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

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

"I get mail, therefore I am."

"A great lathe operator commands several times the wage of an average lathe operator, but a great writer of software code is worth 10,000 times the price of an average software writer."

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

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

"Some say Google is God. Others say Google is Satan. But if they think Google is too powerful, remember that with search engines unlike other companies, all it takes is a single click to go to another search engine."

"The computer is the most extraordinary of man's technological clothing; it's an extension of our central nervous system. Beside it, the wheel is a mere hula-hoop."

"Functions delay binding; data structures induce binding. Moral: Structure data late in the programming process."

"When we write programs that "learn", it turns out that we do and they don't."

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

"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."

"You can try to control people, or you can try to have a system that represents reality. I find that knowing what's really happening is more important than trying to control people."

"If a program is useless, it will have to be documented."

"Think of all the psychic energy expended in seeking a fundamental distinction between "algorithm" and "program"."

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

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

"Undetectable errors are infinite in variety, in contrast to detectable errors, which by definition are limited."

"When someone says "I want a programming language in which I need only say what I wish done," give him a lollipop."

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

"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…"

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

"Computers are magnificent tools for the realization of our dreams, but no machine can replace the human spark of spirit, compassion, love, and understanding."

"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."

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

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

"Computers, huh? I've heard it all boils down to just a bunch of ones and zeroes.... I don't know how that enables me to see naked women, but however it works, God bless you guys."

"I like my job because it involves learning. I like being around smart people who are trying to figure out new things. I like the fact that if people really try they can figure out how to invent things that…"

"To go forward, you must backup."

"One day soon the Gillette company will announce the development of a razor that, thanks to a computer microchip, can actually travel ahead in time and shave beard hairs that don't even exist yet."

"I have to say I was a bit shocked to see myself on the cover (TIME magazine). It's really not my style since Yahoo! is something built by a lot more people than just me.."

"The inside of a computer is as dumb as hell but it goes like mad!"

"It is a commonplace of modern technology that problems have solutions before there is knowledge of how they are to be solved."

"Think of it! With VLSI we can pack 100 ENIACS in 1 sq. cm."

"Customers are still setting the technology agenda. Not just you, our customers, but your customers as well. What more and more are telling you is what kind of services they need, and how and when they want those services delivered…"

"Computer language design is just like a stroll in the park. Jurassic Park, that is."

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

"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."

"Think"

"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…"

"There is a chasm of carbon and silicon the software can't bridge."

"People say Microsoft paid $14M for using the Rolling Stones song 'Start me up' in their commercials. This is wrong. Microsoft payed $14M only for a part of the song. For instance, they didn't use the line 'You'll make a…"

"For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for Nature cannot be fooled."

"Windows NT addresses 2 Gigabytes of RAM, which is more than any application will ever need."

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

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

"To iterate is human, to recurse divine."

"True innovation often comes from the small startup who is lean enough to launch a market but lacks the heft to own it."