"One machine can do the work of fifty ordinary men. No machine can do the work of one extraordinary man."

"Well, another market is being created now out of Internet technology."

"The technologies which have had the most profound effects on human life are usually simple."

"You know you're a geek when... You try to shoo a fly away from the monitor with your cursor. That just happened to me. It was scary."

"Over time, it's becoming more and more understood by people that we're acting in their interests. And that's a very, very powerful thing for our brand."

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

"NO, You cannot dial 911, I'm downloading my mail !!!"

"Technology without hatred can be a blessing. Technology with hatred is always a disaster."

"Pixar is the most technically advanced creative company; Apple is the most creatively advanced technical company."

"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.."

"I can't uninstall it, there seems to be some kind of 'Uninstall Shield'."

"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."

"We shouldn't build a technology to colour, or grey out, what people say. The media in general is balanced, although there are a lot of issues to be addressed that the media rightly pick up on."

"There are managers so preoccupied with their e-mail messages that they never look up from their screens to see what's happening in the nondigital world."

"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."

"Programming is an unnatural act."

"The best programmers are not marginally better than merely good ones. They are an order-of-magnitude better, measured by whatever standard: conceptual creativity, speed, ingenuity of design, or problem-solving ability."

"The Internet? Is that thing still around?"

"We live in a world ruled by fictions of every kind -- mass merchandising, advertising, politics conducted as a branch of advertising, the instant translation of science and technology into popular imagery, the increasing blurring and intermingling of identities within…"

"I’ve noticed lately that the paranoid fear of computers becoming intelligent and taking over the world has almost entirely disappeared from the common culture. Near as I can tell, this coincides with the release of MS-DOS."

"Anyone who spends their life on a computer is pretty unusual."

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

"Giving up on assembly language was the apple in our Garden of Eden: Languages whose use squanders machine cycles are sinful. The LISP machine now permits LISP programmers to abandon bra and fig-leaf."

"Most software today is very much like an Egyptian pyramid with millions of bricks piled on top of each other, with no structural integrity, but just done by brute force and thousands of slaves."

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

"Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic."

"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.)"

"Five years ago, we thought of the Web as a new medium, not a new economy."

"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."

"The trouble with programmers is that you can never tell what a programmer is doing until it’s too late."

"Results eventually reach a point at which a finer mesh no longer yields an appreciable difference. This type of convergence study helps generate accurate solutions with meshes that are sufficiently dense and yet not overly demanding of computer resources."

"Some programming languages manage to absorb change, but withstand progress."

"The computer programmer is a creator of universes for which he alone is responsible. Universes of virtually unlimited complexity can be created in the form of computer programs."

"Things should be made as simple as possible, but not any simpler."

"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…"

"Everyone can be taught to sculpt: Michelangelo would have had to be taught not to. So it is with great programmers."

"C++ : Where friends have access to your private members."

"Grove giveth and Gates taketh away."

"Think"

"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."

"That’s the thing about people who think they hate computers. What they really hate is lousy programmers."

"Users /nm./: collective term for those who use computers. Users are divided into three types: novice, intermediate and expert. Novice Users: people who are afraid that simply pressing a key might break their computer. Intermediate Users: people who don't know how to…"

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

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

"The only constructive theory connecting neuroscience and psychology will arise from the study of software."

"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."

"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."

"Paper returns done by hand have an 80 percent accuracy rate, or 20 percent error rate. E-file has more than a 99 percent accuracy rate, because the computer does all the work for you."