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

"As we go forward, I hope we're going to continue to use technology to make really big differences in how people live and work."

"The march of science and technology does not imply growing intellectual complexity in the lives of most people. It often means the opposite."

"Steve Jobs may have the apple, but Bill Gates has the entire orchard !"

"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."

"Beware of the Turing tar-pit in which everything is possible but nothing of interest is easy."

"Better to be a geek than an idiot."

"The Internet is a great way to get on the net."

"First and foremost, the Internet is unique since it is THE only interactive medium -- and that's important because from a content, service, and communications perspective, we web folks try to take advantage of that interactivity."

"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…"

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

"It would appear that we have reached the limits of what it is possible to achieve with computer technology, although one should be careful with such statements, as they tend to sound pretty silly in 5 years."

"I had a fortune cookie the other day and it said: 'Outlook not so good'. I said: 'Sure, but Microsoft ships it anyway'."

"Every operating system out there is about equal… We all suck."

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

"Do you realize if it weren't for Edison we'd be watching TV by candlelight?"

"We have technology, finally, that for the first time in human history allows people to really maintain rich connections with much larger numbers of people."

"We're seeing how the videos translate to the live shows and how the technology is really reaching kids."

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

"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."

"Live TV died in the late 1950s, electronic bulletin boards came along in the mid-1980s, meaning there was about a 25-year gap when it was difficult to put your foot in your mouth and have people all across the country…"

"Always code as if the guy who ends up maintaining your code will be a violent psychopath who knows where you live."

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

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

"Syntactic sugar causes cancer of the semicolon."

"The Internet? Is that thing still around?"

"We are always saying to ourself.. we have to innovate. We got to come up with that breakthrough. In fact, the way software works.. so long as you are using your existing software.. you don't pay us anything at all.…"

"I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination. Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world."

"There are so many ways to heal. Arrogance may have a place in technology, but not in healing. I need to get out of my own way if I am to heal."

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

"What does it say about our culture that personality is now considered a technology, a tool of the trade, not only in politics but in business and the professions? Has everyone been forced to become an actor? In sixteenth century…"

"What is the difference between a Turing machine and the modern computer? It's the same as that between Hillary's ascent of Everest and the establishment of a Hilton hotel on its peak."

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

"Computer Science is embarrassed by the computer."

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

"I would love to change the world, but they won't give me the source code."

"Writing code has a place in the human hierarchy worth somewhere above grave robbing and beneath managing."

"Technology is ruled by two types of people: those who manage what they do not understand, and those who understand what they do not manage."

"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."

"Is it possible that software is not like anything else, that it is meant to be discarded: that the whole point is to see it as a soap bubble?"

"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)."

"The purpose of medicine is to prevent significant disease, to decrease pain and to postpone death... Technology has to support these goals-if not, it may even be counterproductive."

"I see no progress in this industry. These clocks are no faster than the ones they made a hundred years ago."

"Every program is a part of some other program and rarely fits."

"Computers are like air conditioners: they stop working when you open windows."

"The Internet is not just one thing, it's a collection of things - of numerous communications networks that all speak the same digital language."

"Soon silence will have passed into legend. Man has turned his back on silence. Day after day he invents machines and devices that increase noise and distract humanity from the essence of life, contemplation, meditation...tooting, howling, screeching, booming,…"

"What the country needs are a few labor-making inventions."