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

"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…"

"An adequate bootstrap is a contradiction in terms."

"Good code is its own best documentation."

"There is only one satisfying way to boot a computer."

"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."

"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."

"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."

"Windows NT crashed. I am the Blue Screen of Death. No one hears your screams."

"It is better to have 100 functions operate on one data structure than 10 functions on 10 data structures."

"The US Nuclear Security Administration runs the Blue Gene supercomputer. It is supposed to be the top super computer in the world ? and it runs on GNU Linux. Of the top 10 super computers in the world, seven run…"

"Any non-trivial program contains at least one error."

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

"Grove giveth and Gates taketh away."

"I'm a great believer in new technology and I think new technology is very scary for newspaper companies."

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

"Pentiums melt in your PC, not in your hand."

"Where there is the necessary technical skill to move mountains, there is no need for the faith that moves mountains."

"The interesting thing is when we design and architect a server, we don't design it for Windows or Linux, we design it for both. We don't really care, as long as we're selling the one the customer wants."

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

"The real problem is not whether machines think but whether men do."

"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."

"Microsoft has a new version out, Windows XP, which according to everybody is the ‘most reliable Windows ever.‘ To me, this is like saying that asparagus is ‘the most articulate vegetable ever."

"I also introduce skills like using a hula hoop or jumping rope. I think many kids this age need a break from the computer or video games to learn these very important physical skills."

"Systems have sub-systems and sub-systems have sub- systems and so on ad infinitum - which is why we're always starting over."

"A printer consists of three main parts: the case, the jammed paper tray and the blinking red light."

"Computers can figure out all kinds of problems, except the things in the world that just don't add up."

"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…"

"There's a great desire to be computer-savvy among those 50 and older. They're really hungry for it."

"I can't uninstall it, there seems to be some kind of 'Uninstall Shield'."

"The only business that is ever threatened by improved technologies are those that need to be left behind."

"First, solve the problem. Then, write the code."

"Microsoft has had its success by doing low-cost products and constantly improving those products and we've really redefined the IT industry to be something that's about a tool for individuals."

"Re graphics: A picture is worth 10K words - but only those to describe the picture. Hardly any sets of 10K words can be adequately described with pictures."

"Just about anyone can pass if they have a home computer and are a quick study."

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

"The Internet's been so great, and it's so nice to have fans do nice, elaborate websites, but I think the down side is some of the things... for real fans to go on and see that 90 percent of the…"

"If we continue to develop our technology without wisdom or prudence, our servant may prove to be our executioner."

"Everything should be built top-down, except the first time."

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

"Be nice to nerds. Chances are you'll end up working for one."

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

"Database: the information you lose when your memory crashes."

"I think one of the big errors people are making right now is thinking that old-style businesses will be obsolete, when actually they will be an important part of this new civilization. Some retail groups are introducing e-commerce and think…"

"Double your drive space — delete Windows !"

"It is easier to write an incorrect program than understand a correct one."

"It was a pivotal moment in the history of computers and the history of advertising."

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