"It's very important to remember that it's your intellectual property; it's not your computer. And in the pursuit of protection of intellectual property, it's important not to defeat or undermine the security measures that people need to adopt in these…"

"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."

"I find sitting at a specially equipped desk in front of some pretty ugly plastics and staring at a little window is a very unnatural event."

"Why do we want intelligent terminals when there are so many stupid users ?"

"If future generations are to remember us more with gratitude than sorrow, we must achieve more than just the miracles of technology. We must also leave them a glimpse of the world as it was created, not just as it…"

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

"Bill Gates is the pope of the personal computer industry. He decides who's going to build."

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

"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."

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

"The city’s central computer told you? R2D2, you know better than to trust a strange computer!"

"The demand for digital textbooks has increased since its introduction to the marketplace. As students become more familiar with them and computers get faster, larger and more portable, this product will gain in popularity."

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

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

"One can only display complex information in the mind. Like seeing, movement or flow or alteration of view is more important than the static picture, no matter how lovely."

"The use of COBOL cripples the mind; its teaching should therefore be regarded as a criminal offense."

"Bringing computers into the home won't change either one, but may revitalize the corner saloon."

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

"High technology has done us one great service: It has retaught us the delight of performing simple and primordial tasks - chopping wood, building a fire, drawing water from a spring."

"We are very much believers that the web is an open environment, and we need to make sure that people can find all kinds of different stuff through Yahoo!, and not necessarily keeping people within Yahoo!"

"We are Microsoft. Resistance Is Futile. You Will Be Assimilated."

"Our business is about technology, yes. But it's also about operations and customer relationships."

"The only problem with Microsoft is they just have no taste. They have absolutely no taste. And I don’t mean that in a small way, I mean that in a big way, in the sense that they don’t think of…"

"Should array indices start at 0 or 1? My compromise of 0.5 was rejected without, I thought, proper consideration."

"Debugging is twice as hard as writing the code in the first place. Therefore, if you write the code as cleverly as possible, you are–by definition–not smart enough to debug it."

"Inside every small program is a large program struggling to get out."

"Considering the flames and intolerance, shouldn't USENET be spelled ABUSENET?"

"A program is a spell cast over a computer, turning input into error messages."

"Fifty years of programming language research, and we end up with C++?"

"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."

"It has been said that the great scientific disciplines are examples of giants standing on the shoulders of other giants. It has also been said that the software industry is an example of midgets standing on the toes of…"

"Structured Programming supports the law of the excluded muddle."

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

"Getting Information off the Internet is like taking a drink from a fire hydrant."

"A programming language is low level when its programs require attention to the irrelevant."

"We hope that the Internet becomes even more affordable and more ubiquitous over time, and our mission at Yahoo! is to continue to keep our services available AND useful on all these platforms."

"Get into a rut early: Do the same process the same way. Accumulate idioms. Standardize. The only difference(!) between Shakespeare and you was the size of his idiom list - not the size of his vocabulary."

"The fact that I have entered into IT-related business is proof that businesses have to evolve and keep with time. One has to re-invent continuously."

"Don’t worry if it doesn’t work right. If everything did, you’d be out of a job."

"In English every word can be verbed. Would that it were so in our programming languages."

"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…"

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

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

"In computing, invariants are ephemeral."

"Within a computer natural language is unnatural."

"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…"

"Technology favors horrible people."

"We kid ourselves if we think that the ratio of procedure to data in an active data-base system can be made arbitrarily small or even kept small."