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

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

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

"They're growing at three to four times the personal computer market."

"If Gore invented the Internet, I invented spell-check."

"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."

"I used to think that cyberspace was fifty years away. What I thought was fifty years away, was only ten years away. And what I thought was ten years away... it was already here. I just wasn't aware of it…"

"That can be a good tax planning tool for small businesses - especially if you get a computer or something that you were planning to buy (in the coming year anyway)."

"Why is it drug addicts and computer afficionados are both called users?"

"Web users ultimately want to get at data quickly and easily. They don't care as much about attractive sites and pretty design."

"I remember turning in my first assignment in elementary school using the computer and the teachers were kind of confused that I had printed it."

"A great lathe operator commands several times the wage of an average lathe operator, but a great writer of software code is worth 10,000 times the price of an average software writer."

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

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

"You can either have software quality or you can have pointer arithmetic, but you cannot have both at the same time."

"In June 1994, while it is still our hobby, we renamed it "yahoo" to stand for "yet another hierarchical officious oracle"."

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

"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…"

"Technology is a gift of God. After the gift of life it is perhaps the greatest of God's gifts. It is the mother of civilizations, of arts and of sciences."

"Innovation distinguishes between a leader and a follower."

"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…"

"The advance of technology is based on making it fit in so that you don't really even notice it, so it's part of everyday life."

"The best way to prepare [to be a programmer] is to write programs, and to study great programs that other people have written. In my case, I went to the garbage cans at the Computer Science Center and fished out…"

"If I have seen further it is by standing on the shoulders of giants."

"Modern technology Owes ecology An apology."

"One would think that if you're anonymous, you'd do anything you want, but groups have their own sense of community and what we can do."

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

"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."

"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."

"The Star Trek computer doesn't seem that interesting. They ask it random questions, it thinks for a while. I think we can do better than that."

"A friend called me up the other day and talked about investing in a dot-com that sells lobsters. Internet lobsters. Where will this end? The next day he sent me a huge package of lobsters on ice. How low can…"

"The goal of computation is the emulation of our synthetic abilities, not the understanding of our analytic ones."

"In software systems, it is often the early bird that makes the worm."

"Technology is the drug of choice for most Americans. Source unknown Theory: when you have ideas. Ideology: when ideas have you."

"If it keeps up, man will atrophy all his limbs but the push-button finger."

"If google made $1 everytime someone used them to find an answer to a tech support question, they would own microsoft."

"Any significant boost in technology could just as easily be a rigged demo."

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

"Ooops. My brain just hit a bad sector."

"640K ought to be enough for anybody."

"The most important computer is the one that rages in our skulls and ever seeks that satisfactory external emulator. The standarization of real computers would be a disaster - and so it probably won't happen."

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

"I have gotten everything from a one-page letter written in pencil to a 50-page computer generated masterpiece."

"Most of you are familiar with the virtues of a programmer. There are three, of course: laziness, impatience, and hubris."

"The attention span of a computer is only as long as its electrical cord."

"Software is like sex: It’s better when it’s free."

"It's not that we use technology, we live technology."

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