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

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

"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."

"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."

"You can’t have great software without a great team, and most software teams behave like dysfunctional families."

"When music technology takes the place of musicianship, it's time to pull the plug."

"Looking at the proliferation of personal web pages on the net, it looks like very soon everyone on earth will have 15 Megabytes of fame."

"Moore's Law - The number of transistors and resistors on a chip doubles every 24 months"

"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…"

"Considering the current sad state of our computer programs, software development is clearly still a black art, and cannot yet be called an engineering discipline."

"Computers are like bikinis. They save people a lot of guesswork."

"A LISP programmer knows the value of everything, but the cost of nothing."

"The real accomplishment of modern science and technology consists in taking ordinary men, informing them narrowly and deeply and then, through appropriate organization, arranging to have their knowledge combined with that of other specialized but equally ordinary men. This dispenses…"

"To err is human, but to really foul things up requires a computer."

"That’s what’s cool about working with computers. They don’t argue, they remember everything, and they don’t drink all your beer."

"Unix was not designed to stop you from doing stupid things, because that would also stop you from doing clever things."

"Computer Science is no more about computers than astronomy is about telescopes."

"There is so much media now with the Internet and people, and so easy and so cheap to start a newspaper or start a magazine, there’s just millions of voices and people want to be heard."

"As Will Rogers would have said, "There is no such thing as a free variable.""

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

"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."

"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."

"We are on the verge: Today our program proved Fermat's next-to-last theorem."

"Computer : a million morons working at the speed of light."

"If you give someone a program, you will frustrate them for a day; if you teach them how to program, you will frustrate them for a lifetime."

"MS-DOS, an OS originally designed for a microprocessor that modern kitchen appliances would sneer at."

"INSERT DISK THREE' ? But I can only get two in the drive !"

"Anyone who has lost track of time when using a computer knows the propensity to dream, the urge to make dreams come true and the tendency to miss lunch."

"It is not about bits, bytes and protocols, but profits, losses and margins."

"This is something we're very committed to, it's something that I think people are underestimating right now as they've seen some of the dot-com promises not come through. I think they're missing the fact that the basic technology is moving…"

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

"I'm a great believer in new technology and I think new technology is very scary for newspaper companies."

"Macintosh computer are easy to use. It's also easy to stick your hand in a wood chipper."

"How could this be a problem in a country where we have Intel and Microsoft?"

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

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

"A complex system that works is invariably found to have evolved from a simple system that worked."

"The eleventh commandment was "Thou Shalt Compute" or "Thou Shalt Not Compute" - I forget which."

"The most important computer is the one that rages in our skulls and ever seeks that satisfactory external emulator. The standarization of real computers would be a disaster - and so it probably won't happen."

"If we continue to develop our technology without wisdom or prudence, our servant may prove to be our executioner."

"The modern computer hovers between the obsolescent and the nonexistent."

"In a 5 year period we get one superb programming language. Only we can't control when the 5 year period will be."

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

"They say if you play a Microsoft CD backwards, you hear satanic messages. Thats nothing, cause if you play it forwards, it installs Windows."

"Back up my hard disk ? I can't find the reverse switch !"

"Programmers are tools for converting caffeine into code."

"The Internet may fairly be regarded as a never-ending worldwide conversation. The government may not, through the , interrupt that conversation... As the most participatory form of mass speech yet developed, the Internet deserves the highest protection from governmental intrusion...…"

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