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

"The computer provides the only way to give students a real foundation in 21st-century skills."

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

"Computers will never replace good old-fashioned human stupidity."

"I don't want to be left behind. In fact, I want to be here before the action starts."

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

"Not until a program has been in production for at least six months will its most harmful error be discovered."

"Computers in the future may have only 1,000 vacuum tubes and perhapsonly weigh 1 1/2 tons."

"The modern computer hovers between the obsolescent and the nonexistent."

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

"The issues involved are sufficiently important that courses are now moving out of the philosophy departments and into mainstream computer science. And they affect everyone. Many of the students attracted to these courses are not technology majors, and many of…"

"Good code is its own best documentation."

"If we had had the right technology back then, you would have seen Eva Braun on the Donahue show and Adolf Hitler on Meet the Press."

"The debate rages on: is PL/I Bachtrian or Dromedary?"

"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."

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

"Saying your OS is the best in the world 'cause more people use it is like saying McDonalds makes the best food in the world."

"It’s ridiculous to live 100 years and only be able to remember 30 million bytes. You know, less than a compact disc. The human condition is really becoming more obsolete every minute."

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

"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."

"I think that it's always possible to have a great company if you have great ideas. I will say that since the web has become more commercialized, it also takes some good financial resources to build a great business, but…"

"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."

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

"I rigged my cellular to send a message to my PDA, which is online with my PC, to get it to activate the voicemail, which sends the message to the inbox of my email, which routes it to the PDA,…"

"Computers are getting smarter all the time. Scientists tell us that soon they will be able to talk to us. (And by ‘they’, I mean ‘computers’. I doubt scientists will ever be able to talk to us.)"

"Fools ignore complexity. Pragmatists suffer it. Some can avoid it. Geniuses remove it."

"The only people who have anything to fear from free software are those whose products are worth even less."

"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."

"My favorite thing about the Internet is that you get to go into the private world of real creeps without having to smell them."

"eBay's business is based on enabling someone to do business with another person, and to do that, they first have to develop some measure of trust, either in the other person or the system."

"I am sometimes something of a lazy person, so when I end up spending a lot of time using something myself — as I did with Google in the earliest of days, I knew it was a big deal."

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

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

"The world is coming to an end... SAVE YOUR BUFFERS!"

"People keep asking me what I think of it now that it's done. Hence my protest: The Web is not done!"

"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."

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

"High technology has done us one great service: It has retaught us the delight of performing simple and primordial tasks - chopping wood, building a fire, drawing water from a spring."

"In software, we rarely have meaningful requirements. Even if we do, the only measure of success that matters is whether our solution solves the customer’s shifting idea of what their problem is."

"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…"

"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…"

"If computers had invented humans as part of a BI program (biological intelligence), humans would have been tossed aside as barely having achieved perfect game play at Tic-Tac-Toe."

"These are best-of-breed computers for consumers looking for the best technology available for advanced multimedia and entertainment applications."

"A programmer is a person who passes as an exacting expert on the basis of being able to turn out, after innumerable punching, an infinite series of incomprehensive answers calculated with micrometric precisions from vague assumptions based on debatable figures…"

"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."

"Imagine if every Thursday your shoes exploded if you tied them the usual way. This happens to us all the time with computers, and nobody thinks of complaining."

"We always overestimate the change that will occur in the next two years and underestimate the change that will occur in the next ten. Don't let yourself be lulled into inaction."

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