"The Internet? Is that thing still around?"

"The most important and urgent problems of the technology of today are no longer the satisfactions of primary needs or of archetypal wishes, but the reparation of the evils and damages by technology of yesterday."

"Orchestras only need to be sworn at, and a German is consequently at an advantage with them, as English profanity, except in America, has not gone beyond a limited technology of perdition."

"It's hard for us in our stores to be a leader in technology."

"They're growing at three to four times the personal computer market."

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

"I had one simple idea about telling friends about arts and technology events. People in the community suggested everything else to us, and that's our theme. We're really run by the people who use the site. We just run the…"

"We have the mini and the micro computer. In what semantic niche would the pico computer fall?"

"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…"

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

"It has become appallingly obvious that our technology has exceeded our humanity."

"Silos can't interoperate unless the technology does."

"Technology does not drive change -- it enables change."

"To iterate is human, to recurse divine."

"There’s an old story about the person who wished his computer were as easy to use as his telephone. That wish has come true, since I no longer know how to use my telephone."

"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…"

"You will not even have enough time to go online and download all the patches to your computer before it is infected."

"Style used to be an interaction between the human soul and tools that were limiting. In the digital era, it will have to come from the soul alone."

"Worth noting: running 'reboot -h' does NOT produce a helpful usage message."

"There used to be this country called the Soviet Union; it's not there anymore. Our technology was better than theirs."

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

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

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

"Microsoft is now talking about the digital nervous system... I guess I would be nervous if my system was built on their technology too."

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

"The best museums and museum exhibits about science or technology give you the feeling that, hey, this is interesting, but maybe I could do something here, too."

"If at first you don't succeed; call it version 1.0."

"It is the user who should parameterize procedures, not their creators."

"In programming, everything we do is a special case of something more general -- and often we know it too quickly."

"From the time I was 7, when I purchased my first calculator, I was fascinated by the idea of a machine that could compute things."

"Computers are like Old Testament gods; lots of rules and no mercy."

"So many good ideas are never heard from again once they embark in a voyage on the semantic gulf."

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

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

"It's just like a computer. The more you load up, the slower it gets, the more issues arise."

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

"Programmers are tools for converting caffeine into code."

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

"Program complexity grows until it exceeds the capabilities of the programmer who must maintain it."

"A year spent in artificial intelligence is enough to make one believe in God."

"The Web is like a dominatrix. Everywhere I turn, I see little buttons ordering me to Submit."

"If your computer speaks English, it was probably made in Japan."

"We've arranged a civilization in which most crucial elements profoundly depend on science and technology."

"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."

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

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

"Technology presumes there's just one right way to do things and there never is."

"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."