows through a pipe or down a wire or anything else. We have to continuously create new innovation that lets people do something they didn't think they could…"

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

"Optimization hinders evolution."

"There are broken toilets left there, old computers and miscellaneous garbage. They are totally unsupervised. The recycling company is good, but when people want to dump trash, they dump trash."

"If a listener nods his head when you're explaining your program, wake him up."

"You think you know when you can learn, are more sure when you can write, even more when you can teach, but certain when you can program."

"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…"

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

"A program without a loop and a structured variable isn't worth writing."

"We’re gambling on our vision, and we would rather do that than make “me too” products. Let some other companies do that. For us, it’s always the next dream."

"If computers get too powerful, we can organize them into committees. That'll do them in."

"Advances in computer technology and the Internet have changed the way America works, learns, and communicates. The Internet has become an integral part of America's economic, political, and social life."

"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."

"You can’t have great software without a great team, and most software teams behave like dysfunctional families."

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

"Computation has made the tree flower."