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

"Making something variable is easy. Controlling duration of constancy is the trick."

"We know by now that if we make technology the predestined force in our lives, man will walk to the measure of its demands. We know how leveling that influence can be, how easy it is to computerize man and…"

"Hacking is like sex. You get in, you get out, and hope that you didn't leave something that can be traced back to you."

"Come to think of it, there are already a million monkeys on a million typewriters, and Usenet is nothing like Shakespeare."

"Syntactic sugar causes cancer of the semicolon."

"Home is where you hang your @."

"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."

"Information and communications technology unlocks the value of time, allowing and enabling multi-tasking, multi-channels, multi-this and multi-that."

"Technological progress is like an axe in the hands of a pathological criminal."

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

"NO, You cannot dial 911, I'm downloading my mail !!!"

"Better to be a geek than an idiot."

"MS-DOS, an OS originally designed for a microprocessor that modern kitchen appliances would sneer at."

"The protection of personal information stored on our nation's computer systems is critical to public trust in those networks and to the health of our economy."

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

"Crap... Someone knocked over my recycle bin... There's icons all over my desktop..."

"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."

"Everybody who runs a Web site knows we're not assured of compatibility."

"The city’s central computer told you? R2D2, you know better than to trust a strange computer!"

"We really care about our brand. We really want it to stand for high quality. We want people to be excited about it, for it to be fun."

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

"To go forward, you must backup."

"Life is about family and technology."

"Unix is simple. It just takes a genius to understand its simplicity."

"Programmers are not to be measured by their ingenuity and their logic but by the completeness of their case analysis."

"The sooner you start coding a program, the longer it will take."

"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 computers get too powerful, we can organize them into a committee. That will do them in."

"Life would be so much easier if we only had the source code."

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

"There is some confusion because we only recently began our marketing. We're in an era were people need to think about business processes and applications horizontally...We need to think of the enterprise not as an island of stand-alone technology."

"I think Microsoft named .Net so it wouldn’t show up in a Unix directory listing."

"Efforts to protect critical computer networks have unfortunately not kept pace with the march of technology."

"The best thing about a boolean is even if you are wrong, you are only off by a bit."

"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…"

"Any code of your own that you haven’t looked at for six or more months might as well have been written by someone else."

"Microsoft is not the answer. Microsoft is the question. NO is the answer."

"Not everything that can be counted counts, and not everything that counts can be counted."

"Fifty years of programming language research, and we end up with C++?"

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

"All programmers are playwrights and all computers are lousy actors."

"Looking at the proliferation of personal web pages on the net, it looks like very soon everyone on earth will have 15 Megabytes of fame."

"I need to make an okay living. The people who work for us need to. But after you make a comfortable living, how much more do you need? It's like I make a joke about nerd values, because I'm very…"

"If McDonalds were run like a software company, one out of every hundred Big Macs would give you food poisoning, and the response would be, ‘We’re sorry, here’s a coupon for two more."

"Computer Science is no more about computers than astronomy is about telescopes."

"In computing, turning the obvious into the useful is a living definition of the word "frustration"."

"Microsoft is now talking about the digital nervous system... I guess I would be nervous if my system was built on their technology too."