"Efforts to protect critical computer networks have unfortunately not kept pace with the march of technology."

"The use of a program to prove the 4-color theorem will not change mathematics - it merely demonstrates that the theorem, a challenge for a century, is probably not important to mathematics."

"This is a highly reliable power source. Being a large credit card processor, doing $6 million an hour in transactions, our computers have to work."

"If it keeps up, man will atrophy all his limbs but the push-button finger."

"The perfect computer has been developed. You just feed in your problems and they never come out again."

"In computing, invariants are ephemeral."

"If the human race wants to go to hell in a basket, technology can help it get there by jet."

"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."

"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."

"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."

"Computer science education cannot make anybody an expert programmer any more than studying brushes and pigment can make somebody an expert painter."

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

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

"Western society has accepted as unquestionable a technological imperative that is quite as arbitrary as the most primitive taboo: not merely the duty to foster invention and constantly to create technological novelties, but equally the duty to surrender to…"

"Artificial Intelligence: the art of making computers that behave like the ones in movies."

"Innovation distinguishes between a leader and a follower."

"The production of too many useful things results in too many useless people."

"Daddy, what does FORMATTING DRIVE C mean?"

"If Unix is the face of the future I want to go back to quill pens."

"Technology is so much fun but we can drown in our technology. The fog of information can drive out knowledge."

"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?"

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

"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…"

"Though the Chinese should adore APL, it's FORTRAN they put their money on."

"A friend called me up the other day and talked about investing in a dot-com that sells lobsters. Internet lobsters. Where will this end? The next day he sent me a huge package of lobsters on ice. How low can…"

"Technology does not run an enterprise, relationships do."

"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."

"Database: the information you lose when your memory crashes."

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

"In computing, turning the obvious into the useful is a living definition of the word "frustration"."

"For a long time it puzzled me how something so expensive, so leading edge, could be so useless. And then it occurred to me that a computer is a stupid machine with the ability to do incredibly smart things,…"

"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…"

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

"Controlling complexity is the essence of computer programming."

"The Internet is like a giant jellyfish. You can't step on it. You can't go around it. You've got to get through it."

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

"We are now able to see things in nature of what was previously only available in computer simulation."

"Everything should be built top-down, except the first time."

"My understanding is their objective is to increase their capacity for the Internet, search engines. All I know is there's a lot of computers."

"The spoken word was the first technology by which man was able to let go of his environment in order to grasp it in a new way."

"America's technology has turned in upon itself; its corporate form makes it the servant of profits, not the servant of human needs."

"What boots up must come down."

"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."

"If McDonalds were run like a software company, one out of every hundred Big Macs would give you food poisoning, and the response would be, ‘We’re sorry, here’s a coupon for two more."

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

"In seeking the unattainable, simplicity only gets in the way."

"These are best-of-breed computers for consumers looking for the best technology available for advanced multimedia and entertainment applications."

"And bring me a hard copy of the Internet so I can do some serious surfing."