"If future generations are to remember us more with gratitude than sorrow, we must achieve more than just the miracles of technology. We must also leave them a glimpse of the world as it was created, not just as it…"

"Getting Information off the Internet is like taking a drink from a fire hydrant."

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

"The computing field is always in need of new cliches."

"You can define advertising as the science of creating and placing media that interrupts the consumer and then gets him or her to take some action."

"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."

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

"Any teacher that can be replaced by a computer, deserves to be."

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

"Simplicity does not precede complexity, but follows it."

"All of the biggest technological inventions created by man - the airplane, the automobile, the computer - says little about his intelligence, but speaks volumes about his laziness."

"Early on, when software was developed by computer scientists, just people working with computers, people passed around software because that was how you got computers to do things."

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

"[Smart] is an elusive concept. There's a certain sharpness, an ability to absorb new facts. To ask an insightful question. To relate to domains that may not seem connected at first. A certain creativity that allows people to be effective."

"Over the centuries the Indians developed sign language for communicating phenomena of interest. Programmers from different tribes (FORTRAN, LISP, ALGOL, SNOBOL, etc.) could use one that doesn't require them to carry a blackboard on their ponies."

"Windows isn't a virus, viruses do something."

"Make no mistake about it: Computers process numbers - not symbols. We measure our understanding (and control) by the extent to which we can arithmetize an activity."

"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…"

"One good reason why computers can do more work than people is that they never have to stop and answer the phone."

"In programming, as in everything else, to be in error is to be reborn."

"In C++ it’s harder to shoot yourself in the foot, but when you do, you blow off your whole leg."

"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."

"Inside every small program is a large program struggling to get out."

"Never let a computer know you're in a hurry."

"Competition is always a fantastic thing, and the computer industry is intensely competitive. Whether it's Google or Apple or free software, we've got some fantastic competitors and it keeps us on our toes."

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

"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."

"I think computer viruses should count as life. I think it says something about human nature that the only form of life we have created so far is purely destructive. We've created life in our own image."

"If we believe in data structures, we must believe in independent (hence simultaneous) processing. For why else would we collect items within a structure? Why do we tolerate languages that give us the one without the other?"

"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."

"It was never clear that it wouldn't just stop (the WWW). Any time during that exponential growth, it could have stalled. I think we were never very confident until 1993."

"The technology at the leading edge changes so rapidly that you have to keep current after you get out of school. I think probably the most important thing is having good fundamentals."

"Unix is user-friendly. It's just very selective about who its friends are."

"Computers make it easier to do a lot of things, but most of the things they make it easier to do don't need to be done."

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

"One can only display complex information in the mind. Like seeing, movement or flow or alteration of view is more important than the static picture, no matter how lovely."

"One man's constant is another man's variable."

"Technology... is a queer thing. It brings you great gifts with one hand, and it stabs you in the back with the other."

"The factory of the future will have only two employees, a man and a dog. The man will be there to feed the dog. The dog will be there to keep the man from touching the equipment."

"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."

"Today is a... digital incarnation of Oz - the Internet - we are a motley group of fools from lions to scarecrows, learning from each other, making and taking responsibility for our decisions, and having fun as we skip down…"

"Because we do not understand the brain very well we are constantly tempted to use the latest technology as a model for trying to understand it. In my childhood we were always assured that the brain was a telephone switchboard.…"

"The more I C, the less I see."

"If you can't make it good, at least make it look good."

"A world technology means either a world government or world suicide."

"After a day spent staring at a computer monitor, think of (a) book as a kind of screen saver for your brain."

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

"Look at growth, look at how much time people spend on the Net and look at the variety of things that they are doing. It's all really good, so I am actually encouraged by the fundamentals that underlie usage growth…"